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Where does beach sand come from?
When you walk barefoot on a beach, you have billions of tiny grains beneath your feet. Soft, warm, sometimes sticky, these ...
The annual Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic grew out of an event held in 2000, when the U.S. Mint hired local master sand sculptor Greg Grady to replicate the new design for a New ...
San Clemente wants to hang on to its beach town status, but coastal erosion over the years has cut off public access in some areas. A sand replenishment project seeks to reverse that.
The sand being dredged from the Atlantic Ocean Channel in Norfolk for Virginia Beach Oceanfront’s beach replenishment is too fine and discolored. As seen Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Stephen M ...
Morgan Rudluff of California works on a sculpture at the Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Revere on July 22, 2022. (Sophie Park for The Boston Globe) By Natalie Gale.
About 950,000 cubic yards of sand will be deposited between 15th and 45th streets before the project moves on to Croatan Beach. As seen Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (Stephen M. Katz / The Virginian-Pilot) ...
More than a dozen sand sculptures have taken over Revere Beach for the Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival this weekend. Celebrating its 20th year, the festival will last from ...
San Clemente has finished a sand replenishment project at North Beach, a months-long effort to help widen a stretch of eroded coastline. The project, which kicked off in late July, delivered ...
Two of the beach’s most popular activities aim to revive hurricane-damaged spirits. Kite festivals are popular on Treasure Island Beach, like this one from 2012, and so are sand sculpting ...