The right sand awaits your castle

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | July 4, 2002| | Copyright

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The right sand awaits your castle By CHARLES AUSTIN, Staff Writer Date: 07-04-2002, Thursday Section: GET SET! Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition

A beach is sand. And waves. The tide comes in and goes out. A beach is a beach, right?

It's not that simple if you build sand castles. As surfers learn to read the waves they ride, we castle builders do a more thorough analysis of the territory as we get out our pails and shovels.

In 30 years of constructing sand castles, I've built on the beaches of more than a dozen countries from East Africa to South ...

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