Fitness is also a key to sand castle success—one sculpture requires hundreds of trips to the water source and back Because of the buckets ... wood to a bit of flat metal and created a tool ...

Some of us are happy at the beach with our overturned sand buckets creating various mounds. Dig a trench around the sand mounds, and voila! A castle and ... the details, a metal spatula like ...

Show us your stuff! Put on your artist’s beret, grab your shovel and bucket, and get over to Crown Memorial State Beach on ...

B rought to You By is our series about all the stuff that’s become part of the culture and of the economy. Where did they come from and who thought of them? Sandcastles have been around a while.

Next time you go to the beach, instead of building a sand castle or a sand coat for your napping spouse, perhaps you can try something a little more intricate like this. On a much, much smaller ...

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