A quick update from Beth and Cazzie! They are safe and sound on Fort Myers Beach as well as most of the their island. They took a break from the hard work of clean up during Hurricane Irma recovery so they decided to walk the beach. They found awesome seashells on their beach! Shellzam! Not just ALPHABET CONES, NUTMEGS, MUREX and SCOTCH BONNET but a JUNONIA and ROSE MUREX! Cazzie found a huge empty HORSE CONCH... pershellverance, I tell ya. haha A good sign that mermaids and mermen will survive ;) So happy yall are safe and you found time to do what you love... beachcombing! …
Sanibel Beach After Hurricane Irma
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Hurricane Irma Sanibel
Just so ya know, Clark and I are safe and sound. We're a little stressed by Irma (okay yea, A LOT stressed) but we've done all we can to protect our beloved Sanibel but more importantly... protect ourselves and our kitties. We are sending out hopes of safety for everybody in her path. Im sorry to say I won't be responding to any comments or publishing any more posts to conserve our phones in case of emergency for anybody. But just know that I love to read your replies so until this beast called Irma passes and we know Sanibel and our friends are ok, I'll try to post afterwards. Please keep Sanibel and everyone in her tracks in your thoughts. Go away Irma! …
Walking Pet Fish On Streets Of Sanibel Islands
https://youtu.be/TU4qZNdFyxU Just the average day walking my pet fish on Sanibel, yall. hahaha Yep, it's flooded here but everybody's ok other than some flooded streets and yards. My friend John (Captain John, Johnny Rescue) wanted to see how bad the flooding was and saw this GAR taking a took this video- LOL. Meanwhile, instead of searching the beaches for shells and other cool stuff, we had to barricade the water from seeping into our house. Clark went to Lowe's to get bags of shells to build up around our patio so as we opened the bags to build up little flood wall we found our own little cool things. Awesome Fossils! Our thoughts are with the folks in Texas who are battling with the terrible wrath of Hurricane Harvey. Please be safe. …
Shell ‘N Tell – Solomon Islands Seashell Identification
Finding so many different species of shells in the Solomon Islands was abshellutely awesome. It's so much fun taking our time to look at each one to appreciate the details in the patterns, textures and colors. While we sort them, we find ourselves reminiscing with each seashell like the CAMEO HELMET (Cypraecassis rufa) pictured above and this CHANNELED TUN (Tonna canaliculata) and wonder why they aren't called the Shellomon Islands. heehee Before we left our lovely little bungalow at FatBoys Resort on Mbabanga Island to return home, we wanted to share our shells we found on our trip. Everybody had been intrigued all week about our shell obsession ...errrr... or "passion for shells" so we thought we'd carry them (in those cute baskets they taught me to make) to a little Shell 'N Tell party at the end of the dock for everybody to see. It was so much fun showing our new friends Rachel and Michael from Australia... We had to make choices of what to bring home so …
New Video- August Shelling Adventure on Cayo Costa
Finally a new shelling video! It was an awesome day finding whelks, conchs, sand dollars and more on our iLoveShelling adventure with Captiva Cruises on Friday (8-11-17) It was such a blast to be back home sweet home on the beaches of Southwest Florida but I promise very soon I'll post more photos of our amazing shelling trip across the world to the Solomon Islands (CLICK HERE) But until then.... here's a little video of the awesome shelling adventure I had with so many cool shellers on our boat and what we all found on Cayo Costa. Every single person found SAND DOLLARS! Some of them look a little dark but I checked each one to make sure it was not alive before anybody took them. And that reeeaaallly dark LIGHTNING WHELK (the dark ones are male) is totally empty- I know you cant tell by the shadow but trust me... empty. https://youtu.be/HXJKLBYWTMQ …
Solomon Islands Life With Shells
I’ve always dreamed about staying on an exotic island in a thatched roof bungalow with a porch lined with beautiful seashells looking over clear blue water with tropical fish. My dream came true… in the Solomon islands!! Not only did Clark and I find an amazing place to stay ... We found oodles of empty seashells! And bunches of beach bling like SEA BEANS, SEA URCHINS and this awesome OPERCULUM (aka- SHIVA SHELL or MERMAID MONEY). Just off the beach from our bungalow, I snorkeled with hundreds of colorful tropical fish. I found Nemo! Brilliant live BLUE SEA STARS were in the water everywhere we went. We visited during an extremely low tide during the day so I picked this one up off a dry rock to place it back in the water. We not only explored the beaches, we explored the villages to learn about the Solomon people and their culture. These are MANGROVE OYSTERS we ate for an appetizer one night. They use shells to decorate …
Where in the World Beach Combing
We have gone shelling on beaches around the world but our latest adventure may have been to the most remote and fascinating islands yet. We found these shells the first 2 days of arriving then explored oodles of other beaches to find several other types we've never found before. Although the CLAMS in this photo are abshellutely beautiful and very common we didn't bring them home since they aren't allowed to be transported (Big Thanks HL for the heads up :) ). So this is just a little peek at our incredible shellcation and I'll let y'all know where we traveled to on my next post.... but any guesses? Nope, not Hawaii or Japan ;) …
On Shellcation!
We are on shellcation and on quite an adventure! We've had family visiting Sanibel (Clark's brother Scott and his wife Janet) so we are going off the grid for another week or two. You are not going to believe my next few posts... so until then.... Hasta Shellvista! …
Exploring Big Hickory
When life hands you a variety of beautiful seashells to look at... pick them them up to feel and see their differences. Be curious about the entire beach. You just might find something extraordinary like spotting SEA TURTLE tracks from a female LOGGERHEAD who dug her nest to laid her eggs the night before. We witnessed conservation volunteers putting a fence around the nest to protect it. Then of course jump in the water! We had such a fabshellous time on our iLoveShelling adventure to Big Hickory Island on Sight Sea-R Cruises!There's nothing better than hanging out with a boat load of other passionate shellers exploring the beach together. Everybody finds different treasures that make the day happy. And to top it off with a blue sky and clear turquoise water... how does it get better? It's the wonderful people we get to meet on a trip like this As beachcombers, we are not only touched by seashells and the sea but we are touched by others who are drawn to the sea. …
