Little Lui

Lakelands / Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia

Public art

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Checked by Project Big Things · Aug 2026

This Big Thing is recorded as still being here.

A giant recycled-wood Thomas Dambo sculpture resting among the bushland of Marlee Reserve, part of the Giants of Mandurah trail.

Before you stop

No toilets or drinking water at the trailhead; wear closed footwear and carry water/insect repellent for the walk in.

Pedestrian access

Private to your Passport.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

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Little Lui

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32.48433° S, 115.77028° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

You have to walk 1.8 kilometres into the bush before you see him, and that is the entire point.

Little Lui is one of the Giants of Mandurah, a trail of large-scale wooden sculptures by the Danish artist Thomas Dambo, built from recycled timber and hidden in the landscape around the Peel region. Dambo's stated vision is to hide something so big within nature that people must seek it out to find it – the work is designed to require exploration rather than reward a car park.

That inverts the entire logic of the Big Thing. A roadside giant exists to be impossible to miss; a Dambo giant exists to be missable, and the walk is part of the sculpture. It is a genuinely different proposition, and the reason the Giants have drawn international attention to a Western Australian regional city.

Little Lui rests among the bushland of Marlee Reserve, reached by a 3.6-kilometre return Grade 2 trail from Black Swan Lake. Grade 2 means an easy walk on a formed track – this is not an expedition, but it is a commitment of an hour or so.

The recycled timber matters too. Dambo builds from scrap and reclaimed wood, so the giants are constructed from material that would otherwise be waste, and they weather and eventually decay in place. They are not permanent in the way a fibreglass object is; they are closer to something that has grown there and will eventually go back.

Visit Mandurah lists him as an active Giant on the trail.

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PRACTICAL

Plan your stop

WHAT TO EXPECT

Visit Mandurah currently lists Little Lui as an active Giant reached by a 3.6 km return Grade 2 trail from Black Swan Lake. Current mapping independently fixes the sculpture location in Marlee Reserve.

ACCESS

Start from the Black Swan Lake Carpark at the Lake Valley Drive/Herdsman Street corner in Lakelands, a formal public carpark with ACROD bays independently confirmed by two current tourism guides. Follow the Giants trail (about 3.6 km return, 45 minutes) through the bushland reserve to reach Little Lui. No toilets or water on site; wear closed shoes.

COMMUNITY

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WHAT'S NEXT

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Jyttes Hytte

Mandurah / Peel, Western Australia

The secret sixth recycled-wood Thomas Dambo Giant in the Mandurah–Peel trail.

Public art

6.9 km away

TRANSPARENCY

Sources & research

Mapcarta / OpenStreetMap – Little Lui

Mapcarta / OpenStreetMap · recorded 2026-08-22

Community

Thomas Dambo – Giants of Mandurah

Thomas Dambo · recorded 2026-08-22

Official

Visit Mandurah – Giants of Mandurah

Visit Mandurah · recorded 2026-08-22

Tourism

What we're still checking

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

Black Swan Lake Carpark is the official Little Lui trail start, but its precise lawful vehicle-arrival coordinate has not yet been independently map-checked.

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