Australia may be suffering its worst drought - or the Big Dry - in a century, but that's not stopping two towns in Queensland vying for the title of the country's wettest place.
The towns of Tully and Babinda are 90km from each other on the coast of northern Queensland, in sugar cane country which once supported dense tropical rainforests. Both towns are distinctly soggy, receiving more than four metres of rainfall a year, but the argument over which is the wettest has been raging for years.
Now Tully has decided to stick the boot in - literally. Next month, the townsfolk will proudly unveil the world's largest wet-weather boot, in a gesture which they hope will once and for all establish their credentials as Australia's wettest spot.
The A$30,000 (HK$139,000) boot, which will be painted gold, will be six metres along the sole and eight metres tall, and adorned with a four-metre-long green tree frog.
Made of concrete and fibreglass, it will feature an internal spiral staircase which will lead to a viewing platform.
The townsfolk say the idea is to seduce tourists from the nearby highway, and revive Tully's flagging economic fortunes. Global sugar prices have taken a hammering over the past few years, and Tully is a town in decline.