Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
"When I saw light it was before sunup–I tipped my welding glasses and looked at the sand beside me," says Teller, now 92.
When I did see light -- it was before sun-up -- I tipped my welding glass and looked at the sand beside me.
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Unlike my cousin, if I ever visit the Sahara or the Mediterranean it will be as a tourist, looking at the expanse of sand or sea without fear and with wonder at the beauty of this world.
Not too long ago, people walked with their heads up, looking at the water, the sky, the sand and at one another, talking.
The meat from the fish seems to continue until they have eaten their fill and then they laugh and lie back on the sand looking at the moon, which seems now almost as bright as the sun".
Very likely, she sat here every day beside the fixed ashtray filled with sand, looking at the liverish painted wall (they had painted it pink or mauve, but it looked liverish, the corridor being so dim) with the bracket shelf on it supporting a spill of fake ivy.
"The Chinese are likely not to look at the oil sands for a while," said Oliver Borgers, a Toronto lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault who frequently represents companies seeking approval of takeovers under Canada's foreign investment laws.
"The joy and the fun has always been in the doing," he said, "and after it's done you sit back and look at this sand castle you've built and you drink a beer and feel good until the tide takes it away.
