Santi Ikto

Halls Head / Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia

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A large recycled-wood Thomas Dambo sculpture on the coastal trail at Halls Head, part of the Giants of Mandurah outdoor exhibition.

Parking on site
650 m walk

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PLAN YOUR VISIT

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Santi Ikto

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32.54278° S, 115.68673° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

Santi Ikto sits on a coastal ridge at Halls Head, and reaching her is a 1.3-kilometre return walk from Calypso Road.

She is one of the six Giants of Mandurah, Thomas Dambo's recycled-wood sculptures hidden through the Peel region, and Visit Mandurah lists her among the trail's set. A 2026 City of Mandurah coastal-planning document confirms the sculpture remains installed on the ridge – which is a useful and unusual form of verification, since planning documents record what is physically present rather than what tourism material would like to be.

The coastal siting sets her apart from the others. Little Lui rests in bushland at Marlee Reserve; the secret sixth, Jyttes Hytte, is hidden behind a puzzle. Santi Ikto is on the ocean side, exposed to salt air and onshore wind, which for a timber sculpture is a considerably harsher posting.

That exposure is part of Dambo's method rather than a flaw in it. The Giants are built from reclaimed and scrap timber and are expected to weather, grey and eventually decay back into the landscape – so a coastal ridge simply runs the clock faster.

The trail as a whole is the interesting achievement. A regional Western Australian city commissioned an internationally known Danish artist to hide six large sculptures across its wetlands, bushland and coast, and turned the search into the attraction. It has drawn attention well beyond the state.

Grade 3 means a formed track with some gradient – a real walk rather than a stroll.

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PRACTICAL

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Visit Mandurah currently lists Santi Ikto as one of the six Giants, with a 1.3 km return Grade 3 trail from Calypso Road. A 2026 City of Mandurah coastal-planning document confirms the sculpture remains installed on the coastal ridge.

ACCESS

Use the official Calypso Road trail start and navigate to the independently mapped public car park there. From the car park, follow the Giants of Mandurah route roughly 650 metres to Santi Ikto; the walk includes short steep sections.

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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

3.4 km away

TRANSPARENCY

Sources & research

City of Mandurah CHRMAP 2026

City of Mandurah · recorded 2026-08-22

Government

Visit Mandurah – Giants of Mandurah

Visit Mandurah · recorded 2026-08-22

Tourism

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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.

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