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Surf’s Up

Not only are shellers excited when the seas get stirred up from a brewing storm but the surfers come out in droves. I grew up in Virginia Beach where the surfers have all summer to fine tune their skills so I’m amazed when I see...

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Waiting for Ida’s Wake

Catagory 1 Hurricane Ida is spinning in the gulf waters. My first thought is that I hope she fizzles out before she can do any damage to any coastal cities. Living on the coast is no laughing matter when any named storm is...

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Kitten’s Paws

The Red Tide is gone and so are most of the shells on the beaches I have visited. When I walked up to the Captiva side of Blind Pass, I saw the same picked over broken shell pile that I’ve seen the last few days with only one...

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Not Very Exciting

There aren’t many shells on mid-Captiva. The huge shell mound at Blind Pass is gone. West Gulf had a few clam and scallop shells and that’s about it. I made it to the east end on Sanibel (the lighthouse) to find …well, not...

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