The beaches I went to were on Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Island. 
This first pictures is a group of beach toys for playing in the sand. There are some buckets (or pails depending on where you live in the United States), shovels, a rake, sand castle molds and more. 
Here is a picture of my finished sand castle. Not a bad job, not a great job either. 
Here is a picture of a sand dollar that my son and husband found on Isle of Palms. 
Here is a picture of a seashell. There are oodles and oodles of perfect seashells on both beaches!
My house is the one in the middle! (Okay, only in my dreams!) These are beachfront houses. Only worth a several million each. You can see the sand dunes too (the grassy part). We are not allowed to walk on the dunes because they protect the beach from eroding. 
Here are some sea gulls. 
This is a picture of a working lighthouse. It’s not your normal shape of a lighthouse, which makes it unique.
Here is the beginning of the sunset. A beautiful ending to a beautiful weekend!
Thanx for your nice pics & words.These pics reminds me of my hometown in Shimane. We have big lighthouse in Taisya,
we call “Hinomisaki”,some say,which is biggest in Asia.