Captiva seashells beach blind pass 120811

The early morning low tides have exposed some beach combing beauties the last few days…. finally!

Captiva sandbar blind pass 120811

This was the new sand bar at Blind Pass Captiva yesterday morning. The shell wrack had some nice pickins like this BANDED TULIP…

banded tulip in sand

APPLE MUREX…

apple murex pen shell

This gorgeous lemon yellow SCALLOP…

yellow pectin scallop

You can see for yourself, Cyber Shellers! This was a random shot of the wrack line. Click ‘N Shell….

cyber shelling bp dec 8 2011

 Believe it or not, I was at the lighthouse beach this morning at dawn.

Sanibel lighthouse dawn

Unfortunately, there were too many clouds to even get a peek at the sun rising on the horizon….BUT I didn’t mind a bit after I found the ALPHABET CONE!

alphabet abc cone sanibel lighthouse

 I found so many live STARFISH…

starfish touching dancing

tiny starfish on finger tip

Mixed in with lots of BEACH BLING….

Sanibel lighthouse beach

 I met cutie pie Luis from Columbia (and NOT I’m talking South Carolina!) who held his very first live mollusk.

Luis Columbia Sanibel live conch

 So cool, Luis!

live fighting conch Luis

 I can’t wait for tomorrow! Negative low tides in the mornings should be more fun shelling!

beaches catamaran Sanibel sunrise