Come August the excitement is almost tangible as everybody is counting the days till the Ekka! The Ekka is the Royal Brisbane Exhibition or show and is an annual event.

It is held at the RNA Exhibition Grounds and runs for 10 whole days! It is such a feature on the Brisbane calendar that we even have a public holiday during this time known as “People’s Day”.

But what can you expect to find at the Ekka? There is the ever popular showbag pavilion, the thrills of Sideshow Alley, agricultural produce and livestock, flowers, dog shows, homemade cakes, jams, wood chopping and so much more. There is also an array of fun and insightful educational exhibitions like the channel 9 studio.

We particularly enjoyed the new born lambs, the science centre and getting right among the farm animals. The Ekka is great value for families. We would also recommend the Ekka Adventure Trail (EAT) kits. It is a fun way to keep the children motivated to walk from exhibit to exhibit and fabulous to sample so many products.  More photos.

The following fun facts are shared on the official Ekka website about this year’s show:

• Dairy Farmers broke their daily sales record for the $1.00 coon toasties with 3,040 sold on Wednesday, beating the daily sales record of the Sydney Show.
• Event Coordinator Wayne James walked 146.6 kilometres (that’s 200,912 steps according to his stepometer!) • We sold 3,500 Ekka Adventure Trail kits.
• Almost 8,000 people followed the Ekka Learning Trail.
• 4,000 fireman calendars sold. • 1,000 punnets of strawberries were sold in the Agricultural Hall. Strawberry Sundaes have used 6.5 tonnes of strawberries.
• In the Sunny Queen Little Miracles Newborn Corner – people have returned 5 or 6 times a day to check in on the progress of labour.
• 150 chicks were hatched.
• There were 450 animals in the RACQ Animal Nursery – longest visit to the nursery was 3.5 hours.
• 14 models did 54 parades over 7 days / 100 outfits in total / 5,292 outfit changes