Carlsbad Art and Culture

Carlsbad is known for providing a variety of enjoyable experiences including the shady village streets, the colorful flower fields and a dominant extreme sport culture, but the most popular way to spend a hot Summer day in Carlsbad has always be a day at the beach. Saturday June 4th was no exception as large crowds enjoyed the 2011 Carlsbad Beach Fest at Robert C. Frazee State Beach.

Sunblock and kettle corn whipped into the warm ocean breeze as the cloudless sky above scattered with sign yanking airplanes. The street-side lawn animated with freshly tanned bodies who kept the beat to live drum performances and awed at the sensual sculptures of Lynn Forbes.

Beyond the salty boardwalk rail, down the critter crawling bluff and into the hot sand awaited festival info booths, volleyball tournaments, environmental conscious advocates and a stage which rotated with local bands of all genres, age groups and influences.

The lower beach walk congested with onlookers in route for the most anticipated ritual of the event. Hundreds of buckets of sand and gallons of sprayed water transformed a giant mound of sand into this year’s beach themed sand sculpture created by U.S. Open champions Archisand.

An overall appreciation for our coast was the theme and by the looks of the large sunburned crowd, June gloom was the only one who missed out.