There has been a lot of sand-sculpting on the beach since my post in May 2014 on sand creations.  In January I spotted a delightful little sand-man:

And recently there has been a large variety of sand castles:

Your basic castle keep,
with servant quarters...

A triple-towered castle...

Triple-tower deluxe with extra fortifications and moat...

A sand fortress complete with flagpole...

and a sand burial mound.

Someone was left behind to stand guard...

A very ambitious project!

Then of course we have a couple of mermaids:

A very relaxed mermaid with lovely seaweed hair...

and an elaborate mermaid/dolphin combo, with central pool...

The dolphin mermaid has long flowing tresses...

And next we have my personal favorite, the sand-turtle:

 

Oh, and in a class by itself, a wet-sand-dribbled mountain:

Well done, everyone!