If this isn't a sign, I don't know what is. We headed down to beach access #7 on West Gulf Drive again this morning and in just a couple of minutes I plucked this FLORIDA CONE out of the surf..... and Clark found me a watch! haha He scooped it up out of the surf only a minute after I found the cone. It's still working! Long story but my nice "waterproof" watch just died (rusted in the inside-ugh)so now I have a watch for the beach. FYI- It's not an expensive watch...but if it's yours, let me know. These 2 extreme kayakers Laurens and David were taking a rest on the beach as part of their journey along the west coast. They left Port Charlotte for a 10 day kayak-a-thon to Key West for Lobsterfest. Everything they need is on their kayaks. They have hammocks with mosquito netting to sleep on/in, water, food, GPS, and cell phones tucked securely away in the bow of the boat. That's crazy, right? We just met them and I'm already so worried about them so I asked them to let us know when …
Archives for July 2010
The Crab and The Sunset
The larger shells are coming back in around West Gulf Drive...finally! We found plenty of FIGHTING CONCHS, a few LIGHTNING WHELKS and BANDED TULIPS....but how about that crazy CRAB! He was running back and forth in the surf and then stopped to check me out. All of these were found on the beach off West Gulf Drive around beach access #7. Kalex has been coming to Sanibel to shell with his family for the past 3 years. He had a shell bag with lots of OLIVES but was on a mission looking for the mini shells. I didn't see it, but Clark and another guy on the beach said they saw the green flash on this sunset. They said I turned away too quickly...darn! I was messing with my camera, I'm sure. Of all the sunsets I've seen, I've only seen the green flash about 3 times. When it happens...celebrate! …
Seashells Under The Rainbow
We headed to the beach after a nice, well needed rain shower on Tuesday evening. When we started walking down the path to the beach, the sky seemed to get a strange yellowish tint .......then the rainbow. But wait.....a double rainbow! As I took a picture of this live LIGHTNING WHELK (for you Barbara!), a man out of nowhere plops an even bigger live whelk right beside it. It looks like I staged those 2 whelks in the first picture but that's exactly how he put it down.....perfect! Not 5 seconds later, a sweet little girl came running over to see those 2 whelks. Her grandparents Janice and Ted saw that I was photographing the shells and told her to leave them alone.........I felt like I was in slow motion.....snapping away and telling them Kayleigh (from yesterday's post Cherub Under the Rainbow) was quite alright if it was okay if I photographed her. She is aaaddorrraable! A little seashell cherub has come to inspect the whelks to make sure they are happy and healthy. This …
