Day 7.132: A 'castle or two

Sunday's beach visit was a chance to use our Maine State Park season pass. We visited Crescent Beach State park where we had previously been as visiting New Yorkers.

We arrived when the tide was starting to come in and immediately set to work:

Exile #3 was in creative mood and built a hospital (with cross) and graveyard for the doomed inhabitants, just outside the castle walls:

Appropriately (or not), the graveyard was the first to succumb to the waves.

She also made those rather excellent trees.

Exile #4 rose to the challenge, building this water park, with an impressive slide and a pretty (if unappealing splash-down pool.

Of course, the inevitable happened...

and then, one more big wave and it was all over:

Until we decided to build another one.  A simple castle with a spiral roadway, double moat and pretty entrance-way.

That didn't last long either - much to our delight!

First the outer defences:

Then nearly everything else:

And finally...