On your WHELK. Get CERITH. GO Shelling! For the past 3 days, Southwest Florida has been peppered with high winds, rough and choppy seas in Gulf Of Mexico, rain showers and extreme tides. Thank goodness we didn’t get a...
Read MoreIsn’t it crazy how beautiful these shells are? This is about the biggest empty PEAR WHELK I’ve ever seen! The colors of this LIGHTNING WHELK are stunning. These beautiful shells were found by these beautiful shellers...
Read MoreTo start a seashell art project, the first thing on the “to do list” is find shells. Check. Then the shells have to be cleaned and dried. Check. Then the shells should be sorted by species and color. Check. Depending...
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I feel like I just got back from being on the Amazing Shell Race in the Carolinas! Look at the...
Read MoreA new shelling destination! Our iLoveShelling Adventure with Captiva Cruises has lead us to explore a new part of to Cayo Costa island… and its so cool. We had quite the adventure as the temperature dropped to the low 50s...
Read MoreShells, shells and more shells rolled in the week after the storms hit SW Florida this week. Folks who didn’t mind getting their toes wet at the surf’s edge for a couple of hours were rewarded with some a-maaaazing...
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Shell trip! Clark and I took a beach combing road trip from Sanibel Island to Pass-A-Grille over...
Read MoreLife on a tropical island is magical. Our skies change from blue to pink to orange to grey any given moment bringing rain showers to cool off from the heat of the day which produce rainbows and picturesque reflections. On my...
Read MoreCould you imagine finding these 2 huge empty HORSE CONCHS wading through the Sanibel gulf waters? Well Diane Foley and her sister-in-law not only found 2 off Middle Gulf Drive… they found 5 of these gorgeous treasured...
Read MoreAs the tide was rushing out of Sanibel’s Blind Pass channel, there were little pockets of semi-buried shells in the sand along the shoreline covered by only 3 inches of water. That’s where the treasures were last...
Read MoreShellzam! Super Sheller Clark found an incredishell 11 inch LIGHTNING WHELK this weekend. All along the Sanibel shoreline from Blind Pass to Bowman’s Beach, there were strings of shells lining the beach just waiting to be...
Read MoreAs we celebrate new days watching the sun rise over the horizon at low tide in the new year on Sanibel… We also shellebrate the gifts of the sea… We also celebrate the gift of witnessing living creatures exposing...
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