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A large fish sculpture at Canning Reserve, originally created for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony and later placed in the reserve.
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Big Seychelles Blenny – Avondale Heights
This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
Site-level location · 37.7685° S, 144.8716° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Seventy-two fish sculptures were made for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, one for each competing nation. Canning Reserve got the Seychelles blenny.
That detail transforms the whole Games dispersal this catalogue has been tracking. The dolphin fish at Tooradin, the big-eyed scad at Edenhope, the Koran angelfish at Pyramid Hill, the leatherback turtle at Narre Warren – and this – are not a handful of leftovers. They are survivors of a set of seventy-two, each representing a country, distributed across Victoria after the Games closed.
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PRACTICAL
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Current walking-map material tells visitors to notice the big fish on entering Canning Reserve, while specialist Commonwealth Games sculpture research identifies it as the Seychelles Blenny and places it permanently at the reserve.
ACCESS
Public park artwork. Use normal Canning Reserve access and approach on foot; the site location is park/site precision rather than an invented sculpture pin.
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