{"id":12944,"date":"2012-12-02T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=12944"},"modified":"2015-09-17T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T02:06:02","slug":"collecting-coquinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/collecting-coquinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Coquinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"orange coquinas\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/collecting-coquinas\/orange-coquinas\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas.png\" data-orig-size=\"549,411\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"orange coquinas\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;orange coquinas&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;orange coquinas&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12946 aligncenter\" title=\"orange coquinas\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas-300x224.png\" alt=\"orange coquinas\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/orange-coquinas.png 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The double COQUINAS are back! We do see single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-coquina-cover-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>COQUINAS<\/strong><\/a> all year long on our beaches of Sanibel and Captiva but I don&#8217;t see these beautiful butterfly shaped shells all year long like we&#8217;ve seen lately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Coquina shells sanibel beach\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/collecting-coquinas\/coquina-shells-sanibel-beach\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS19&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1354358763&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Coquina shells sanibel beach&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Coquina shells sanibel beach\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Coquina shells sanibel beach&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Coquina shells sanibel beach&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12945 aligncenter\" title=\"Coquina shells sanibel beach\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coquina shells sanibel beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Coquina-shells-sanibel-beach.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was so much fun picking them up one right after the other, it reminded me of \u00a0the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"How To Find Wentletrap Shells On Sanibel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/how-to-find-wentletrap-shells-on-sanibel\/\" target=\"_blank\">WENTLING<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>vid I did a while ago. Since you&#8217;ve given great feedback on my videos of my beach walks, I thought you&#8217;d enjoy collecting COQUINAS with me too. It&#8217;s a little long but I didn&#8217;t know where to cut it shorter&#8230;. sooooo, I \u00a0still hope you like it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t4heAnRr9rk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They are so cute, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"coquina handful\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/collecting-coquinas\/coquina-handful\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful.png\" data-orig-size=\"494,379\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"coquina handful\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;coquina handful&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12947\" title=\"coquina handful\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful-300x230.png\" alt=\"coquina handful\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/coquina-handful.png 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t Forget \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/iloveshellingshop\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iLoveShelling merchandise<\/strong><\/a> for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The double COQUINAS are back! We do see single COQUINAS all year long on our beaches of Sanibel and Captiva but I don&#8217;t see these beautiful butterfly shaped shells all year long like we&#8217;ve seen lately. It was so much fun picking them up one right after the other, it reminded me of \u00a0the\u00a0WENTLING\u00a0vid I [&hellip;]<\/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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coquina","category-coquina-video","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-3mM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944","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=12944"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23745,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}