If you want to learn the types of seashells, sea life, vegetation and what the different kinds of mollusk egg cases look like and live in the Gulf Of Mexico, you’ve got your chance this week. It all washed up on the beach on the East end of Sanibel.

You can see it for miles. So many mollusk egg casings and PEN SHELLS galore!

MERMAID PURSES! Well, they are really SKATE EGG CASES…

HORSE CONCH EGG CASINGS (I shot this with the Nikon J1)…

WHELK EGG CHAINS…

Lots of CRABS too. This one is a STONE CRAB…

My friend Jane called me and said she found a dead crab shell on the beach that had a NAUTILUS  shell pattern. She has found a NAUTILUS before so she would know! Wanna see? CLICK HERE . So I went to see this crab…and it does have that pattern! It’s a FLAME BOX CRAB…

I also saw lots of SEA WHIPS. This was the first time I’ve ever found a WHITE SEA WHIP…

We normally just find the purple SEA WHIPS but when I went to see Jane’s FLAME BOX CRAB she showed me this bright yellow WHIP she picked up as well.

There were oodles of PURPLE SEA URCHINS also ( J1)…

I always get questions about the bones on the beach. They are from the bait in the crab traps… not random dead carcasses. LOL

I also get a lot of questions about this guy on the left. It’s a SEA CUCUMBER…

Don’t worry, I saw lots of shells too. Mainly, the double DOSINIAS.

Cyber Sheller Alert! This next photo is really big so you can do a little shelling and blinging…

Looking through all this BEACH BLING, there are little treasures that look like this so you have to look closely…

Some goodies were still washing in at the shoreline as well…

The big find was by Seth (FL)! He found this huge HORSE CONCH on the sand bar near Donax Rd. Here he is with Erin and Reese…

See? BEACH BLING is a wonderful thing… (J1)

PS- Some of you know I’ve been testing a new Nikon J1 camera. It isn’t very spontaneous but when I do catch a nicer shot than with my spontaneous, trusty, easy, clear Panasonic DMC…. I’ve noted it.