{"id":12970,"date":"2012-12-07T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:27:26","slug":"sanibel-christmas-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/sanibel-christmas-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel Christmas Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Be careful of what you wish for! \u00a0I’ve been secretly hoping for some “bling” for Christmas. Meaning like… shiny, pretty, glitzy wearable “bling”. But instead I got raggedy, stringy, gooey “bling”… BEACH BLING<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

If you know me, you know that I get more excited about discovering something new washing in on the beach than getting any new fancy, shiny jewelry. Errrrr.. well most of the time. LOL But really, I found this dried clump of \u00a0some sort of stringy mass at Lighthouse Beach today.<\/p>\n

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

Cool! So I looked a little closer to inspect its identity…. and realized that it’s a FIGHTING CONCH EGG STRING!<\/p>\n

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

The little eggs inside these strings will turn into this one day…<\/p>\n

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

Doesn’t that just blow your mind? And remember? Back in July, I saw a live FIGHTING CONCH laying her eggs (to see the post CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>)…<\/p>\n

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

Unfortunately the string I found today was too dried up for any of the eggs to make it but that’s why the females lay so many eggs. Some will make it! Any maybe that’s why at different time of the year we see thousands at time on the beach… maybe they are mating!<\/p>\n

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

See? This is why I love my BEACH BLING so much! There are endless possibilities of treasures Mother Nature will give us to ponder over. Like the other Bling I found \u00a0today. A RAGGED SEA HARE<\/strong><\/a>! Poor guy was washed up on the beach but I could see “he” was still alive and moving so I took hime to the water. I took a very quick video today but if you missed my last video on the RAGGED SEA HARE, it is waaaaayyyy better with a few added funnies CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is today’s version of me trying to save this SEA HARE and all of his “raggedness”. <\/p>\n

I didn’t find many keeper shells today at the Lighthouse Beach since I was too obsessed with the Bling. When I got home I still felt like I needed my shell fix so I finally rinsed (plain water, don’t use bleach!) off my COCQUINAS from earlier this week<\/strong><\/a>. Oh, and yes, I left in that cute little TURKEY WING too.<\/p>\n

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

Hope to see you at the parade<\/strong><\/a> tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Be careful of what you wish for! \u00a0I’ve been secretly hoping for some “bling” for Christmas. Meaning like… shiny, pretty, glitzy wearable “bling”. But instead I got raggedy, stringy, gooey “bling”… BEACH BLING! If you know me, you know that I get more excited about discovering something new washing in on the beach than getting […]<\/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":[45,46,1668,1678,2023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coquina","category-fighting-conch","category-fighting-conch-egg-string","category-ragged-sea-hare","category-sea-hare","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-3nc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","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=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12985,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}