Re: 'Castles' made of sand

10/10/11 - posted by W.M.

Thank you Paul for the link to the Ocean Beach Bulletin story for this event. Lots more great photos of these sand masterpieces. I do applaud the cause and that the funds raised from this "sand blast" event help support art programs in the schools.

In remembering back to the days when I/we were kids, the "art" of building sand castles was something never taught to us in class or even by our parents (at least not mine). Basically I saw other kids doing it so I would start by building a "mound" in the wet sand and pretend it was a castle or whatever which usually got washed away as the tide came in or by someone stomping on it a short time later. I got a little more creative after that using buckets and/or large paper cups as molds and would often dig a trench around it with my hands to serve as a moat when the tide water first reached up to it, but of course it wasn't long after that when the flood gates opened up and again the whole structure was leveled. I didn't care because it was fun as well as a game of imagination and pretending the structure was a "fortress" sometimes built within a hand-piled wall of sand around it as "protection". Sometimes destroying it was as much fun as building it anyway, it just didn't take as long...haha. And after it was all over, I too devoured my fair share of gritty PB&J SANDwiches...hmmmm...that's aptly named, don't you think?

Ok, now it's time to move on for some skidboarding, frisbee throwing, and looking at the girls clad in those "itsy bitsy, teenie weenie, yellow polka dot bikinis" (but I'll settle for white, green, pink, red, orange, black, brown, or blue ones too...hahaha).