A couple of Auckland brothers have drawn admiration from beachgoers at Mt Maunganui's main beach today after crafting a mammoth sandcastle on Boxing Day.From sketching the structure out “on a bit of A4 paper” to starting construction at high tide yesterday at 9.30am, Jared and Paul Brandon built a two-metre high sandcastle for 10 hours in what is set to become a Boxing Day tradition for the pair.“We bought the biggest buckets we could use from Bunnings – the 150 litre was the largest and the smaller one was the classic household bucket.”"The are a few tricks," Paul says, adding “It’s like two parts water to one part sand.”Then there were spatulas for carving the windows, toothpicks for the roof piles and straws to blow away “excess sand”.The pair, both videographers, plan to go even further next year and hope to recruit wider family to help.“We are trying to conjure more family to get involved to make a village in 2023 so we will try and train up my sister and brother-in-law to help us as they seemed keen this year.”Paul was up at sunrise to capture morning snaps of the sandcastle and make sure it was still standing."