The Winton Outback Festival Dunny Derby's reputation for quirkiness is about to go international.
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Among all the local teams taking part was a TV crew all the way from Iceland.
A team of five are filming for a travel show called Steindi-Con for Channel 2 in Iceland, which features six weird and wonderful events from the across the world, with the Icelandics getting involved where they go.
The show's producer Ingimar Gudbjartsson said they found the Outback Festival on Google.
"We were ooking for something different and a long way from home, Mr Gudbjartsson said. "You can cross oceans, take five planes and drive hundreds of kilometres to get here to really meet your neighbours."
Mr Gudbjartsson said the Outback Festival was surprisingly similar to Icelandic village festivals.
There is that real connection of our farming heritage and sense of fun and quirkiness," he said.
"It's so similar, where the populations of our towns more than double during festival celebrations."
The Icelandic team included Steinthor Hroar Steinthorsson - "Steindi" is the show's host, Halldor "Tony" Laxness Halldorsson who is an Icelandic poet whose grandfather is a Nobel prize winner in literature), director Ragnar Hansson, camera man August Jakobsson and producer Ingimar Gudbjartsson.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
