Sunday, August 11, 2013

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Sand castle fun in rainy weather

Ethan Gross digs the moat around the sand castle at
Buffalo Pound Provincial Park on Saturday. He, along
with Keenan Gross and cousin Justin Froehlich, were
the only ones who showed up in the rainy
weather for the sand castle building contest.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


A clamshell sat on top of the sand castle as king. A seaweed maze led up to the castle entrance with a net on a pole in the ground to symbolize the country flag, which was Canada.

“This is to mark our territory and that’s our drawbridge,” explained Justin Froehlich, one of the three castle builders. “This is our dirt bike rally. It’s not much of a dirt bike rally thought. This is a guy going on the ramp.”


“And this is our moat. We just put seaweed in it so that we could pour water in,” added Justin’s cousin Ethan Gross, who also designed the seaweed maze. “(Royalty has) a secret password that they can just go straight through (the maze).”


Along with Keenan Gross, the three cousins were the only ones who came out in the rainy weather Saturday morning for a sand building contest at Buffalo Pound Provincial Park.


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