A Man's Sand is his Castle

It is said that it takes a village to raise a child.  In this instance, it took a whole pile of children to raise a village.  A sandcastle village that is.

Eric, Kevin, Ethan, Alison, Amy, Carrie, Julia, Erik and Lucas all got into the act at one point or another...

It began as a small project, but seemed to be egged on to be bigger and better.  That's a nice plus about our beach and sand hill -- it offers plenty of scope for young architects.

I would have benefited from a large ladder to get the aerial view -- the kids created the words:

I (heart) BONDI VILLAGE at the top of our sand pile.  Pretty impressive.

Right at the water's edge, Hannah, Sydney and Quinn offered up their own 'ode to Bondi'.

And almost in the water itself,  Amy indulged in her very own private sand-pool castle, where she was, surrounded by her trusty Noodle Subjects, truly, Princess.

Sand, Water... Just Add Kids...

Along our 2000' of sandy beachfront, we've got one area by the main dock where there is a huge hill of sand. This draws kids like a magnet, and the most amazing works of art appear regularly. Today,I had the change to watch these junior engineers create their flooding moat construction. Everybody was having just too much fun... and yes, the water did make it all the way to the water's edge. The kids? Well, they made it to the water's edge, and beyond. After the sand construction exercise, it was off to the water trampoline!