Mandurah doesn't have a basketball team, but if they did, they wouldn't be called the Mandurah Giants, because something has already claimed that title.

According to the Mandurah Tourism Website, The Giants of Mandurah are a creation by Dutch artist Thomas Dambo. The art installation is in place until November 2023, with the exception of one instalment which sadly was set on fire and completely destroyed. Rather than visitors just seeing each giant in sequence on a map, 5 of them are loosely identified by the best place to park nearby (with the exception of one Perth city based location), each with a clue to the location of the last one.

SANTI IKTO


Located in Halls Head, we park up, walk on the 650m sealed path and arrive at the giant bearded Santi Ikto. It's located slightly off the path but there is no disguising it.

SEBA'S SONG


This one is in the suburb of Wannanup, like the theme of several, is positioned to look out onto the water. The downside with this one though is that it is so positioned that the best photos are only possible with a superzoom, or a boat.

VIVI CIRKELSTONE


This one is located in Wannaup, and starts at this car park. If you look at the brochure, it wont tell you where it is, because not long after we saw it, somebody went and set it on fire, completely destroying it.

LITTLE LUI


A little further up north from the others, adjacent to Marlee Reserve, after searching for about 45mins in the scorching heat we found Little Lui.

We actually never went to the city to see the one located in Subiaco, so we just skipped to the final secret giant in the super secret location that we definitely didn't google for, but have actually been to before. In fact the car park for this one is at Lake Clifton at the Thrombolites.

JYTTES HYTTE


You park up at the car park and instead of walking towards to Thrombolites, we headed north on the part gravel sandy path through many many threatening spiders and their webs, and even between them and the flying death monsters, it was worth the effort to get to this giant.

It's a bit of an effort to get down there, and it's a real shame one of them has been destroyed, but it's worth going down and having a look.