{"id":10848,"date":"2012-05-30T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:10:43","slug":"rosy-days-at-blind-pass-captiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/rosy-days-at-blind-pass-captiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosy Days at Blind Pass Captiva"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0The shells at Blind Pass have shifted from the Sanibel side to a huge beautiful pile on the Captiva side because of a few days of northwest winds earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0It was like old times watching the shells roll up in the surf only to quickly fall back in the Gulf playing catch me if you can. I thought I caught “the big guy” when I saw the tip of this JUNONIA right on top of the pile. Dang! The whole back end was gone. Oh well, he’s still pretty.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0I did find a prize when I met Candy and her\u00a0sister-in-law\u00a0Angela. I am soooo tickled they are in their iLoveShelling tank tops<\/a><\/strong>! Awww- so cute. \u00a0Thanks you guys!<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Talking about cuties… Jordyn and her mom Lisa were enjoying sifting through the big shell pile too.<\/p>\n

\"jordyn,<\/a><\/p>\n

They had started filling up their shell bag with the SANIBEL SIX<\/a><\/strong>. They got the hardest one to find… the CONE but still needed the TULIP (I think the WORMIE makes up for the TULIP!).<\/p>\n

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

Then Jordyn held out a shell that they said they couldn’t identify. I looked at the shell and had to laugh. No! I didn’t laugh at them… I laughed because Tricia Gorman had just posted (2 days ago)\u00a0on\u00a0iLoveShelling Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>a “mystery shell” she found at the Sanibel lighthouse.<\/strong>\u00a0It was the same shell.\u00a0<\/strong>It’s a land snail but for some reason the name of it always escapes me.<\/p>\n

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

So since I can never remember the name of it, Holly Giehler identified it as a ROSY WOLF SNAIL. Yes, that’s it! Holly, you have got an eye! Remember her? She was the first one to guess where our Thailand CONES<\/strong> <\/a>were found too. So thanks to Tricia, Holly, and Jordyn I don’t think I’ll ever forget the name of this land snail that sometimes washes up from the Gulf Of Mexico on our beaches. It’s a ROSY WOLF SNAIL<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Note to self: remember this!).<\/p>\n

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

Although we had more lines of SEAWEED than usual washing in with the waves and shells, the Gulf was a brilliant blue with shades of aqua and green highlighted with creamy white caps coming in from the north. I captured just a few seconds of this on video. Enjoy the wind, water, waves… and shells! (oh, and please ignore that big splash on my lens. geez. I got a little too close!)<\/p>\n

FYI- Dredging will start at Blind Pass beginning next week and run through August to open up the pass. When they start pumping the sand on to Bowman’s Beach… there could be shells, people! Click HERE<\/strong> <\/a>for details.<\/p>\n

FYI #2- More Thailand pics coming soon. (but don’t worry! I’ll keep you posted on Southwest Florida beaches too)<\/p>\n

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

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