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diversions
Sand
wars attack Belmont Plaza beach
Story and Photo By Tanya Dellaca
Summer Forty-Niner
Despite overcast
skies, mild winds and no prior experience the wife of a Cal
State Long Beach coach and her team, The Coaches, took first
place at the shoreline near the Belmont Plaza Pool during
the Great Sand Sculpture Contest on Saturday August 17.
“We showed up with only two buckets and two shovels,” Caroline
Reynaud of the Coaches.
Reynaud is the wife of Peter Reynaud the coach for the women’s
soccer team at CSULB. Her team of seven was made up of all
women swim coaches.
Their sand sculpture titled “Flyer” short for butterflyer
shows a swimmer being menaced by a shark.
“There has never been a shark attack in Long Beach and we
wanted to make one in Long Beach today,” said team member
Natalie Merrow, an education major at CSULB.
Other winners included second year participant Evelyn Garcia
a CSULB employee. Garcia and team, King Arthur’s Construction
Co., took the second place award for design with their castle
“Once Upon a Time.”
With a total of 17 teams competing, nearly everyone took home
something. The adult winning teams received awards including
a $100 cash prize in the categories of creativity, design
and depiction of title. The winning children’s teams won goodie
bags.
The first place team in the “Kool Kids Kategory,” were Grindstaff
and Friends for “Hun’s Castle.” In the design category, the
James Gang won for “A Sandman’s Dream.” The Coaches team won
the creative category for “The Flyer.” The best description
of title award went to The Sand Crabs with “Even Dragons Love
Making Sandcastles.”
Sculptures ranged from the traditional sandcastles each created
with a different level of skill to cartoon character, Sponge
Bob Square Pants. Other designs included a giant tortoise,
twin dragons, a sand skateboard park and various fish scenes.
During the competition portion of the contest the music of
rock band Identity Crisis was featured. Afterward, as the
judges made their selections, spectators gathered at the stairs
of the Belmont Plaza Pool to watch the colorful Tiki-Tiki
dancers perform Tahitian style dances.
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Tahitian
dancers break the competition tension during the contest on
the steps of the Belmont Plaza Pool.
At the same time Galvani Hopson, of the KYRO Youth Group team,
runs out of time as he puts the final touches on their entry
“The Tortoise and the Hare” which took second place for best
description of title.
Dry Surfing? Taking third place in the creativity category,
Team Cristo creates a sand version of a skateboard park complete
with seaweed skaters.
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