{"id":17154,"date":"2013-10-29T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T03:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=17154"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:13:58","slug":"as-the-island-terns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/as-the-island-terns\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Island Terns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As October is coming to an end, so is SEA TURTLE nesting season. This means that most or all of the nests have hatched already so we don’t have to worry about those little babies making their way from the nest to the water \u2026. sooooo \u2026.bring on the beach art!<\/p>\n

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

Seasons come and go and so do the shells and BEACH BLING. Over the weekend I found some sweet juvie SAND DOLLARS but I went back to Gulfside City Park today and didn’t find any at all. Not one! But that’s what shelling is all about\u2026 enjoy the treasures that Mother Nature has put before you at the moment because they may not be there any other day.<\/p>\n

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

I had a few extra minutes today so I ran to the Lighthouse Beach since I haven’t been hanging out there as much lately. So happy I did. It’s always a good day when I find a BROAD PAPER COCKLE!<\/p>\n

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In just a few minutes I could have picked up oodles of CERITHS and in the same spot\u2026. one LIGHTNING WHELK, one TULIP, a TARPON SCALE and what I think is the smallest double PONDEROUS ARK I’ve ever seen. Honestly, I haven’t had time to inspect it so it could be a double TRANSVERSE ARK but it had that beautiful black periostracom. They look so much alike! If I figure it out, I’ll take better photos then do another post.<\/p>\n

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

Okay, I HAVE to share the funniest comment on my last post<\/strong><\/a> that made me literally laugh out loud today. Really, I was hanging with some friends this afternoon and I snuck a peak at my iPhone to see a new blog comment from Andrea. \u00a0I didn’t want to be rude, but I read the first line and got completely engrossed then let out a huge belly laugh. I know, so rude to my friends but after I read the comment to them, we all laughed out loud together. So this is\u00a0the photo of ROYAL TERNS (and SANDWICH TERNS) I posted that Andrea commented on…<\/p>\n

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

Andrea wrote\u2026<\/p>\n

“I guess they wanted to take terns shelling.<\/em>
\nI hope it doesn\u2019t take a tern for the worst!<\/em>
\nThey say one good tern deserves another.<\/em>
\nI hope they re-tern to Sanibel when I\u2019m there!<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, I\u2019m done with the tern jokes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just hope everyone doesn\u2019t tern on me<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

LOL Thank you Andrea, it terned out so great I just had to share it again.<\/p>\n

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

Our next Shelling Adventure is November 7<\/strong><\/a>\u2026 Join Us!<\/p>\n

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As October is coming to an end, so is SEA TURTLE nesting season. This means that most or all of the nests have hatched already so we don’t have to worry about those little babies making their way from the nest to the water \u2026. sooooo \u2026.bring on the beach art! Seasons come and go […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1824,1505,261,1382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-art-2","category-broad-paper-cockle","category-royal-tern","category-sandwich-tern","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-4sG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154","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=17154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17168,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions\/17168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}