LOOKING FOR FUN IN THE SAND!!

Remember as a child (okay as an adult too!) you loved to build with sand using your plastic bucket and your little plastic shovel. Now, remember how that plastic shovel always broke?? As a world champion creating a sand sculpture, your shovel never breaks and as a champion you would have “state of the art” tools to use. We travelled to Fort Myers last weekend to visit friends and the American Sand Sculpting Championship happening right on the beach. This was spectacular!! We are used to Snow Sculpting and wonderful Ice Sculptures that happen in Ottawa in the cold of February during our Winterlude Festivities on the Rideau Canal. These sand sculptures happen in phases. The designers have 20 hours to create their sand sculpture and then they are judged. A Canadian sand “artist” was there and she happened to be a 4 time World Champion. We felt lucky to see her at work.

Please see all the pictures but they do not do justice to the oohing and aawing everyone was doing as they wandered around looking at the creations happening.

Today's theme was WINTER WONDERLAND

Of Course there are many sponsors involved for an event this large!
This is just a sampling.

Notice how tall this is and all the detail!

This is our Canadian from Ontario, work still in progress, she was
working on the other side, all sculptures are 360 degrees

Dragons, Winter Wonderland Creatures?
Lots of detail

I got this one off google! I thought I would share, isn't it awesome!

 The world’s tallest sandcastle measured 49.55 feet high and was completed on July 4, 2007 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and sponsored by Best Western of the Carolinas.