Terry Devine, one of the Wildberries team members, sprawls beside the sunbathers the group created. Credit: Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

From castles to koi fish, squid to sunbathers, sandy creations sprung up alongside the sea in Manila today — only to disintegrate as the waves advanced.

Terry Devine, one of the Wildberries team members, sprawls beside the sunbathers the group created. Credit: Carrie Peyton Dahlberg

Among the ephemera were two giant, lanky bodies, seaweed hair steaming down their shoulders, who looked so relaxed they tempted one person after another to lie beside them. If there had been a prize for most interactive sand sculpture, this surely would have nabbed it, said Terry Devine, a member of the Wildberries team that dreamed these two up.

“It went viral,” she said, in between offering to take pictures of passerby who wanted their place in the sun.

Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.

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