{"id":14562,"date":"2013-04-12T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:24:38","slug":"stopping-for-seashells-a-marco-island-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/stopping-for-seashells-a-marco-island-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping For Seashells- A Marco Island Day Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Since we knew we’d be gone for the entire day, Clark<\/strong><\/a> and I packed up a cooler, snacks and a change of clothes to head for Marco Island, Florida for a day trip from Sanibel. Clark’s Rotary Club<\/strong><\/a> had an event in south Marco that we wanted to attend (he is still President – so proud of him!) so we figured if we had time on the way home, we’d stop at a beach. We did! We stopped at Tigertail Beach<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

This is the very first time we’ve been on this beach so we had to get the lay of the land by looking at the map (above). We decided to wade through the little lagoon to get to the gulf side beach on the other side…<\/p>\n

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

On my way over, I saw Jonathan and Rachel carrying handfuls of SAND DOLLARS…<\/p>\n

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

Wow! They said they found them all along the beach in the surf line…Cool!<\/p>\n

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

So wading through the lagoon and down a sweet beach path we went… to find our first treasures from the Gulf Of Mexico.<\/p>\n

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

All I started seeing was ROSE PETAL TELLINS! I love them!<\/p>\n

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

And double SUNRAY VENUS CLAMS…<\/p>\n

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

We could not find any SAND DOLLARS but that’s okay because we found so many other goodies like these two\u00a0FLAT SCALLOPS.\u00a0Clark’s beautiful orange one is on the left, and I found the larger perfect\u00a0(heehee)\u00a0purple one on the right. \u00a0I call them “FLATS” but they are really called \u00a0ZIGZAG SCALLOPS<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

Clark found the prettiest PURPLISH SEMELES<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

We both found CANCELLATE SEMELES<\/strong><\/a> as well…<\/p>\n

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

I was thrilled with all of the multi colored JINGLE SHELLS and those ROSE PETAL TELLINS!<\/p>\n

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

From Tigertail Beach in Marco, Florida traveling back by car to Sanibel Island it took us about 1 and 1\/2 hours by way of interstate 75…<\/p>\n

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

We didn’t even get there until after 4 pm and we stayed about 3 1\/2 hours to have a wonderful evening exploring a new beach.<\/p>\n

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

I am so glad we had the time to stop and take our time to walk down to the north end of the spit. It took us an hour and 1\/2 each way so I’m so glad we had plenty of water and thank goodness we always have shelling supplies and sunscreen in the car at all times. This was our loot we brought home… and yes, Super Sheller Clark found that gorgeous ALPHABET CONE I put right smack in the middle of our fabulous collection. Thanks Tigertail!<\/p>\n

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

Join us on our next trip tomorrow,\u00a0Saturday April 12, as we are taking a shelling cruise to explore the island of\u00a0Cayo Costa! Clark and I will show you where to find the hidden treasures of that beautiful island… CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"shelling-adventures-pam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since we knew we’d be gone for the entire day, Clark and I packed up a cooler, snacks and a change of clothes to head for Marco Island, Florida for a day trip from Sanibel. Clark’s Rotary Club had an event in south Marco that we wanted to attend (he is still President – so […]<\/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":[35,1734,46,41,1350,24,804,1642,271,47,48,1738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-cancellate-semele-semele","category-fighting-conch","category-flat-zigzag-scallop","category-day-trips-from-sanibel","category-jingle","category-marco-island","category-purplish-semele","category-rose-tellin","category-sand-dollar","category-sunray-venus","category-tigertail-beach-marco-florida","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-3MS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562","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=14562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27561,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions\/27561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}