The legend of the sand dollar

By |2017-04-19T13:42:29+00:00April 19th, 2017|Blog|16 Comments

Have you ever found a whole sand dollar on the beach? Lots of folks look for them, but it’s a treasure when you find one still intact. Sand dollars are actually burrowing sea urchins. When they wash up on the beach and are bleached by the sun, they look like a large silver coin, hence the moniker. A legend about these creatures says they represent the story of Christ: On the top of the shell is a symbol that looks like [...]