More than 25,000 people attended the 25th annual sandcastle competition at Galveston over the weekend, according to a car count from the park board.
The East Beach competition was won by JACOBS of Houston, says Leah Boyd of the Galveston Convention & Visitors Bureau, for the above dragon-ized design. Matrix Spencer Architects of Houston won second prize.
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.