{"id":11936,"date":"2012-09-03T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:15:15","slug":"seashells-and-the-shellinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/seashells-and-the-shellinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Seashells and The Shellinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

How does Donnie keep finding such incredible shells? On August 20 post<\/a><\/strong>, I showed yall all of the incredible shells he found right after Hurricane Isaac passed us by…but now this huge HORSE CONCH too? Wow! Debbie Yuhr said it best… “he should be named The Shellinator!” Bahahaha Perfect!<\/p>\n

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

As you can see, The Shellinator had some competition.<\/p>\n

Okay, Beeep Beep (the sound of a truck backing up) before I go any further I have to tell y’all what else happened this past week. My iPhone died. Long story short… I lost all of my voice memo notes. You see, when I meet someone on the beach for the first time, I have to take notes on my iPhone because I am terrible at remembering names. I also have a hard time spelling names so it’s become a crutch to just talk into my phone recorder. So all of my notes were lost when I iPhone died and the guys at the Apple store couldn’t recover them all. Aawk-Waaard! So I’m going to show you some photos of people with only nick names. You have no idea how embarrassed I am so… please, please, please comment on this post if you are one of these people to tell me your real name so I can recover from this mess. Okay,  now on with the story of the awesome shelling this week.<\/p>\n

The Shellinator had some competition… I saw our friend Mary<\/a> <\/strong>walking down the beach with a huge HORSE CONCH too! She told me that a German guy gave it to her after she commented on how pretty it was. Yes you read that correctly. The German guy just gave it to her because he said it was too stinky to take it on the plane tomorrow back to Germany. Wow! Here is “The German Guy” (heehee) and Mary with his gift to her…<\/p>\n

UPDATE: “The German Guy” has a name now! Glad you had a great time in Florida, Andrew (from Bavaria)! And yes, Mary loves that shell!<\/p>\n

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“Fort Myers Shelling Mom” and her daughter  “I Live In Texas But I Want To Be Back In Florida” were  finding shells on the beach, in the water and every where they looked.<\/p>\n

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

Deana and her daughter Valerie (whew, I recovered a few!) found an ALPHABET CONE and their first ANGEL WING.<\/p>\n

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

I saw cutie Shelling Sister Leanne pull this gorgeous dark orange FLORIDA CONE out of the water just a few feet from me.<\/p>\n

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

Shelling Sister Kathy (Oh please tell me I got your name right!) used this strainer to scoop up her goodies.<\/p>\n

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

I love the shell bags! They have a strap for cross shoulder handsfree shelling. These “Strappy Happy Shellers” had plenty of room for all of their treasures.<\/p>\n

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

I saw Shellcrafter Jean<\/a> <\/strong>collecting minis for her art.<\/p>\n

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She’s holding two nice DUSKY CONES in her hand but her bucket looks empty….oh no it isn’t. Lots of WENTLEPTRAPS are hiding in that round container inside her cute pink bucket.<\/p>\n

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Then I visited Blind Pass Captiva again to find our friend Sue (Illinois) with a really cool HORSE CONCH. It’s white with a yellow top!<\/p>\n

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

Then I saw Shelling Sistah Lauren with bags of shells… with her iLoveShelling bag and tee! Adorable!<\/p>\n

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

But Wait! What? One of those bags was filled to the brim with SAND DOLLARS! Yowza! See how grayish they are? They arent completely white but you could tell they all had been dead for a day or so since their “fur” (it’s really their feet which is how they breath) was gone. Score! And she found dried MILLIPEDE STARFISH and everything in between not even to mention a huge chunk of JUNONIA. She said she found them all walking from Bowman’s Beach to Blind Pass. That is quite a hike! She deserves all of these treasures!<\/p>\n

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As I was about to leave Blind Pass, my friend Diane<\/strong> <\/a>and her visiting girlfriends (they call themselves “Chicks On The Go”!) Juli, Denise, Marsha, Vicki, Diane and Jackie from St Louis swarmed the beach to instantly find great shells. Let me tell you, these chicks know how to have a good time!<\/p>\n

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And like most shellers at Blind Pass this week, they found their SANIBEL SIX<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

PS- Happy Labor Day… gone shelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does Donnie keep finding such incredible shells? On August 20 post, I showed yall all of the incredible shells he found right after Hurricane Isaac passed us by…but now this huge HORSE CONCH too? Wow! Debbie Yuhr said it best… “he should be named The Shellinator!” Bahahaha Perfect! As you can see, The Shellinator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11951,"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":[35,11,453,36,37,98,47,2030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-conch","category-dusky-cone","category-florida-cone","category-horse-conch","category-millipede-starfish","category-sand-dollar","category-sanibel-six","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/twin-horse-conchs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-36w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","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=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29220,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions\/29220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}