Sea Creature Sculptures

A collection of sea creature sculptures from around the world.

From my sculpture tour in Puerto Vallarta I learned that this seahorse was the first sculpture added to the city’s Malecon – it comes from the sculptor’s childhood dream of being able to ride a seahorse (Mexico). 
Seahorse sculpture on the Malecon in Puerto Vallarta, a beach resort on Mexico's Pacific coastFish-shaped bike stand in Ballard, Washington. Fish-shaped bike stand in Ballard, WashingtonThe ‘Big Fish’ was listed as a point of interest in Belfast but from a distance I wasn’t super-impressed. It wasn’t until I got up close and realized that the mosaic tiles were full of details from old newspapers, paintings and documents containing the history of Belfast.
The 'Big Fish' mosaic sculpture on Belfast's Maritime TrailFrom Ireland, UK, comes some Guinness advertising: ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle’. This is an animatron so if you’re there you can see it bicycling away!Guinness Advertising:A Woman needs a Man like a Fish Needs a BicycleA fish gate in Ucluelet, Canada. The home it was guarding is a typical shingled house left over from the fifties, with driftwood (in its own way a sea creature) sculptures and old weathered boats parked in the trees.A fish gate in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, CanadaSculpture of a mermaid on the Coast of Holland. Mermaids have to rate as the most popular sea creature to have a sculpture made of them! Mermaid on the Coast of HollandAs far as I know Singapore harbour is the only place to have a ‘Merlion’ though. Singapore legendary symbol, the Merlion fountain sculptureAn artsy jellyfish at Sooke Harbour House in Sooke on Vancouver Island, Canada.An artsy jellyfish at Sooke Harbour House in Sooke on Vancouver Island, CanadaStrange carved fish on a temple in Hoi An, Vietnam.Strange Carved Fish on a Temple in Hoi An, VietnamThree salmon sculptures, one garbage-encrusted, one wearing a gas mask and skin diving suit and one a spawning Sockeye salmon in La Conner, Washington, USA.
Some salmon sculptures in La Conner, WashingtonCarnlough on the Coastal Causeway of Ireland, UK.A wall decorated with fish in Carnlough, a small town on the Coastal Causeway route in Northern Ireland, UKA Bill Reid sculpture of a raven presiding over the ‘birth of mankind’ from a clam shell, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. A Bill Reid sculpture of a raven presiding over the 'birth of mankind' at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver, CanadaA sailfish statue at dusk in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.The sailfish statue at dusk in Puerto Escondido, MexicoMore of the Friendly Friday Challenge: Sea Creatures.

 

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