People living in Ilfracombe, north Devon, were joined by emergency services during the night as they gathered sand from beaches to build flood defences.
Storms gathered sand into a reef where mangroves eventually rooted, holding it in place and encouraging the formation of an island.
Note that there is only a little sand in the area downstream of the sand patch, which suggests that the sand patch gathers sand from upstream.
Enough was never enough, but the castle was built of sand, and the cup that gathered the sand didn't have a bottom.
Then, over millions of years, as the sands gather above the burial site, minerals in the bone will leak away, to be replaced by rock crystals that precisely copy the bone's shape.
— Long before lawmakers prepared to gather at the sand-colored Capitol here on Tuesday for the opening day of the legislative session, State Representative Richard Peña Raymond had already filed a little-noticed bill to drastically change not only how they conduct business, but also how often.
Outside the water, crowds gathered on the sand to observe rounds of flip-flop toss and tug-of-war as well as sand castle building and kayak races.
We gathered in the sand around the loggerhead.
