The Sandcastle Lady

John 8, Alexandra 11, and Julia 11, from Rockville, MD, and their castle today.

Steele 9, Bella 9, and Fenner 6 – from Wilmington, DE, with their deep tunnel castle.

Even spending time with kids, I did manage to build a castle today.

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Today, my challenge was to finish a castle, and be OFF the beach by 3:30pm. Only a dinner with Brendan, Julie and Maura, at Irish Eyes Pub & Restaurant could be incentive enough.
I did finish in time!
What a great surprise to see a new ‘sandcastle neighbor’ set up right next to my castle ruin (trampled last night.)

Fenner 6 and Cecilia 7, friends “since they were zero” from Wilmington, DE, with their “We love sandcastles” sign

If you click on my castle, you will see the Kalmar Nykel with its sails furled, in the bay, to the right of the sailboat.

Friends Justin 7, from New Jersey and Trevor 8, from New York, with their drip decorated castle.

What a beautiful day on the beach today! The Northeast wind was still blowing, but not nearly as strong as yesterday. SO happy to see my old friend Kira 8 (from 4 years ago!) and Maddy 9, and their huge castle and village.

A side view of my castle, with a bit of the upper rock wall

my castle today, built in the water, because of the extremely long high tide Friends John and Wesley, both 8 years old, from Rockville, MD, and their team castle. 6 year old Grant and his mom, Lauren (a Sandra Bullock look-a-like) and their wonderful castle, complete with village houses and great trees! (Lauren taught me her tree trick (make a lump before dripping the tree.)

Adrienne 11, and Angelina 11, from New York and Maryland, with their Vesuvius volcano and the village below.

Ben 10 years old, from Pennsylvania, was busy building, with great ideas and really interesting villages today.

I was able to finish my castle today, even with lots of kids and castles.

There were no school age kids on the beach, and not many people at all. The wind was pretty strong; the turbine windmill was not running (is it because the wind is too strong?) Here’s my castle today – a little bigger on the same spot. No trees, and only a small village today, because there was a little thunder and distant lightning (I’m off the beach as soon as I hear or see it!)

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Riley (will be 6 on Aug 25) giving this new castle a thumbs up. This one was started from scratch – hopefully, will be able to build upon this one tomorrow.

I had a shutter malfunction today – but you can still see the castle.

it was so nice to build alongside yesterday’s castle

I love making tunnels through the castles.

the side view shows a bit more

another side of the castle.