{"id":13022,"date":"2012-12-14T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2012-12-14T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:58:02","slug":"gulfside-city-park-low-tide-seashells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/14\/gulfside-city-park-low-tide-seashells\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulfside City Park Low Tide Seashells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Magnificent seashell treasures can be found on Sanibel when\u00a0so much of the beach is exposed during very low tides like this morning at Gulfside City Park.<\/p>\n

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Shelling at a really low tide gives you several beach combing options as well. The high tide wrack line can produce new shells to sift through but I always feel like I \u00a0can look through those shells on my walk back since it will take some time for the tide to come back in to cover those up.<\/p>\n

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So I search the tidal pools and areas of the beach that are newly exposed at the shore line which will be covered up quickly when the tide starts to come in. That’s where I found an ANGEL WING and DOUBLE ATLANTIC GIANT COCKLE..<\/p>\n

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Oodles of juvie FIGHTING CONCHS…<\/p>\n

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During these low tides, shells (MOLLUSKS) may still be alive or have live HERMIT CRABS in them so you have to look very carefully not to take any shells with live creatures in them. So when I saw this upside down SHARK’S EYE , I still had to check to make sure there was no live animal inside. Nope! Nobody was home! A keeper!<\/p>\n

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Along with the SHARK’S EYE, I kept this gorgeous multicolored CALICO SCALLOP, double JEWELBOX and a pretty orange-ish TRUE TULIP…<\/p>\n

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Speaking of SHARK’S EYES, Jeanne from South Carolina found this aaawesooome one…<\/p>\n

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She and her daughter Rachel were finding their shell loot by combing the tide pool.<\/p>\n

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These were Rachel’s faves she found…<\/p>\n

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Did you spot that orange JINGLE near the tip of her finger? It has both valves! Yes, it’s a double JINGLE! She said it was just laying in the very shallow water in the tidal pool not attached to anything. I rarely see both sides together without having to pry it off a PEN SHELL. Cool! Here’s a better view…<\/p>\n

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I also met Shannon from new Hampshire who collected a whole bag of goodies…<\/p>\n

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Her favorites included a PAPER FIG…<\/p>\n

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Further down the beach, I met Mary from Charlottesville, VA …<\/p>\n

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I was super excited to see she picked up part of a FULGURATOR OLIVE<\/strong><\/a>. She had no idea what it was but knew it was special enough to keep it. The same goes for the THORNY OYSTER (the bivalve with the orange around the edge). I rarely see those shells.<\/p>\n

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If you want to see exactly what it looked like on my shelling walk this morning, \u00a0clicking the next video image!<\/p>\n\n

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Magnificent seashell treasures can be found on Sanibel when\u00a0so much of the beach is exposed during very low tides like this morning at Gulfside City Park. Shelling at a really low tide gives you several beach combing options as well. The high tide wrack line can produce new shells to sift through but I always […]<\/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":[845,1685,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantic-giant","category-fulgurator-olive","category-sharks-eye","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-3o2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","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=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13043,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}