As part of our annual camping trip to Sand Point, Washington, we would build not just castles but Sand Cities, complete with multiple moats and protective city walls on the sand bar as the tide was coming in. Before the waves were high enough to break over the city walls, the water would seep into the sand and fill the city’s many swimming pools and wells. The castles within the cities were the last refuge of the Sand People as the water started seeping in around them. The Sand Cities always met the same watery demise, but their construction and eventual inundation was highly entertaining for us and everyone passing by on the beach. This is a picture of the beach where we built our cities.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton