{"id":16698,"date":"2013-09-22T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2013-09-29T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:26:24","slug":"back-on-the-beach-at-blind-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/22\/back-on-the-beach-at-blind-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Back On The Beach At Blind Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Low tide Sunday morning shelling at Blind Pass ….ahhhhhhh. Hawg heaven!<\/p>\n

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Even if there wasn’t a shell in site, I would have been a happy girl just to walk on the beach, breath the salty air, feel the waves touch my toes and hear birds singing their sea songs. But I did have a bonus… Shells!<\/p>\n

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While I was finding my mermaid loot, I met Lisa and Stan (Tampa) with their 2 kids Josh and Allison finding their own treasures from the sea.<\/p>\n

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Stan was snorkeling about chest high to find some CONCHS, OLIVES and an ALPHABET CONE that he pulled out of his pockets to show me…<\/p>\n

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But that wasn’t it! They had a big bucket filled with CORAL, PEN SHELLS, a few BANDED TULIPS, an APPLE MUREX and a nice SUNRAY VENUS.<\/p>\n

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I walked over to the Sanibel side of the pass and met Holly from Sanford, Florida who found an awesome orange HORSE CONCH.<\/p>\n

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I love this mid size HORSE CONCH! There are some BARNACLES around the lip and spire but I suggested waiting to get home before trying to get them off. When those barnacles are anywhere near that fragile lip, I suggest being very delicate picking around that lip by inserting a dental tool in the middle of the barnacle to work inside out first…being very easy. I’m sure it will clean up beautifully if you take your time… its worth it- that’s a fantastic find!<\/p>\n

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I even stopped by Gulfside City Park<\/strong><\/a> (mid island Sanibel) for a few minutes today too just long enough to find another tiny SAND DOLLAR. Sweet!<\/p>\n

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Okay, I can’t wait to show you a closer view of my other finds today. I was very happy to find a double ATLANTIC WING OYSTER<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0. I know it’s not so pretty on the outside…<\/p>\n

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But goodness… look at that special inside. It’s pearlescent!<\/p>\n

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My fave find of the day is an ALBINO FIGHTING CONCH!<\/p>\n

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It looks a little yellow because it has the PERIOSTRACUM (the skin) still on it but if I cleaned it completely off, it would be stark white…. ALBINO! Okay- this is funny…. When I told Clark I found an ALBINO, he first congratulated me then looked at my photo of it since I left the shells in the sink in the garage. He said “That’s not an ALBINO, Pam!” (Ha! He thinks he’s the ALBINO expert since… well, I’ll have to give it to him… he does have a knack for finding them). So I sashayed to my shell stash and brought him my shell. “Hmmmm….Oh, okay.” He said. HAHAHA<\/p>\n

I haven’t decided yet if I want all of the PERIOSTRACUM off yet so I’m going to be like Scarlett Ohara so… “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

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PS- Did you see “land” snail in my bucket too? I found a ROSY WOLF SNAIL<\/strong><\/a> (bottom left about 7 o’clock) on the path back to my car. It’s still “rosy”.<\/p>\n

**** \u00a0 Calling all shellers!\u00a0We are having a SHELLATHON in January\u00a0CLICK HERE for details<\/strong><\/a>! \u00a0 ****<\/h3>\n

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Low tide Sunday morning shelling at Blind Pass ….ahhhhhhh. Hawg heaven! Even if there wasn’t a shell in site, I would have been a happy girl just to walk on the beach, breath the salty air, feel the waves touch my toes and hear birds singing their sea songs. But I did have a bonus… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1817,1818,1608,5,37,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albino-fighting-conch-fighting-conch","category-albino-shells","category-atlantic-wing-oyster","category-blind-pass","category-horse-conch","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-sand-dollar","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\/16698","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=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}