08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
He builds sand sculptures for joy. A huge carving of Crocs put him on the map.
Holding plastic toy shovels and buckets, Mark Lewis and his son were ready to get serious on their beach vacation.
They built a huge mound of sand, poured water from the Atlantic Ocean over it, then jumped onto it and chipped away at it with shovels. The result was their first ambitious sand sculpture: a copy of Minas Tirith, a fortified city from Lord of the Rings.