{"id":17028,"date":"2013-10-20T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=17028"},"modified":"2013-10-20T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T01:07:09","slug":"breakfast-of-shelling-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/breakfast-of-shelling-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast of Shelling Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I may not be a champion but I like my weekend breakfast to be garnished with TULIPS while I fill up on PEARS….<\/p>\n

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Quite a few PEAR WHELKS …<\/p>\n

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With a little NUTMEG…<\/p>\n

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This weekend’s\u00a0low tides were in the early morning so it was such a treat to see the sunrise… and to collect the shells from the shallow tidal pools.<\/p>\n

But I started the weekend running into an\u00a0awesome family at Blind Pass Captiva around sunset as they were just packing up all the shells they found after snorkeling.\u00a0Paul, Darren, Gabe, Kyle, Emily, Ellie from Naples are all like shelling encyclopedias. They knew the names of all of their shells and little tid bits about them too. Hmmmm… “Enshellopedias”! Ha! They were so much fun to talk to…<\/p>\n

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They found lots of CONCHS, WHELKS, TULIPS, COCKLES, OLIVES \u00a0and all sorts of treasures. You know I love to peek at other people’s shells so I was thrilled to take a look into Paul’s green shell bag. Wanna see too? Ha! I knew it! Here you go… Fun!<\/p>\n

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The next morning at the Lighthouse Beach, I met Charity holding a double ATLANTIC GIANT COCKLE she was holding like a treasure box. It was a treasure box! She had filled the COCKLE with all of her other tiny treasures she found at low tide.<\/p>\n

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I met the rest of her family… Janssen, Lynn Ann and Joann visiting Sanibel from the Tampa area…<\/p>\n

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Lynn Ann told me that they found all of these shell like the fab SHARKS EYE, HORSE CONCH and APPLE MUREXES (and the SEA BEAN) at the tip of the island in front of the lighthouse.<\/p>\n

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At low tide, it’s always glorious to see and touch live MOLLUSKS… especially this live 14 inch HORSE CONCH. No worries- this creature was very happy to be put back into the water where it could keep healthy and hopefully have lots of babies.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never been much of a morning person (I know. Sounds crazy for an obsessed sheller like me to say that but it’s just the truth)… so I hope this next season I learn to enjoy mornings like I did this weekend. I meet people like Angela from the Outer Banks of North Carolina who was too shy for me to take her picture but made a big impression on me. It was a pleasure to talk with you Angela!<\/p>\n

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But now that I think about it, I doesn’t really matter what time of day it is. I always find shells and I always meet awesome people shellers. I meet them finding shells at breakfast time , lunch time , afternoon snack time, dinner and evening snack time. It really doesnt matter! Errrr. I might sleep in tomorrow morning. heehee<\/p>\n

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