I've never seen so many glossy PAINTED EGG COCKLES wash up together as much as I have on the new sand bar at Blind Pass Captiva. Gail Carr (Maryland) collected of these beauties and much more sweet gems she sorted in this fab tackle box... That nice little organized box had another side too she filled with sweet treasures... I love to talk to people who get so much enjoyment at collecting so many different varieties of shells… as I do. Gail said "Each shell has it's own unique beauty." I agree! That's why I got so thrilled when she showed me she found a couple of my new fave shell… the CROSS-HATCHED LUCINE. She found a TEXAS LONGHORN too! She even found a few SHIVA SHELLS … which are the OPERCULUM to the CHESTNUT TURBAN. Gail happen to find a few bright orange CHESTNUT TURBANS as well so I wanted you to see what they looked like together. Looking in the same area where I found my SCOTCH BONNET last week, I found 6 more CROSS-HATCHED LUCINES. I was thrilled to have …
Turban Operculum Shiva Shell
Our Adventures Of Collecting Seashells In Thailand – Part 3
These are Super Sheller Clark's prized possession seashells he found on our trip to Thailand... not one but two SPOTTED TUNS ! Within minutes of getting to the east side of Ao Nang in Krabi, he found these bad boys several feet away from each other high on the beach in the weed line. We had seen broken pieces of them throughout our trip but were afraid we wouldn't find them as a whole shell on the beach since they are so fragile. Wrong! They are in great shape! I found out the word "tun" means wine jar or wine cask. This seems fitting because Clark looked like he wanted to throw a party right there on the beach and drink wine right out of these guys to shellebrate! We got them home safely and I've already displayed them in a white washed wooden bowl with some other pieces we found on our trip. I didnt want any other shells competing with Clark's new babies so I chose to display them with some other sea life we found on the Thailand beaches. I didn't know that I wasn't …
Road Trip To Honeymoon Island Florida – Part 1
Summer Road Trip! Clark and I wanted to take a quick weekend getaway to celebrate our 15th year wedding anniversary (!) so we hopped in the car on Friday night and headed north on I-75 with no reservations and no time restraints. We first heard about Honeymoon Island at the Sanibel Shell Fair and Showa few years ago so we set our radar for somewhere in that vicinity. After a 2 1/2 hour drive, we ended up at the Best Western Yacht Harbor Inn in Dunedin, Florida just in time for sunset. After a big breakfast Saturday morning and a 10 minute drive, we were ready to seek and explore Anniversary Island.... whoops.... I mean, Honeymoon Island. Unfortunately, there's only parking on the south side of the island but we wanted to get to the north tip.... so we started our beach combing journey 2.5 miles to the north tip and right away found CHESTNUT TURBANS in between the rocks. And more Turbans..... This is only a pittance of what we found and we could have brought home a …
