{"id":23101,"date":"2016-08-31T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23101"},"modified":"2016-08-31T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:59:47","slug":"sand-sculpting-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sand-sculpting-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"World Class Sand Sculpting in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/usanscu.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Head for\u00a0sunny San Diego this Labor Day Weekend for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-sand-sculpting.html\">US Sand Sculpting Challenge<\/a>\u00a0Sept.2-5, 2016. One of the most\u00a0prestigious\u00a0sand competitions in the world\u00a0attracts Master Sculptors who\u00a0build\u00a0sand castle designs\u00a0weighing up to 10 tons each. Among the well known talents is Kirk Rademaker\u00a0(The Sand Guy) of Stinson Beach, who won&#8217;t be on his\u00a0home turf\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/point-reyes-sand-sculpting.html\">Point Reyes Sand Sculpture Contest<\/a> at Drake&#8217;s Beach on\u00a0Sept.4. He&#8217;s taking his sand toys to San Diego and playing with the big girls and boys for $60,000 in prize money, plus admiration from thousands of amazed spectators. The four day event at B Street Pier includes\u00a0food trucks, bands, beer &amp; wine gardens and a dimensional art expo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just look at the competition at US Sand Sculpting Challenge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helena Bangert | Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Melineige Beauregard | Canada<\/li>\n<li>Dan Belcher\u00a0| St.\u00a0Louis<\/li>\n<li>Katsuhiko Chaen | Japan<\/li>\n<li>Michela Ciappini | Italy<\/li>\n<li>Rusty Croft\u00a0| Carmel, CA<\/li>\n<li>Ilya Filimontsev | Russia<\/li>\n<li>John Gowdy | Italy<\/li>\n<li>Chris\u00a0Guinto | Key West, FL<\/li>\n<li>Joris Kivits | Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Koet\u00a0| Melbourne,\u00a0FL<\/li>\n<li>Sandis Kondrats | Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Sue McGrew | Seattle<\/li>\n<li>Fergus Mulvany\u00a0| Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Phillips | Carlsbad, CA<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Probanza | Spain<\/li>\n<li>Kirk\u00a0Rademaker | Stinson Beach, CA<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Rudluff | Santa Cruz, CA<\/li>\n<li>Agnese Rudzite-Kirillova | Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Susanne Ruseler | Holland<\/li>\n<li>JOOheng Tan | Singapore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head for\u00a0sunny San Diego this Labor Day Weekend for\u00a0US Sand Sculpting Challenge\u00a0Sept.2-5, 2016. One of the most\u00a0prestigious\u00a0sand competitions in the world\u00a0attracts Master Sculptors who\u00a0build\u00a0sand castle designs\u00a0weighing up to 10 tons each. Among the well known talents is Kirk Rademaker\u00a0(The Sand Guy) of Stinson Beach, who won&#8217;t be on his\u00a0home turf\u00a0for\u00a0Point Reyes Sand Sculpture Contest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}