Hello Koalas Sculpture Trail Port Macquarie
Located all over Port Macquarie and its surrounding districts on the NSW mid-north coast, the Hello Koalas Sculpture Trail is a fun way to find your way around town. With many businesses and attractions sponsoring one or more of the sculptures it’s also a great way to make finding them more fun.
Each sculpture is hand-painted by Australian artists, featuring environmental, wellbeing, heritage or cultural designs.
We had fun finding them around town because they are often painted to fit it with the business that sponsors them. The koala outside the courthouse is a convict, while the ones at the Glasshouse Arts and Visitor is Lady Lola the Dancing Koala.
Hello Koalas Gift Shop
Located at Shop 16, 10 Bellbowrie Street in Port Macquarie, the Hello Koalas Gift Shop had around 17 koala sculptures waiting to find a home. This was a great visit, with lots of photos taken and souvenirs bought.
Here we also learned that they advocate to raise awareness of the importance of protecting our koalas and environment. As part of the national organisation Arts and Health Australia, funds raised from projects and events are distributed among essential environmental causes.
It’s an excellent way to promote the town, with large local population of koalas while raising awareness of the koalas’ plight. Threatened by land clearing for roads and houses, vehicle strikes, dog attacks, disease, drought and climate change, koalas face an uncertain future. The recent bushfires highlighted the dangers that koalas face.
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Ah they are all so cute ! When I was a kid I always loved Koala Bears, we don’t have them in Canada. When I was very young, I wanted to have a Kangaroo and Koala Bear farm when I grew up lol. I don’t know what I was going to do with them but when you’re 7 you don’t think that far ahead. Toronto did this years ago only they used Moose. They are all wonderful but Lachlan, Tully and Lady Lola stood out a little for me. I really enjoyed the photos, thank you.
You could always turn the farm into a zoo! The variety in how they were decorated was great. It’s a great way to promote a location based on their wildlife whether it’s koalas or moose.
Adorable!
They’re great aren’t they and so colourful.
What a great idea to have all these statues of the cute Koalas raising awareness of their plight. I have a few favourites here – Olly The Blue Eyed Boy and Koala Noir are beautiful! And the way they are positioned … it looks like “ready, steady, go” 😉.
They are all wonderfully colourful and really do help promote the plight of the koala. Thankyou for reading.
Fabulous artwork and idea. Thanks for sharing. Allan
Thank you for reading. Pleased that you liked the koalas. They are really colourful and each one is unique
This definitely caught my attention. Thanks Anita
Thanks for reading, pleased that you liked it