{"id":17801,"date":"2013-12-26T15:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:02:55","slug":"happy-sanibel-shelling-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/happy-sanibel-shelling-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Sanibel Shelling in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just as Clark and I stepped on the beach yesterday, we saw a string of shells on the shoreline of Blind Pass Sanibel and the happy site of lots of Sanibel Stoopers.<\/p>\n

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As we got closer to the sand bar, we saw a mound of shells \u2026 YIPPEE! A \u00a0shell pile!\u00a0Frances from Texas and her granddaughter Kelly “Sittin’ N Siftin” for shells.<\/p>\n

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

In their bags, they collected CONCHS, COCKLES and OLIVES but their favorites were lots of CHESTNUT TURBANS, large AUGERS, \u00a0an ALTERNATE TELLIN, CONCHS and WHELKS.<\/p>\n

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Oooooh\u2026 And Helene and her daughter Wendy<\/strong><\/a> found a JUNONIA “cob”.<\/p>\n

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

Wendy also found an ALPHABET CONE as well but there’s more…<\/p>\n

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I think Wendy’s new name should be WonderSheller Wendy since her husband posted a photo on the iLoveShelling Facebook page of her other finds in the last few days at Blind Pass Sanibel. A SCOTCH BONNET, GOLDEN OLIVE, KINGS CROWNS, GAUDY NATICA and so much more! Every time I see her on the beach, she has something pretty extraordinary in her shell bag. Shellzam!<\/p>\n

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

Rachel (holding a SHARKS EYE), Amy (with her fave COCKLE) and Sarah (with a sweet JUVIE CONCH) from Minnesota we happy as clams finding their favorite treasures from the sea.<\/p>\n

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

Roya from Maryland showed me her favorite shell\u2026 a WORMIE! Nice one.<\/p>\n

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

It was an extra fun day for me since Super Sheller Clark<\/strong><\/a> got to take it easy and shell to his heart’s content…<\/p>\n

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

He always gives most of his shells away to whomever is nearby but these were his faves to bring home\u2026 an ALPHIE, LACE MUREX (with brown coloration) and a beauty of an OLIVE.<\/p>\n

\"clark's<\/a><\/p>\n

I can never pass up collecting sunbeam SCALLOPS…<\/p>\n

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Some days I get on an obsession with one type of shell, and yesterday was the KITTENS PAW. They are one of the most common shells on Sanibel but there are days when they speak to me\u2026. “Meow!” (I guess Ive been a little obsessed with kitties this last week too. heehee)<\/p>\n

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

I mentioned last week that there was construction equipment parked at the Blind Pass Captiva (Turner Beach) parking lot so it was closed. The Captiva side parking lot was still closed as of yesterday (Christmas day) but the beach is open. The Sanibel side of Blind Pass parking lot is OPEN and there are no problems shelling that beach… and I think they are wrapping it up and moving it out any day now (fingers crossed!). If you need more info go to\u00a0http:\/\/mycepd.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sending seashells and palm trees from paradise\u2026<\/p>\n

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Join me on the next shelling adventure cruise to Cayo Costa January 3 or 8, 2014! For more info CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Just as Clark and I stepped on the beach yesterday, we saw a string of shells on the shoreline of Blind Pass Sanibel and the happy site of lots of Sanibel Stoopers. As we got closer to the sand bar, we saw a mound of shells \u2026 YIPPEE! A \u00a0shell pile!\u00a0Frances from Texas and her […]<\/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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,5,3,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-blind-pass","category-captiva","category-cone","category-junonia","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-4D7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","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=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}