Tampa Turrid Turkey Wing shells

 Don’t get your taste buds all worked up about TURKEY, RICE or CANDY because I’m talking seashells, of course! We found lots of mini “morsels” at the lighthouse over the weekend including these two TURKEY WINGS  (the biggest one is only about an inch long) and two TAMPA TURRIDS in the photo above and RICE OLIVES and BABY’S EARS in this next photo.

rice olives babys ears seashells

Along with the usual ANGULATE WENTLETRAPS, I found a BROWN BANDED WENTLETRAP too….

brown banded wentletrap epitonia

…. And some AUGERS and little FIGHTING CONCHS.

Auger shells conch gastropods

 And to top it all off with some sweet candy, we found two HORSE CONCHS and baby ALPHABET CONE.

miniature horse conch cone

 I met William and Melissa (Jacksonville, FL) filling their shells bags with SCALLOP shells, CONCHS and some MUREXES.

William and Melissa Sanibel beach

I found out this was their first trip to Sanibel so I showed them how to find WENTLETRAPS too..

Melissas's Sanibel seashells

 I met another Shelling Sister Sanibel Stooper on the beach too…. this little cutie Lucy! She was having a ball with this COCKLE shell on the beach with her parents Jeff and Tammy.

Sanibel puppy stooper

 And look what I found again…. a SMOOTH DUCK CLAM. Maybe it isn’t that unusual (?)

Smooth duck clam on beach

Unfortunately, it’s so thin and fragile, it broke when I got it back to the house……oops!

broken smooth duck clam

There were so many SAILOR’S EARS, I bunched a few together and that’s when I saw the SMOOTH DUCK CLAM too.

Sailors ears

Sailors ears

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susick seashell sifter shelling scoop