{"id":11617,"date":"2012-08-05T22:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2013-03-11T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:22:51","slug":"platinum-medal-winning-juvenile-junonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/platinum-medal-winning-juvenile-junonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Medal Winning Juvenile Junonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Since I awarded the SAND DOLLAR gold, silver, and bronze medal troph<\/a>ies<\/strong>\u00a0this week, I knew what I needed to do when I saw this tiny juvenile JUNONIA. I had to award another special seashell medal for the summer shelling Olympics.<\/p>\n

The Platinum<\/strong><\/a> Shelling medal!<\/p>\n

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

The Platinum Shelling Medal goes to Tobias from Fort Myers!<\/p>\n

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

As we all know, finding a JUNONIA is what we all strive for here in Sanibel and Captiva, but to find such a tiny perfect specimen is very rare… not to even mention how stinkin adorable it is. He found this trophy shell at Blind Pass Captiva near the bridge right where McKenzie found hers last week. Congratulations, Tobias<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

So speaking of rare finds, Donnie<\/strong><\/a> found another killer shell along with his bronze medal winning seashells<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>this weekend. It’s a little beat up but it really looks like a juvenile QUEEN HELMET!<\/p>\n

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

You can find QUEEN HELMETS<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the Caribbean, the Keys and on the east coast of Florida but they are not native to our area so this is a really rare find too. It’s amazing this made it here mostly in one piece with just some bumps and bruises.<\/p>\n

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

Okay, I already gave you a “medal” Donnie, so you’ll just have to add this shell to your other winners. hahaha Which here is a photo of the HELMET with his other awesome finds. He found part of a JUNONIA!<\/p>\n

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

Local sheller Michelle (with Eric) found a piece of JUNONIA too this weekend.<\/p>\n

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

Evan found a SAND DOLLAR and a JUNONIA piece too! Wow! They all found the JUNONIAS at low tide in the same place Tobias found his- Blind Pass.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Jeannie from Tampa found some great shells too…<\/p>\n

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

She found this nice WORM SHELL (Woohoo! WORMIE!), some pretty CALICO SCALLOPS and a bright orange CHESTNUT TURBAN (I wish I had gotten a better picture of that- i love those shells!).<\/p>\n

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

On the Sanibel side of Blind Pass I met the nicest family from Michigan plucking seashells right out of the surf. Meet Gail, Larry, Laura, Kevin and in the front row- Ella, Theo and Emma.<\/p>\n

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

They had just gotten to the beach but they all already found some faces…<\/p>\n

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

Congrats again to Tobias! Thanks for tweeting<\/strong><\/a> this photo!<\/p>\n

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

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Since I awarded the SAND DOLLAR gold, silver, and bronze medal trophies\u00a0this week, I knew what I needed to do when I saw this tiny juvenile JUNONIA. I had to award another special seashell medal for the summer shelling Olympics. The Platinum Shelling medal! The Platinum Shelling Medal goes to Tobias from Fort Myers! As […]<\/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":[1706,14,1673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helmet","category-junonia","category-queen-helmet-seashells","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-31n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","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=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14214,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}