Sandcastles

When I was a kid we went to the beach and built sandcastles with our buckets and spades. The normal type you see at beaches everywhere, with a moat, shell decorations and maybe a flag fashioned from something you found. Then you waited until the sea reclaimed it all.

Sandcastle building for adults is a while different thing. 

The 4th New Zealand sandcastle competition was held at New Brighton yesterday, so we went for a drive to see.

Pretty clever - taking a load of this and turning it into something so amazing

 kinda puts my sandcastle building to shame.