{"id":16589,"date":"2013-09-13T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:59:58","slug":"another-beautiful-cruise-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/another-beautiful-cruise-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Beautiful Cruise in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a> boat pulled up to the shore of Cayo Costa at low tide around 1:30 yesterday …<\/p>\n

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Within minutes, Rachel (KS) found 4 LETTERED OLIVES, 2 FALSE ANGEL WINGS, and AUGER and the colors of the rainbow in JINGLE SHELLS.<\/p>\n

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Leanne (PA) strolled along the shore to find a true ANGEL WING and a few other goodies…<\/p>\n

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Ahhhhh. It was so good to get back to Cayo Costa!<\/p>\n

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I had the pleasure of meeting so many beautiful shellers while on the boat and walking the beach like sisters Beth and Barb (KY) who found SAND DOLLARS, WHELKS and OLIVES. Barb told me they have been hanging out with iLoveShelling.com since the very beginning… almost 4 years ago! She said she still has it bookmarked on her computer under my first blog name “My Shelling Blog”. Ha! I felt like I knew them already!<\/p>\n

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Patti and Tim (FL) were delightful! While Patti was shelling her heart out, Tim was photographing and videoing their whole day. What a good team!<\/p>\n

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Nancy and “Babe” looked like they were in heaven together all day. She was glowing! Then I found out why. Cameron had surprised her with the cruise for her birthday and she was thrilled. Happy Birthday Nancy! You guys are so stinkin adorable!\u00a0(heehee his name is Cameron but I just kept hearing Nancy say “Good find, Babe!” …. “Oh! Come here, Babe!” so cute)<\/p>\n

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John (MA) started out his trip to SW Florida as a birder but found that looking for different species of shells was just as much fun as looking for different species of birds. Here’s John picking up his first BABY’S EAR…<\/p>\n

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Boating was so much fun to0 as we got to see a BALD EAGLE in a nest, OSPREYS catching their fish lunch from the water, DOLPHINS playing…<\/p>\n

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And seeing that the WHITE PELICANS are back on the islands…<\/p>\n

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When we arrived back on Captiva, we had a little Shell ‘N Tell so we could share some of our shells and finds. Sharon was a joy to meet !<\/p>\n

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She picked up WHITE CRESTED TELLIN<\/strong><\/a> on Cayo Costa. I only see these on Cayo Costa. I dont think Ive ever seen one on Sanibel.<\/p>\n

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I’m so happy I got to meet \u00a0Jan (KY) since I think she must be an artist as well. Jan showed me one of her favorite finds which was covered in BARNACLES and other animal growth marks. I love that kind of stuff too!<\/p>\n

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Jerry found some really nice WHELKS on our trip but he told me also found a really large 10 inch empty WHELK at Blind Pass on Wednesday. He couldnt believe it because he thought he had stepped on a big rock in the water at low tide… then reached down and pulled up that huge LIGHTNING WHELK. WAHOO!<\/p>\n

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I was amazed at all the true ANGEL WINGS, FALSE ANGEL WINGS and even FALLEN ANGEL WINGS we found this time. Awesome!<\/p>\n

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The MANATEES even came over to send us off with well wishes…<\/p>\n

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It was a beautiful shelling cruise in paradise with a beautiful bunch of people.<\/p>\n

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Join us on the next iLoveShelling cruise! CLICK HERE FOR DATES<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before you go….<\/p>\n

We have TWO Winners to announce for the\u00a0Shelltastic SW FLorida Vacation Giveaway<\/strong><\/a>! :)<\/p>\n

Drum Roll Please! …..<\/p>\n

Our first winner for the Sealife By Congress<\/strong><\/a> stunning sterling silver Starfish Reef Pendant is………<\/p>\n

Kathie Porter!<\/p>\n

The Grand Prize Winner for 4days\/3 nights stay\u00a0in Fort Myers Beach is…..<\/p>\n

Denise Stahl (AS, FL)!<\/p>\n

Congratulations to you both! Sealife By Congress will be contacting you Kathie and Pointe Estero will contact you as well, Denise. So hold tight until you get your info! Thank you all for participating!<\/p>\n

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Our Captiva Cruises boat pulled up to the shore of Cayo Costa at low tide around 1:30 yesterday … Within minutes, Rachel (KS) found 4 LETTERED OLIVES, 2 FALSE ANGEL WINGS, and AUGER and the colors of the rainbow in JINGLE SHELLS. Leanne (PA) strolled along the shore to find a true ANGEL WING and […]<\/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":""},"categories":[33,116,142,1814,1368,24,1977,904,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angel-wing","category-captiva-cruises","category-cayo-costa-beachcombing","category-fallen-angel-wing","category-false-angel-wing-angel-wing","category-jingle","category-olive","category-white-crested-tellin","category-white-pelican","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","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=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}