{"id":14659,"date":"2013-04-21T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T02:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2013-04-21T22:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T02:49:48","slug":"tarpon-beach-top-shelf-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/tarpon-beach-top-shelf-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarpon Beach Top Shelf Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

These shells are the cream of the crop! This is any shellers dream to find a handful of shells like this. I’m talking… not just a TULIP… but a gorgeous nice size red TRUE TULIP. And not just a FLORIDA CONE, but a deep orange FLORIDA CONE with a purple tip. That PEAR WHELK is so yellow! And that size HORSE CONCH? Not so easy to find. And as you can see, I could go on. I just can’t believe I haven’t spent more time at Tarpon Beach (at the end of Tarpon Bay Rd on the Gulf side)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>It’s been a gold mine the last few weeks! Laura and Ken from CT were shelling with their family Jaime and Matthew who live in Fort Myers hit the right spot…<\/p>\n

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

Matthew told me the whole family has been shelling for over 20 years on Sanibel so they know what to look for and knew they had some top shelf shells.<\/p>\n

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

And they love to search the water!<\/p>\n

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

The water wasn’t the only place there were shells. The WENTLETRAPS are there as well. You can see this one trying to hide in the sand…. sorry buddy! I see you!<\/p>\n

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

I was so surprised to find a BABY’S EAR too…<\/p>\n

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

Clark and I also hit Sanibel’s Blind Pass this weekend too. There are lots of shells still on the canal side of the pass under the bridge.<\/p>\n

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

That’s where we met Jude from NY decked out in her skin suit to cover up from the harmful rays of the sun. Hey Judy, that’s pretty smart! (I couldnt resist)<\/p>\n

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

She was thrilled with her finds! She found everything from WORM ROCK to a DOUBLE ALTERNATE TELLIN to a COCKLE full of minis…<\/p>\n

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

Right under the bridge, Janet from Sanibel (too shy for me to take her picture!) found this awesome FLAT SCALLOP.<\/p>\n

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

Clark and I found a few goodies this weekend that we’ve never found before!\u00a0I get so excited to find something new! I hate\u00a0to be a little bit of a tease but I have to get some good pictures of them then I’ll show you our finds tomorrow. Okay, okay…. I’ll give you a hint on our finds. The one I found is a shell that’s a little rounded on the TOP. The one Clark found isn’t a shell but it protects a MOLLUSK but not SHARKS.<\/p>\n

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

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These shells are the cream of the crop! This is any shellers dream to find a handful of shells like this. I’m talking… not just a TULIP… but a gorgeous nice size red TRUE TULIP. And not just a FLORIDA CONE, but a deep orange FLORIDA CONE with a purple tip. That PEAR WHELK is […]<\/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":[35,905,144,10,41,36,37,108,2045,253,2047,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-alternate-tellin","category-babys-ear","category-cone","category-flat-zigzag-scallop","category-florida-cone","category-horse-conch","category-pear-whelk","category-scallop","category-true-tulip-tulip","category-tulip","category-wentletrap","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-3Or","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","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=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14675,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}