{"id":17537,"date":"2013-11-30T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:28:58","slug":"captiva-holiday-weekend-shellaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/captiva-holiday-weekend-shellaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Captiva Holiday Weekend Shellaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Thanksgiving holiday weekend has been such a Shellaganza in Southwest Florida, it’s been hard to choose which beach to shell first! But as you know by my last post<\/strong><\/a>, we chose to shell Blind Pass Captiva on Thursday and hit the mother load. I’m so happy we found soooo many good shells, but it’s not only that we found shells\u2026 I’m thrilled that everybody found amazing shells like this…<\/p>\n

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And I got to meet so many awesome shellers like Skip and Tina. Tina found the spectacsheller SCOTCH BONNET and Skip found the amazing ALPHABET CONE, FLAT SCALLOP and gorgeous TRUE TULIP. And those were just a few shells they found. Their bag (in the first photo) was filled to the brim with incredible shells. It was a pleasure to meet you both!<\/p>\n

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I also met Jessica, Lyle and Matthew from Virginia who now know how addicting shelling can be after finding so many shells like this in only a couple of hours. They didn’t know the names of many of the shells, so I peeked in their bags to tell them the names of most of the shells in their bags\u2026 LIGHTNING WHELKS, FIGHTING CONCHS, APPLE MUREXES, LETTERED OLIVES, BANDED TULIPS\u2026 But OMG, Wait!<\/p>\n

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Jessica found a CABRITS MUREX! Boom Shellalaka! It was mixed in with all of the other shells and had a small hole in it but I told her that was a pretty rare shell to find in our area. Very nice find!<\/p>\n

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James and his brother Jacob (from Chicago) are experienced shellers who named all of the shells they found – which BTW, was very impressive. It tickled me so much though when James snatched a perfect bright orange HORSE CONCH out of the water and shouted “Score!”. Yes you did, Jacob!<\/p>\n

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It was so much fun to see everybody finding such beautiful treasure. Local sheller Roma (who never lets me photograph her- silly girl ;)) never even got wet by the waves as she sat in the shell pile digging away. She found all of these shells in one small area…<\/p>\n

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As you saw in the video<\/strong><\/a> on Thanksgiving Day, Clark didn’t want to get wet since we had plans later in the day for our big meal but after finding these 2 ALPHABET CONES right next to each other coming in with surf\u2026 it was all over.<\/p>\n

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Super Sheller Clark<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was soaked by the time we got to our car.<\/p>\n

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Uuuuuhhhhh\u2026 and so was I.<\/p>\n

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A few minutes after Clark took that picture, I found a JUNONIA! Yes, it is a little beat up and cracked but I was very thrilled! I showed it on my last post but I love that photo so much, here it is again. These were the best of our finds on Thursday\u2026<\/p>\n

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After shelling for countless hours Thanksgiving morning, we decided it was time to pack it up. While loading up the car with all of our loot, we met this sweetheart family Linda, Eliana and Nik from Pennsylvania ready to adventure out to find their own treasures. Prepared with shelling scoops, bags and a fantastic attitude I’m sure they found all of the shells they could hope for. So nice to meet y’all!<\/p>\n

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But that’s not all folks! I know this is a long post but I have so much to catch you up on since \u2026 really\u2026. its been a Shellaganza. \u00a0I have met so many nice folks while shelling and that was just on Thursday. I want you to meet more folks that I was shelling with yesterday (Friday) at Blind Pass (Turner Beach)<\/strong><\/a> it was a Sit N Sift kind of day…<\/p>\n

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The shells weren’t crashing up on the beach any more but they were buried in a mound of shells. These were all found sittin’ ‘n siftin’ by Jeff and Donna from Palm Beach Gardens\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t that amazing? Jeff and Donna were sitting right here to find a CARRIER SHELL, GAUDY NATICA, SHARKS EYES, ALPHABET CONES, FLORIDA CONES, FLATS, TULIPS\u2026 and on and on. Love it!<\/p>\n

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Shelling Sistah Connie Knight<\/strong> <\/a>was deep into the shelling zone with her cute hat and tee on :)<\/p>\n

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It was so much fun to meet her shelling family on this big pile of gems\u2026 meet Zach, Lori and Nate with Connie all visiting from Iowa<\/p>\n

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I always love to see that rich chocolate color in the LACE MUREX Nate found along with his other favorite shells…<\/p>\n

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Local shellers Bob and Sue couldn’t resist sifting through the pile looking for a few unusual shells but I think were having more fun giving OLIVES to the other shellers. :) There were so many OLIVES!<\/p>\n

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I met sweet Patti Goodwin on last month’s iLoveShelling Cruise to Cayo Costa<\/strong><\/a> (“Woop!” heehee) but this time I got to meet her husband Curt too. They arrived when I was about to leave so I hope y’all found some good treasures.<\/p>\n

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I saw\u00a0Becky and Wade<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0again too. They had been at the Lighthouse Beach on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) and told me it was a great day shelling there too.<\/p>\n

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Wade found this Mega True Tulip at Lighthouse Beach! Woohoo! It was a fabulous day on all of the beaches of Southwest Florida!<\/p>\n

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Since returning from Cat Island,<\/strong><\/a> things have been a whirl wind\u2026 literally… with the wind whipping from the north bringing such exciting shelling days for us here at home. Then preparing for the big holiday, I haven’t been able to find one extra second to clean our Caribbean shells<\/strong><\/a> from our vacation or much less finish telling you all about it. I’m so sorry but when local shells arrive, I want you to know about it ASAP! So if you are anywhere near SW Florida and want to do a little shelling, most of the beaches have some great shells and some really interesting BEACH BLING to explore. Once I slow down and finish up local exploring (Island Inn<\/strong><\/a> beach has great shells too!) , I’ll share the rest of our adventure to the Bahamas so you will have more info on other shells from around the world.<\/p>\n

Want to shell together? Join me on the next iLoveShelling Cruise to Cayo Costa Friday December 6, 2013 at 9am<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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