He's carved it all - from the yellow sand of Virginia to the red in Wisconsin to the pink of Bermuda. South Jersey sand, he proclaimed, is the best of all. The thing about it is that those black streaks are silt. Clean sand doesn't hold together. Neither does dry sand.
Trouble is, it's tough to tell.
Feld never even went to the beach until he was in his 30s and his wife talked him into going to Ocean City. Bored witless, he made a sand dinosaur with his son, then 8. Later, a lifeguard wandered by. There's a contest this week. One win led to another.