SIZZLING IN SURFERS
CITY visitor capital Surfers Paradise is sizzling day and night, tipped to peak at 34 degrees this Wednesday.
Norway’s Synnove Skjelle soaks up the sun on a break from Griffith University studies while Alex Mayes, Paige Palmer and Lilly Mayes join the party people at nearby bar The Bedroom.
WHEN he was a kid Jim McCauley loved building sand castles on the beach – decades later he’s still doing it albeit on a larger and grander scale.
The Tasmanian is a competitor in the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships being held as part of the Sand Safari Arts Festival at Surfers Paradise.
Since Friday, 10 competitors have working 10 hours a day shaping sand into art highlighting the ocean with sculptures ranging from coral reefs to an octopus.
Tasmania’s Meg Murray won the competition.
About eight tonnes of sand went into Mr McCauley’s sculpture, titled Shipwrecks and Things From The Deep.
He has been creating sand sculptures for the past 16 years after helping to organise a sand sculpting event.
The sculptures will be displayed along the esplanade until February 24.