An afternoon at the beach

Another Sunday excursion took us to a sand sculpture contest at St. Heliers Beach. When we first arrived we thought we saw a group attempting to save a stranded whale, however there did not appear to be the necessary haste or attention that a dying whale deserves. Turned out to be something far more interesting, a whale rescue group doing practice rescuing.

Project Jonah had groups of volunteers going over drills with inflatable whales and dolphins. It was really nice to see this group actively training. After working through the group of orange clad groups, we made our way to the sand castles. There were definitely some interesting entries, but not quite up to the standards of New River. There were some culturally significant ones and some of the artists got a bit more into their castles than others!

After wandering through the very few entries of castles and other miscellaneous sculptures to enjoy the entirety of beach. Beautiful large trees overhung the road and a well maintained boardwalk running the whole length of the beach.

I beautiful beach that definitely will get more attention from us when the weather gets a bit nicer.