The annual Boxing Day sandcastle competition on Kelly’s Blue Flag Beach attracted fewer entrants last year, but families still had a ton of fun. Most participants made great use of the plentiful seaweed on the beach. The event is organised and sponsored by Harcourts and Multi Security.
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FUN FOR ALL AGES: The Parsons family of children, parents and grandparents made a crocodile chomping on the rump of a hapless swimmer, and spelled out their family name in redbait Picture: JON HOUZET
WELL SCULPTED: The Strombeck family were the overall winners of the Boxing Day sandcastle competition on Kelly’s Blue Flag Beach. They sculpted a confrontation between an octopus and a hammerhead shark. The event is organised and sponsored by Harcourts and Multi Security Picture: JON HOUZET
SANDSCAPE ARTISTRY: Juanru Malan won a prize as an individual youth entry in the Boxing Day sandcastle competition on Kelly’s Blue Flag Beach. He landscaped a site with dwellings, a fireplace and trees, accessed by a drawbridge over a moat Picture: JON HOUZET
MANY ROOMS: One of the entries in the Harcourts/ Multi Security sandcastle competition at Kelly’s beach on Boxing Day was this traditional sandcastle, albeit on a grand scale Picture: JON HOUZET
SHARK MEETS SWIMMER: The violence of nature appeared to be a popular theme at the Harcourts/ Multi Security sandcastle competition at Kelly’s beach on Boxing Day. Billy Futter and family created this encounter of a hammerhead shark and a swimmer face down in the water. The seaweed came in handy for hair and bikini bottom Picture: JON HOUZET

