Gracing the walls of the South Padre Island Convention Centre is a huge mural done by the artist Wyland. To increase public awareness for all sea life (not just whales), he made it his goal to complete 100 such Whaling Walls throughout the world by the year 2011; currently, he's on number 84. His first mural was completed in 1981 at Laguna Beach, California. After much persistence, the city of South Padre Island convinced him to paint a Whaling Wall in their town, which he did in March 1994. He has murals all over the United States, as well as in Mexico, Canada, France, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
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