Florida Horse Conch washed up on the beach

Shellzam! This HORSE CONCH rolled up on the beach right in front of me!

Beach combers dream to find an empty conch

As the evening tide was coming in at Gulfside City Park Beach, it was bringing oodles of PENS SHELLS, SEA URCHINS and STARFISH…

Sea shells wash up on Sanibel Island Florida beach

So many other cool things wash up too like yellow SEA WHIPS, DONINIAS and BONES from CRAB TRAPS. When we have high west winds, the water gets so rough that CRAB TRAPS get tossed around so hard the BONES that are left over from the bait (mostly PIGS FEET) end up falling out then wash ashore.

Yellow Sea Whip dosinias and pen shells

The Gulf Of Mexico is so powerful, even when the wind dies down the currents still have enough power to wash large live HORSE CONCHS on the beach. Clark and I saw about 6 live HORSE CONCHS wash up on to the beach. We tried to walk them out in the water far enough to not wash up again but all we can do is keep our fingers crossed they stayed there.

live horse conch

And then… there are magical times when one of these big, beautiful shells rolls up on the beach completely empty like this one found by Lynn from Missouri. Spectacsheller!

Lynn MO finds a house conch on Sanibel

 

And then…. another big, beautiful empty HORSE CONCH rolls up for me too! We got to shellebrate together! Pam Rambo and Lynn find large shells after storm

You want to know the most amazing thing? I filmed my find on video so you get to see it too…. hopefully soon. I was filming all of the cool BEACH BLING on my iPhone but didn’t realize that I had been videoing for 6 minutes and 40 seconds. I’ve had the hardest time downloading a video thats so long- Ack! So… as Im writing, it still has 329 minutes remaining to download. OMG Ive already been trying for a day now! So I will show you this awesome unedited video in my next post just so you can see everything single thing I saw on my beach walk and see how I found my HORSE CONCH. Its so cool!

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So until then… enjoy the gorgeous sunset we saw as we walked back to the car carrying my exshellent treasure.

UPDATE: The video is done and I have another post with more photos … CLICK HERE to see it!

shells, birds and sunset on Sanibel