Description / Inspiration

The marine life on Noah features:

• Humpback Whale ( front belly, right cheek and left and right of back)
• Southern Right Whale (top left leg)
• Minke Whale ( top right leg)
• Bottle nose dolphins (front left cheek, left hind leg, right side of back)
• Blue Swimmer crab ( Right foot)
• Eastern rock lobster ( left foot)
• Hasting River Oysters( left foot)
• School prawn ( left foot)
• Sea green turtle ( all turtles on sculpture)
• Gold band snapper ( left front leg)
• Kingfish ( right front leg)
• Broadbill swordfish ( right hind leg)
• Short tailed smooth stingray ( left top side of back)
• Australian Pelicans ( front & back sky)
• Cormorant (Small black birds on front & back )

Artist Biography

Kim Staples is an Australian Visual Artist, Art Tutor and Art Therapist who lives and works in Port Macquarie. In 2004 she founded Art of Life. Kim is committed to providing an art educational service to the community. Kim’s art courses reflect the needs of local individuals including youth groups, alzheimer’s sufferers, disabilities and other challenging conditions.

Kims mission is to support people to achieve, improve and develop healthy emotions through the arts.
She feels artistic expression is the key to one’s soul. Kim tries to reflect this in her artwork by connecting her inner world with her outer world. Her love of culture, nature, colour, texture and the unknown is captured in her diverse style of painting and sculpting.

Kim Staples has painted several marine paintings for Whalebone Wharf and now has created a special Hello Koalas sculpture called ‘Noah’, depicting marine and bird life around the Hastings River and Pacific Ocean.

Location Info

One of Port Macquarie’s premier restaurants with an emphasis on local seafood and produce, located alongside the Hastings River. Gorgeous water views with elegant pelicans and sometimes dolphins swimming by. Excellent wine list and an innovative menu echoing the culinary interests of its French / Australian owner, Joel Danet.

Recently Hello Koalas friends and family enjoyed a banquet menu and it was 12 out of 10 for food, wine and service!

Ample parking beside the restaurant along the riverside and there is a helipad opposite if you are arriving by helicopter.