Is building an impregnable sand castle on your family’s summer bucket list? Ted Siebert of The Sand Sculpture Co. (sandsculpting.com) can dig you out of the holes in your technique. Siebert, who wrote ...

A sandcastle sculpture, which sits on the beach in Bal Harbour. Rodolfo Roman For the Miami Herald Tourists and residents walking on Bal Harbour’s beach last weekend encountered a sand castle building ...

Volkswagen Beetle. Divers ensnared in the tentacles of a giant octopus. A medieval castle with a mote. They look different, but every sand sculpture starts out the same way — a big pile of wet sand.

Next time you're at the beach, take a look around: You may spy a mermaid with long, tangled hair or a dragon with pointy ears and flared nostrils. If you get lucky, you'll come across an actual castle ...

Janel Hawkins is the founder and owner of Sand Castle University, a sand sculpture business based in Gulf Shores, Ala. The team's creations can take anywhere from five hours to three days to build, ...

GREENWICH — In keeping with a summer tradition, artists of all ages flocked to Greenwich Point Park on Saturday to dig into the sand and create sea creatures, fantasies and castles. The annual ...

As professional sand sculptor Lucinda Wierenga was at work on her 8-foot-tall, instrument-themed sand castle, a kid came by and called it the “House of Rock,” which is how the award-winning sand ...

Rick Mungeam's Let the Light In took third place in the Solo competition at the 2021 Crystal Classic Sand Sculpting Festival on Siesta Key. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst The Sarasota area is a downtown ...

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“Humboldt High Fortress” by Team Maximum Wattage has won “Best of Show” honors in the annual Friends of the Dunes Sand Sculpture Festival. “‘Best of Show’ was chosen because it checks off all of the ...