Comments on: How To Find Wentletrap Shells On Sanibel

By: Jw

Jw — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:49:26 +0000

In reply to Patricia Banks Walden. Thank you for posting this! I found some this morning after reading this last night.

By: Don Sherwood

Don Sherwood — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:50:10 +0000

For those of you like me who have a bad back but love shelling I have found a new way that works well for me. I can no longer do the Sanibel Stoop for longer periods of time so I found that sitting just north of the Sanibel Pier, well above the water line ends up being a great way to locate Wentletraps. I find a large pile of usually dried shells, clear a spot and sit right in the middle of them. Then, while quite comfortable, I pick up piles of mostly remnants and sift through them. In addition to finding Wentletraps I find some really small varieties of collectible shells. I usually pick up some of those small, clear magnifying boxes to display the better shells since they are so small. Keep shelling everyone. I have been doing this for 55 years now and never get tired of the “hunt.”

By: Matthew Kidd

Matthew Kidd — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:54:10 +0000

Hello, I really love your website, and I am from Virginia Beach and i am trying to become a sheller like you. I have found many microscopic shells at Virginia Beach and had no idea what some of them were called, and ended up here. I identified all of them. Thank you Pam, I even found two wentletraps.