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Monday 25 March 2024

Monday Murals - Sea Shells and the Pinnacles in Cervantes

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami

Photos taken during our trip to the coastal town of Cervantes (about 2h north of Perth) in October 2023.

We stayed at the beautiful RAC Cervantes Holiday Park, and just at the entrance there was a cafe called "Sea Shells Cafe". This old caravan advertised their business. Isn't it so cute?



This camping van looks very cheerful and reminded me of a field of Spring flowers.



By the beach, the public toilets had this mural of the Pinnacles, the rock formations at the Nambung Desert National park.

            



In a plaque by the mural is written:

The mural explores the duality of the landscape which surrounds the Cervantes area.
Central to the composition is a Wrasse fish which can be found in the Indian ocean. This stretch of coast is lettered with shipwrecks, therefore divers are pictured observing a wreck below, with the town being named after a ship lost in 1844. The darkness of the water emphasises a further sense of the unknown and intrigue.
The Pinnacles which are located in the nearby Nambung National Park frame the underwater scene.
The saturation of the pinnacles has been increased to reference the alien like nature of their shapes.
Cervantes main industry is lobster fishing, and a lobster is positioned taking refuge behind one of the pinnacles.
The mural was made possible by the Cervantes Art Committee, with artist Jarrad Martyn and the children of the Cervantes and Badgingarra Primary schools. Painted in 2017





31 comments:

  1. ...Sami, thanks for reminding me of Maui. This art would right at home in Maui. Thanks for hosting and I wish you a wonderful week.

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    1. Yes, I'm sure this would look right at home in Hawaii. Thanks Tom

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  2. You found some colorful murals close to the sea. I'm fascinated by that part of Australia. There seem to be so many interesting things to see.

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    1. Thanks Sharon. There are many beautiful things around the coast of Australia.

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  3. That was very enjoyable and I'd like to visit that area someday. Sorry my link posted twice. Aloha friend. Have a good week

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  4. Beautiful murals! I would like to see the Pinnacles and National Park.
    Happy Sunday, enjoy your day and have a great new week!

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    1. Thank you Eileen, the Pinnacles are fascinanting.

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  5. Combining images of the desert and the sea floor is an original choice. Nice murals.
    Thanks for hosting.
    best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  6. Love it - esp the combi! Being stuck behind that in traffic would make you smile!

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    1. Thanks Lydia, I'm sure it would brighten up anyone's mood :)

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  7. Some of these vans are painted wonders on the boies

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  8. She sees sea shells by the seaside :))
    Boa semana

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  9. Amazing mural works.
    Thanks a lot for hosting.

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  10. Oh, Sami...
    We had ALL the time in 1999 and all we did was getting our windscreen getting fixed in Cervantes - we had no idea about the shipwrecks and what else to explore!
    Nor did Ingo have lobster...
    We missed so much as there was "no internet" back then, all we had was a paper-copy of Australia´s Lonely Planet. Yet, of course, I have to be thankful we could go at all...
    Nice to learn more now.
    Cute caravan indeed. And just yesterday I finished a 1970´s wall hanging I got in Madeley that just reminds me of your flowery campervan there :-)

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    1. The internet makes it all so much easier nowadays. We can find all the info beforehand. But I've been to Margaret River at least a dozen times and had never been to Hamelin Bay (just 36km away), and never knew about the stingrays either...

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  11. The sea shells remind me of holidays so perfect for the location.

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    1. Thanks Pat, they go perfectly with holidays by the sea :)

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  12. This is quite delightful, Sami!

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  13. Interesting story. That van almost gave me a flashback to the 70s.

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    1. It would fit right in, in the 70's for sure. Thanks Linda

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  14. That van is so colourful.

    Nice to see the murals.

    All the best Jan

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