Author: Lynn McKeown

It was a great day on the beach today – built a bigger castle; and new kids came and built, but –
my phone AND my camera got wet somehow, in the bottom of my bag. I have both the camera and the cell phone in a big bowl of rice. Hopefully, the rice will do its magic.

Ava 6 1/2 and brother Konnor 3 3/4, from Harrington and Azina 11 and brother Tavo 7 3/4, from West Chester worked together on a group castle. Then Azina did one by herself, and the third new castle was a big one that Jamie Lombardo, 16, from Media, PA organized with Azina and Tavo. I managed to carve and finish my castle before it was time for supper.

Adam 10 years old, from Shorewood, Wisconsin and his cousin, Alex 6 years old, from Baltimore, Maryland worked together well as a team, building a great castle today.
The first picture shows their castle in the foreground, with mine behind it. The next shows mine, with the Kalmar Nyckel out in the bay.
Hopefully this will be the start of many castles on the Market Street Beach!

I’ve been dreaming of sandcastles – and will be there soon! Hope to see you!

When I got to the beach, I found that my yesterday’s castle start had become a community Art project! Sometime after I left, and before I got there, someone had placed horseshoe crabs going up the mountain and into the castle; and had reeds and feathers inside the castle! It made me laugh outloud! I took a photo of the community project, and then one of my finished castle, and then took a photo looking back.
It was a great summer; so many families and kids and lots of memories. I’ll look forward to building in 2014.

It was great to see Greg, a 7 year old, from Baltimore, here in Lewes, visiting his Poppop. Greg built a wonderful castle, with lots of stairs. (I wish I had gotten his picture, but he was flying a kite with his Dad, and then went home.)

My castle was only a starter, again. But maybe tomorrow I can finish…

We had very strong wind from the North East today, and I didn’t get up to the beach until 2:30 (had started packing up at the beach house.)
But a start is better than not building! I will be going home on Monday, September 30th, and don’t know if I will be back to build on Saturday or Sunday. Hope so, though!

The weather changed, with rain last night, and brought strong North East winds and rough surf. Pretty chilly on the beach – not many there, and those that were, were wrapped up in blankets!

It warmed up to 71, and I decided I should get back to carving. I’m so glad I did – it is good for me to be near the water – very rejuvenating. I know my blood pressure drops when I carve, I get so relaxed.

So happy that it warmed up a bit today, and I was able to get down to the beach and build something. Hopefully, I’ll be able to add a village and do some ‘finishing’ things tomorrow.