Giant Mural of Winter Installed on Beach Hotel

Beach-goers crossing the Memorial Causeway will be greeted by the sight of Winter the dolphin with her prosthetic tail jumping out of the water as the sun sets behind her.

The 10x50 mural was recently installed on the east side of Clearwater Beach’s newest tourist lodging, the Pier House 60, Clearwater Beach Marina Hotel. 

Some changes were . 

Officials with the beach hotel worked for more than a year with artists Silas “Beach” Clifton Gatewood III and Johnny “Castleseed” Schunck to create a purely Clearwater Beach image for the hotel.

They scrapped other designs because of issues with the city's stringent sign code and because a version looked too similar to a .