Colbinabbin carer Sami Smith-Andrews and her special needs daughter Sheridan first saw Wally on a concrete wall on Nolan Street several years ago. 

“The first time we saw him was weird,” Ms Smith-Andrews said. 

“You grow up looking for Wally in books – you don’t imagine you’re going to see him somewhere on a wall in Bendigo.

“But then we made a game of it.”

Ms Smith-Andrews and her daughter drove past the wall frequently to see her son who lives in White Hills. 

“Every time I’d say, ‘where’s Wally?’ and she’d go, ‘there he is’ and we’d all laugh,” Ms Smith-Andrews said.

“But then last week I said, ‘where’s Wally?’ … and he was gone.” 

Graffiti remains on the wall and there’s no trace of Wally being painted over Ms Smith-Andrews said.

“Which makes me think he must have been a sticker,” she said.

“I don’t know if someone has moved him as part of a game and put him up somewhere else, or whether they’ve taken him home.

“It does make me wish though, that over all those years, I’d stopped to take a photo.”

Wally was about three-foot tall and last seen on a concrete wall on Nolan Street near the intersection with Napier Street. 

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