Patrons visiting Paradise Adventure Fun Park play mini golf, with a backdrop of this British Columbia ocean wildlife mural. The orcas and eagles in this landscape mural show some of the animals living near Parksville on Vancouver Island.
The mural “Paradise BC” is of a BC ocean ecosystem with wildlife on land and underwater. By painting a split screen artwork above and below water, a variety of animals can be seen, including killer whales, bald eagles, sitka deer, chinook salmon, Canadian geese, an otter and a seal.
Canada geese, painted swimming in the ocean, enter the BC seascape mural. While so common they now take advantage of areas used by humans, at the start of the 20th century Canada geese were at risk.
An orca dives underwater into a green emerald sea, hunting bright red chinook salmon, in this BC ocean wildlife mural. While a bald eagle looks down on the painting, real bald eagles live a stone's throw from this Parksville, Vancouver Island mural.
I painted a sea otter surveying the ocean mural from her corner of the artwork, floating in bull kelp to keep from drifting in currents, something I often do when snorkelling. Sea otters are a keystone species for protecting kelp forests, as they eat urchins and invertebrates that eat kelp.
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