Tickets are $5 per day, or $10 for a three-day pass. Proceeds go to Mote Marine Lab’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Barbetta; Kumar Mahadevan, president of Mote Marine, Maria Bankemper of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; Crystal Classic Co-Chair Eileen Parkinson and Mark Smith, past president of the Siesta Key Village Association, gather Nov. 8 during a VIP preview event to raise funds for the second Siesta Key C

Chris Tenaglia with master sandsculptors Sandis Kondrats, Edith van de Wetering and Wilfred Stijger. Photos by Loren Mayo

Siesta Key’s own master sandsculptor Brian Wigelsworth and Cheryl Gaddie, president of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce