{"id":11031,"date":"2012-06-17T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T14:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=11031"},"modified":"2012-06-17T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T14:15:38","slug":"snorkeling-and-sifting-for-seashells-on-sanibel-captiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/snorkeling-and-sifting-for-seashells-on-sanibel-captiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling and Sifting For Seashells On Sanibel Captiva"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0When the water is this calm and clear, snorkeling is just one more way to find the shells\u00a0on Sanibel and Captiva. Reed (Fort Myers)<\/a><\/strong> hit the jackpot…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0He and his family, Roxi and Elle, found an excellent way to shellebrate Father’s Day weekend…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0But then working that big shell pile on the Captiva side of Blind Pass, brought good luck to Joan (CT)…<\/p>\n

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

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

Need help identifying some of her shells? Check out my page of<\/p>\n

\u00a0Seashell Identification\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Within 10 minutes of sifting around in the big pile, I found some beauties too…<\/p>\n

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

Super Sheller Clark was sifting the water with his backhoe…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0He found similar shells plus found TULIPS and WHELKS (notice he still has his spiritual line<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on from Thailand)…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0We walked over the bridge to the Sanibel side and guess what we saw pull up to the beach in the distance… the dredging barge!<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0They were bringing the pipes on the beach. We walked down to see it but these guys were in no mood to deal with beachcombers (especially to get by to the other side of the…. ahem…. PUBLIC beach!). Honestly, I will be staying clear of these workers until they are done with the heavy lifting and I suggest you do the same. \u00a0So guess what… I have no more information on the dredging other than what you see here.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Okay, let’s get back to the the happiest sheller I met on Blind Pass this weekend. \u00a0Kathy from Tulsa, OK \u00a0was in hog heaven collecting seashells on the big Captiva pile…. then I noticed the nozzle on her shell bucket. She told me “I do 2 things really well. I make fantastic margaritas and I’m a really good sheller”. LOL It was a margarita bucket she was filling up with shells! hmmm Would that be called a Margashellita bucket?<\/p>\n

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

And we were even happier when we spotted three MANATEES near the jetty rocks! Here’s one coming up for air. See how close “he” is to the rocks?<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0When the water is this calm and clear, snorkeling is just one more way to find the shells\u00a0on Sanibel and Captiva. Reed (Fort Myers) hit the jackpot… \u00a0He and his family, Roxi and Elle, found an excellent way to shellebrate Father’s Day weekend… \u00a0But then working that big shell pile on the Captiva side of […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","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-2RV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","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=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11047,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions\/11047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}