Pinch me! We spent our shelling vacation in Thailand! Yes… Thailand! I think if you started digging a hole on the beach of Sanibel and continued through the earth, you’d end up on a beach in Thailand…the other side of the planet.

We spent most of our beach time on the south end of Phuket, Thailand in an area called Rawaii.

 We, of course, couldn’t wait to scour the beaches to see what kind of shells were there!

 I love these little tiny SAND DOLLARS…

We found such a variety of unusual shells (unusual for us, anyway)…

 We took one of those beautiful longtail boats out to Bon Island and Coral Island.

 Now I know why they call it Coral Island. Wow! So much beautiful coral.

 ..with a few gorgeous shells mixed in.

 Well…ahem… more than just a few gorgeous shells. I found lots of them!

 But once again, Super Sheller Clark found CONES!

 He found them by snorkeling right along the shoreline…

Oh no. I’m crashing with jet lag again (30 hours of traveling with 2 hours sleep…did I mention an 11 hour time difference?). I’ve got to take this in short spurts for a few days to get caught up with sleep, mail, phone calls, work, laundry and cuddling with the kitties .

But one more thing for today….I have to thank Captain Brian for filling in and writing such great posts while we were gone. It was so much fun to have him as a guest blogger, right??? He also had a little guessing game on the Where is Pam? post asking if you could guess where we found these shells. Here’s the photo that was posted…

We have a clear winner! Holly Barth Giehler!

She said “Is it Thailand? The rock “islands” in the distance look like those that were in some of the pictures a friend of mine had from her recent vacation there.”

Then she wrote back and said “It was actually Krabi, Thailand that I was thinking. That’s where a friend of mine was earlier this year and it’s also where part of the movie, “The Hangover 2″ was filmed (the beautiful scenes at the resort where the wedding took place).”

OMG Holly, you had it pinned! The photo of the cones was taken about 10 minutes away from that hotel (the Phulay Bay Ritz Carlton) where they filmed that movie! Congrats! I’ll send you a few shells that we brought home! But wait, getting back to the “Hangover 2″ movie, of course we had to go have a drink to check it out.

 Next up…. more Thailand shelling in Phuket and then on to Krabi! And I’m going to try to identify some of these cool shells too so you can see them up close and personal.