Sand Sculptures and Murals

Well the art here on Vancouver Island just keeps on comin' so I shall keep on posting.

These are professional quality sand sculptures on Qualicum Beach. It is a contest, of course. Then they spray the sculptures with water based glue so they will last for a few weeks. Very cool. They are at the beach but not on the beach so waves won't wash them away.
 Oh- and I added one beach shot because the beach is kind of amazing. Very very wide beach on an estuary so the water is very shallow. You can walk a quarter of a mile our and still be up to your ankles. And if you look in the distance you can see steep mountains on the mainland of British Columbia- with snow and glaciers showing. Very dramatic.

There are two in this photo- one in the foreground, one in the background

The theme of this one is kids playing in cardboard boxes. 

These two pictures are part of the same sculpture. The
first is three men sitting around eating chicken wings.
This section above is two chickens without wings
begging for spare change. They have sand bandaids
where their wings should be. 

And here are some murals from Chermanis, Vancouver Island, a small town that reinvented itself (after the lumber business faded in importance) as an arty community with lots of historical murals.