find sand dollars on fort myers beach florida

Every time I’ve visited my friends on Fort Myers Beach, I’ve found SAND DOLLARS (and so many other beautiful shells). It’s crazy!

sand dollars conchs sunray venus spiny jewlbox

I met Laura, Bruce, Rhonda and Darrell (Michigan) who were happy as clams they found so many SAND DOLLARS …

laura bruce rhonda darrell michigan shelling ft myers beach florida

They filled up 2 bags! They asked me how they could get them home without breaking them so I suggested finding plastic containers. When we travel, we buy groceries based on what type of containers they come in… like chicken salad, lunch meat, peanut butter, etc. So what if we don’t finish the peanut butter, we get several lunches out of it and then clean out the jar and use it for shells. CLICK HERE to see one of my posts on my containers.

bags of sand dollars fort myers beach florida

Susan and Vince from Canada said they could have picked up hundreds of them but chose to only take a few as souvenirs.

susan vince waterloo canada visit fort myers beach florida shelling

They picked the most perfect ones!

hand full of sand dollars ft myers beach

Other than SAND DOLLARS, I found some really pretty SPINY JEWELBOXES…

spiny jewel boxes fort myers beach

And POINTED VENUS shells too. I don’t find many of these on Sanibel but every time I go to this beautiful beach,  I’ve found them.

pointed venus clams fort myers beach florida

I betcha a SAND DOLLAR the next time I take a stroll on this beach, I will find a POINTED VENUS and be just as tickled as if I found a dollar bill on the beach.

birds on piling fort myers beach florida

Dont Forget to check out our new dates for Shellabaloo 5!

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