Last night's mango sky brought out a mango tinted HORSESHOE CRAB along with several different mango colored seashells as well. Check out this BEAUTIFUL CRASSATELLA (9 o'clock) Clark found last night at Bowman's beach. Near the east end of Sanibel the night before, I found lots of sweet mini shells. WENTLETRAPS filled the inside of a mango colored COCKLE SHELL and BUTTON SHELLS, BUBBLES, mango tinted MUREXES, DRILLS and CONCHS filled the cup of a DOSINIA. I can't even believe I saw the tiniest of 2 DOVE shells, a RICE OLIVE and a new find for me.... a BROWN-TIP MANGELIA (Kurtziella atrostyla). I looked through my loose change to take a photo of a coin to show just how tiny this shell was and I found a wheat penny- perfect! How in the world did I ever see this little magnificent shell? So happy I did! And yes, it has little "mango" accents (instead of boring brown) on it too. Okay... what is all this mango stuff about, you ask? I've been sorta obsessed with our …
Beautiful Crassatella
Get ‘Em While The Gettin’s Good
What a weekend! The shelling was pretty spectacsheller on Friday, but honestly, it was just as fun meeting so many shellers that have commented on my posts before here on iLoveShelling and on iLS Facebook. Like Heather Gray from who found the sweetest JUNONIA as it washed up at her feet. Shellzam! Look at these other amazing shells she found too... I was so thrilled for her especially since I felt like I already knew her... It was so much fun to finally meet Jodi from Indiana (with hubby Ted) at Blind Pass Captiva as well. She was finding all sorts of fun shells and beach bling but the most exciting shells she found were from the Sanibel side of Blind Pass before and after I saw her. She found two CABRITS MUREXES! This is so cool... Annie from Jordan Minnesota found this DOLPHIN VERTEBRAE ... She was in the scooping water to find it mixed in with a bunch of shells. Anya from Lehigh Acres, Florida snatched up an ALPHABET …
Blind Pass Captiva Still Stirring Seashells
That seashell pile on Captiva's Blind Pass jetty rocks is the gift that keeps on giving. Suzanne (Ft Myers) found a tiny bright orange HORSE CONCH with that cute little white tip about the same time I found my "candy" too. Get ready, cyber shellers! This is the shell pile I saw my little treasured "candy". I was doing the Sit 'N Sift in that big pile when I saw a little sliver of orange peeking through. Can you find it too? (Click the pic to enlarge. It's a big file so it might take longer to download) You got it! Dave and Colleen (PA) were practically digging to China to strike buried treasure. Eureka! They struck gold! He pulled out a golden HORSE CONCH and said "There are 2 famous lines for shellers. The first one is... 'Oh my gosh that shell is absolutely gorgeous!' and the second one is...'Awwww. If this shell were whole, it'd be perfect!'" hahaha How many times have we all said those line??!!!! While I was on the shell pile digging around, Clark was in the …
