Spindel – the beach sculpture donkey-ish…

There aren’t any donkeys at all on the beach at Criccieth, so we had to build our own.

Meet Spindel the donkey - well almost donkey, he has the udder of a cow courtesy of an orange rubber glove. Spindel is the creation of Hannah, Number 2's (Rick Shore) very creative daughter.

We met up with Rick, Liz, their son Jake, and of course Hannah, whilst they were on holiday on the Llyn. Everybody collected the bits and pieces we needed to make Spindel, with Hannah providing the most important pieces and of course overseeing his construction. Spindel started out as a sheep, then a cow (hence the udder)), but you have to go with what you can find when you make a beach sculpture and what we found turned out to be a bit donkey-ish.

He caused quite a stir on the overcast beach. One couple stopped to photograph him and Hannah wanted to charge them 20p, but they’d moved on before we could demand our fee.

We left him standing quite happily expecting to be fed on the sand and pebbles waiting for the moonlight magic. That’s what happens to beach sculptures, they wait for the moonlight magic and when it shines on them they come to life and wander away.

I wonder where he wandered to.