My mind is blown by how many spectacsheller SPECTRAL BITTERSWEETS cover the beach on Jupiter Island, Florida. This is a "Throw Back Thursday" since I never posted this trip my good friend Diane and I took from Sanibel over to the east coast of Florida in January to visit some other girlfriends- Girls Getaway! We couldn't stay for very long so we packed in everything we could... including an hour on the beach for shelling. Of course. We hit the mother load of SPECTRAL BITTERSWEETS at Blowing Rocks Preserve which has beautiful rock formations exposed from ocean currents depositing drifting sea shells and sand to form an underwater bar of COQUINA LIMESTONE about 125,000 years ago. This is the largest rock formation of the Anastasia Formation from St Augustine to southern Palm Beach County. We mostly found the SPECTRAL BITTERSWEETS around the rocks but I did find a big ol' LIONS PAW frag too (which I kept- heehee). Along with the gorgeous view, the excellent …
Bittersweet Clam
Shellectric Seashells
It doesn't get any better than seeing a huge pile of shells wash up on the beach within one day. I was shellucky enough to see it happen at Blind Pass Captiva and to get the video of it I showed you on my last post. It was Shellectric! Talk about "shellucky" - local sheller Susan from Pine Island found a CABRITS MUREX! Shellzam! These are just a few other fab shells she found as well... Lolly was there with her homemade shell belt collecting all sorts of goodies. She found all sorts of shells like HORSE CONCHS, WHELKS, MUREXES and FLAT ZIG ZAGS and GIANT BITTERSWEETS... After seeing my "CANDY" (my little HORSIES in the first photo) and Lolly's as well, an orange HORSE CONCH is all Patti from MN was wishing to find. Moments later... voila! Patti whooped it up when she found her own sweet "CANDY". Yay! Babs from St Augustine was there to see all the shellnanagans and to find her own treasures. Its always fun to see what makes …
Utopia Beach on Cayo Costa Island
If Utopia is an island of clear aqua blue water with strings of seashells lining the shore, then we found Utopia on Cayo Costa Island during our iLoveShelling cruise on Captiva Cruises this week. My day started out with such joy and fun meeting Shelling Sistahs Cheryl (Venice) and Alice (Ohio via Venice, FL). Love them! Our morning had a slight chill in the air around 62 degrees then quickly warmed to 80 in no time at all by the time we got to the island to start our search for shells. Cheryl found the first BABY'S EAR! It's sort of hidden by the JINGLES on the right but she is a JINGLE SHELL lover like I am so she started picking up as many JINGLES as she could. You might recognize Shelling Sistah Katherine Haskins since I met her last year at Lighthouse Beach and so much enjoy her comments here on the blog. She found a gorgeous SPECKLED TELLIN and either a very big BUTTERCUP LUCINE or a very yellow CHALKY BUTTERCUP LUCINE (I should have inspected the hinge more closely …
