Playing at the beach can feel like the world’s biggest sandbox to a wide-eyed kid. Dressed in bright bathing suits and covered in a dusting of sand, kids can often be seen lugging sloshing buckets of ...

A trend of adults using metal shovels and digging large holes to search for shark’s teeth at Sands Beach in Port Royal has prompted an ordinance regulating the size of holes and the type of tools that ...

MIRAMAR BEACH — Walk along any of the local beaches and it won't be long before you'll see someone, or lots of someones — young, old, in-between, man, woman, boy, girl — digging a hole. Whether the ...

Metal shovels and gardening tools are now prohibited on the beach in Holmes Beach. Sea turtles have gotten trapped in the large holes. The city says people dug 6-7 foot holes and didn’t fill them in, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hole Party participants work on digging holes at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, Calif. on March 28, 2026. (Adam Pardee/Special to ...

SUNSET BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Nearly a year after implementing a ban on metal shovels at Sunset Beach, the town council has unanimously repealed the ban. The town’s fire department first suggested a ban ...

These beach-town rules are not myths. From Del Mar’s two-foot hole limit to Cape May’s bathing-suit curfew and Tybee’s ban on ...