Janel Hawkins spends hours building intricate structures — and destroys them not long after. Such is the life of a professional sand castle builder. As the owner of Sand Castle University, she spends ...

There's a strange scene unfolding on Long Beach's National Beach as the sun begins to set. Adults and kids are furiously shoveling sand into piles, dumping buckets of seawater strategically onto the ...

Sand and water will take center stage on Aug. 5-6 at a sand castle carving competition in St. Helens, Oregon. Professional sand carvers from across the country are set to bring their skills and ...

CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. -- The beach is empty. It's 7:45 a.m. Along comes Matt Long and his wheelbarrow full of tools and buckets, ready to create magic on the sands of Coney Island. For the last 15 years, ...

GRAND HAVEN, MI -- Four grown men can make a better sand castle than all of the children in Michigan. Castle Grande, a Saturday event sponsored by the Grand Haven Chamber of Commerce brought a ...

Sand castle artist Frank Russo is in his own world when he's creating one of his sculptures -- even in a public place. "When I am building, everything else around me goes away," Russo says on a recent ...

As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...