$25,000 Christmas Tree -

The Whim Creek Hotel was set to have its own entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Not for being the hotel knocked down the most times by cyclones (although it might just hold that record too) but for its unusual (and expensive) Christmas tree.

The tree was created when Pat and Rose O’Dwyer owned the hotel and it consisted of a metal frame draped with chains of ring pull tops from cans of beer.

The tree was 2 metres high and a metre in diameter.

Why would it be a candidate for the Guinness Book of Records? Well those old style ring pull tops were discontinued so it will never be copied and it took $25,000 worth of beer cans to get enough ring pulls to make the tree.

Word has it that it only took two years for the thirsty drinkers of Whim Creek to collect the ring pulls.

Sadly we can’t confirm whether it actually made it in to the book of records and we have no idea what might have happened to their rather unusual Christmas tree.

Pictures from John Barnett's Discovery WA, 1986, Aspara Publications.

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