sand dollar in the palm of a hand

There are many treasures to be found each and every time you take a walk on the beach. I feel that way about any beach… even when they don’t have gobs of shells like we do in Southwest Florida.

seashells on a beach at dusk

I couldn’t help but find beautiful treasures among the many shells that lined the shore last night at Gulfside City Park but my mission last night was to enjoy the scenery and breath in the salty air to help me collect my thoughts.  Every beach in the world tends to have that effect on me.

slice of beach peaceslice of beach peace

After taking in the sights and feeling that curtain of calmness take over, I’m always surprised that the simplest of things can make me giddy. It gave me so much pleasure to see this sweet COCKLE SHELL with a heart etched in its side… or is it a butterfly?

butterfly heart on a seashell

I headed for the high dry wrack line, and saw a few mini shells like this…

some sweet mini seashells and broken bits

If I had spent more time sifting through this one area, I could have raked in oodles of TUSK SHELLS and who know what other minis. That itty bitty KEYHOLE LIMPET, teenie weenei WENTLETRAP, sweet TULIP and awesome little GULF OYSTER DRILL were enough for me for the moment.

little tiny seashells found on the beach

I didn’t want to miss the changing sky!

Blue sky, Clouds and seashells at dusk

Plus, I knew Clark was collecting some of our faves.

some shells in the scoop

It was such a beautiful evening.

shell filled beach at low tide dusk

Honestly, I’m so excited for our iLoveShelling Adventure to Big Hickory Island with Sight Sea-R Cruises on Wednesday! That’s the day I know will be a blast and shelltastic shelling day to scour the island for treasures. If you are in the area, you should join us for an awesome day on this new shelling adventure- CLICK HERE to see some of the fun we’ve had so far! CLICK HERE to reserve your spot

sight sea-r shelling adventures 2014 2015

 

Dont forget! With each scheduled cruise through February, each passenger on an iLoveShelling cruise will receive at $25 Gift Certificate to Sealife By Congress jewelry store on Sanibel. Yay!

SLBC iLSPromo

 

And…. We had a cool surprise visitor too! A SHARK took a stroll along the shoreline while we watched in silence. No worries, he didn’t want anything to do with us and moved around anybody in the water… not that I wanted to get in his way though- LOL

PS- I took all of these photos and the video on my new iPhone 6. I’m loving it so far!