Jan 13th: The great thing about this blog is that none of you have been to Waimate so I can show you and tell you about so many different things and you will soon be experts (there's not a lot here!). These are the "famous" concrete silos. These are Waimate's most well-known feature, it seems. When you drive in from the south they are the first thing you see, as they lie at the south end of the main street, Queen Street.
They were built in 1921, are 115 feet tall and can hold 3200 tons of wheat. UNFORTUNATELY they mixed the concrete up wrong and so they did not dry out properly and kept sweating, and it was 45 years before this was fixed! Read and remember - I might test you on it later!
To celebrate Christmas the tops have been draped with red light bulbs that seem to swirl around the top of the towers. Not sure why they're still going in the middle of January, but none of the decorations have been taken down in the main street either.
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