As a kid, we all loved going to the beach. It brings back a lot of memories.

Mom or dad give us that little set of plastic buckets shaped like something, a castle or a seahorse, what have you. You pack it with wet sand, flip it upside down, jiggle the bucket free aaaaaaAand BAM! Castle.

When I was in elementary school, somebody came to the playground and made a 7-foot dolphin in the sand box, but that didn’t have anything on these!

1-Alien Vs Bender

These figures are by award-winning sand sculptor, Carl Jara.

2-Flea Circus

I thought this pug art (called Flea Circus) was a painting until I noticed the woman (sand sculptress, Susanne Ruseler) in the corner of the photo.

Check out the details of this flea.

3-Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge and Swiss Clockwork

This sand sculpture is my favorite. Anybody could duplicate Eiffel’s tower; others have done it. But sculpting it into twisty turneys lines and throwing in the inner workings of a pocket watch… suddenly my interest in the French icon is reborn.