{"id":10496,"date":"2012-05-02T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:30:12","slug":"beach-sea-whip-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/beach-sea-whip-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Sea Whip Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"purple<\/a><\/p>\n

While sifting through the BEACH BLING<\/a><\/strong> on the east end of Sanibel this past week, I found a purple SEA WHIPS. I’ve collected a few over the years because of their beauty but now I look very carefully at them because at times, I’ll see little surprise hitch hikers on them. Take a closer look…<\/p>\n

\"one-tooth<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you see the two shells attached to two different branches? They practically camo themselves on the branches, don’t they? They are called ONE-TOOTH SIMNIAS<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Simnialena<\/a><\/p>\n

On this SEA WHIP I found last week, there are two ONE-TOOTH SIMNIAS attached to this one as well…<\/p>\n

\"sea<\/a><\/p>\n

I plucked one of the shells off the branch. Look at how sleek it is.<\/p>\n

\"one-tooth<\/a><\/p>\n

I never find these washed up on the beach… I wonder why? I’m sure they are there so I’m going to keep my eyes peeled for them. Here is the other view…<\/p>\n

\"one-tooth<\/a><\/p>\n

Since this is a miniature shell I wanted to show you how big the ONE-TOOTH SIMNIA was in relation to a quarter. Unfortunately, all I see in this picture is George Washington getting comfy with one of those travel roll pillows around his neck. I hope you have better luck focusing on the size of the shell instead of the neck roll. ha!<\/p>\n

\"one-tooth<\/a><\/p>\n

I learned to look closely at SEA WHIPS because I saw a few displays in the scientific division of the 75th Sanibel Shell Fair and Show this year of interesting things that find homes on SEA WHIPS. Here is a very impressive display of a WEST INDIES CHANK SHELL EGG CASE attached to a SEA WHIP with the baby CHANK SHELLS coming out.<\/p>\n

\"chank<\/a><\/p>\n

Awesome, right? Expert sheller Marilee describes her exhibit as…<\/p>\n

“Egg case of Turbinella angulata<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0On sea plume (Pseudopterogorgia) Found on beach after storm near Jack’s Bay- Eleuthera Bahamas”<\/p>\n

This was an “Aha moment” for me since she left the egg case attached to the SEA PLUME. Now I always look at what’s attached to the SEA WHIPS or SEA PLUMES mixed in with all the BEACH BLING. Thank you Marilee! It was such a pleasure to meet you at the show.<\/p>\n

\"Moralee<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I have another surprise to show you on my next post about SEA WHIPS. I found another cool shell attached to them! Until then, take a look at another hitchhiker….a BRYOZOAN COLONY<\/a><\/strong> hanging out on this purple lovely.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While sifting through the BEACH BLING on the east end of Sanibel this past week, I found a purple SEA WHIPS. I’ve collected a few over the years because of their beauty but now I look very carefully at them because at times, I’ll see little surprise hitch hikers on them. Take a closer look… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1986,1646,119,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bryozoa","category-one-tooth-simnia","category-sanibel-shell-fair-and-show-festival","category-sea-whip","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-2Ji","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}