Hundreds of fighting conchs on Sanibel beach

King Neptune must have lots of fun seeing our jaws drop when he pulls the tide out and lets us peek at all the living creatures on the sea bed during a full moon.

Sanibel full moon shelling at low tide

I can just see Mother Nature giggling at him then scattering a few empty treasures on the shore and coloring the sky to play along in the Neptune’s beach drama game.

Few of my fave beach finds Sanibel

Clark was happy to play along to collect her shell loot.

Clark's Sanibel shells one May eve

Chris and Jamie (MO) were there to witness the fun of King Neptune and Mother Nature.

Chris and Jamie MO find Sanibel seashells

They sounded just like Clark and me when we “co-mingle” our shells and then try to claim the ones we “know” we found. “No, I found that one!”-  “No, you didn’t, I found that ALPHABET CONE”. hahaha Well whoever found it, it’s going to the same house so all is good.

Chris Jamie Sanibel shells

Jason along with his kids Grayson, Katelyn, Leah and Gavin were at Lighthouse beach to see the amazement of all of the live FIGHTING CONCHS. They all found empty shells as well to take home to Jacksonville to have fun identifying later.

Shellers Grayson, Jason, Katelyn, Leah, Gavin from Jacksonville

Oh my… and the BEACH BLING. Such cool bling like MUREX EGG CASE (back), MERMAID PURSES (SKATE EGG CASES), CORAL, SEA WHIPS, URCHINS, STRIATE PIDDOCKS drilling holes in DRIFT WOOD and a black ROUGH SCALLOP.

Beach Bling. marine egg capsules coral sea whips

And there’s one more egg case we can’t quite positively identify… anybody know?

seashells egg case capsules

My fave thing the whole weekend was this little tiny heart drilled in a PEN SHELL. I don’t know why… it just made me incredibly happy to discover it when there was so much obvious beauty surrounding me.

Sweet heart in a penn shell

It made me feel like a kid.

little shellers collecting sea shells

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