PORT ARANSAS -- When I was a young child, every trip to Galveston or Rockport ended in the same way: arriving home in Dallas with a sunburn on my shoulders, tar smudges on my feet and colorful plastic ...

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Throughout the summer I have continually been asked when and where can we find sand dollars? Also, I have had as many people come in and happily tell me that they found sand dollars on the beach for ...

You can find them in most Lowcountry gift shops — those sun-bleached, disc-like “shells” of sand dollars, popular as decorations and souvenirs. Each cookie-shaped, calcium carbonate skeleton once ...

Have you ever scoured the beach hunting for that perfect sand dollar to take home as a souvenir? Or perhaps plucked one of them out of the water? It could've been alive. Many beachgoers don't realize ...

Marissa Pohle poses in front of the sand dollar wings her father, Chris Pohle, installed on a North Wildwood beach. (Chris Pohle photo) In mid-March, something unexpected — and angelic — popped up on ...

Is there a simpler summertime pleasure than strolling a beach to collect the shelled treasures that wash ashore? Well, only eating ice cream in bare feet, perhaps, though those can go hand in hand.

DESTIN, Fla. — Sand dollars can't be used as money, but one boy feels a lot richer after finding a big one during his Florida vacation. The Northwest Florida Daily News reports 11-year-old Syler ...