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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When I first searched the heaps of seaweeds from Beach Point to Corn Hill, my father Leonard Hansen had rented a ramshackle house that Jack built for two weeks in 1954, a great summer place to launch ...

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 ...

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 ...