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One of the fringe benefits of building
sandcastles is the incredible amount
of exposure that it brings to the places
I build at.

My drawing talents have been showcased over on Carrie Stuart-Park's web site. I may have gotten my start in sand, but drawing now ranks way up there in the awesome satisfaction department. Thanks, Carrie, for the encouragement that you are to me.

To read the article featuring me, click here.

 

 

The Melbourne-Palm-Bay-Living.com website featured a nice article on my building buddy, Wally and I.

 

 

 
Visit The Longboat Observer on-line
 
Sandcastling.com's crewmember Wally Frederick in action.

The Wedding Castle of David and Betsy was featured in the August 9th edition of The Longboat Observer. Special thanks to the Shaw family and staff of The Longboat Observer for sending me a copies of the publication.  It's always great to have newspapers that I can send to my mom in San Diego!  :)

 

 

It was very apparent that folks read the newspaper while at the Dolphin Beach Club in Daytona Beach where one article brought the beach vendors scrambling! I'd been building sculptures all week, but it wasn't until the article appeared in the Daytona Beach News Journal that the beach became very crowded as everyone wanted to be close to where I was working... only one bit of trouble -- the article came out on the day that I left.   ;)  Well, at least the Dolphin Beach Club ended up with some great press!

From the Daytona Beach News Journal, June 15, 2001:

Battle lines in the sand

Photo by David Tucker
June 15, 2001; Page 03C
Section: News-Journal SECTION C
Article ID: 0106150287 
Ron Masters of Palm Bay works with care and finesse on a very detailed sand sculpture -- in this case, it's the battleship USS Arizona, memorialized at Pearl Harbor and now this week on Volusia County's beach. Masters and his brother in law, Ty Adkins, said they made several detailed sand sculptures during their stay this week at the Dolphin Beach resort in Daytona Beach Shores. Masters said he photographs the completed sculptures and puts them on his Web site, Sandcastling.com.

 


In addition to Fox and ABC TV coverage, there was this from the front cover of the Tampa Tribune "Florida Metro" Section. September 9, 2000:

The caption under 
the article reads:

"Ron Masters jumps back from building "September Sky" when the real thing - lightning - startles him during the 21st annual Dolphins to Dragons Sand Castle Creations. The competition was held on the beach behind the Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa in St. Pete Beach on Saturday. Although a couple of creations remained unfinished by the time the rain came, most were completed, a resort spokeswoman said."

 

 

The Thunderbird Motel was the featured site for this article from the Shoreline Reporter. August 3rd, 2000: