Double post, my bad.
I was exploring with my mage and ended up here with just Slowfall and Door of Shadows so flying is not necessary!
looks like they changed the stone bird, doesn't have any eyes or feathers other than it's tail feathers now
Entrance to Pepe's shrine is 61.55, 7.00
A friend and myself Found Pepe. With some jumping, gliders and luck we found him. :D
Can confirm. Found using Cryptic Grips making sure it has this ability: Dimensional Translators at level 5/6 Cypher Research, players can also do this faster using their Venthyr ability Door of Shadows. Was not documenting my path but the grips allowed me to get up above the building/portal in the Sands area at /way 66.10, 20.73 / and work my way to the northwest following the sands and taking a trust fall towards a ball in the air. saw green and went towards it! Will post screen shot once I figure out how to link!/way 64.0, 3.7Found on 3.13.22 After 9.2 launch, honestly didn't even know about it and found it by accident. I just love to try and explore!
>> "This Pepe is not interactable..." <<I love Pepe. Love finding him. But it seems odd that such a shrine would be made without interaction possible. Just... weird.
I found it today while flying around. Came here to read up on it. My pepe statue has no face. Just a pack back on. Maybe because I haven't completely the last pepe achievement?
I found this in April by accident after getting really bored with the expansion. It felt wrong that they drew all these islands on the map for no reason, so I set out along the western edge to see if I could get anywhere. I was able to land on the very edge of a couple of them, but then I discovered tons of the giant orbs that were not on the map you could get to. Pretty neat place for mount selfies. I kept going around clockwise until I ended up on the invisible island and found the picnic. Unfortunately, I didn't find this post until later. It really seems like a missed opportunity for some cryptic puzzle. Anyway, like several others commented, I don't see the side feathers and face on the orbs. I have tried dancing and wearing Pepe, etc. to try to get something to happen, but I guess it is just for show.
Flying is not required to reach this location although you may want to bring a glider. Door of Shadows is enough to reach it though it takes a lot of patience for the cooldown.