{"id":18032,"date":"2014-01-13T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=18032"},"modified":"2014-01-13T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:38:13","slug":"cruise-to-rainbows-and-seashells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/cruise-to-rainbows-and-seashells\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise To Rainbows and Seashells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A magical rainbow appeared on the beach at Cayo Costa after we stepped off our Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a> boat. I thought that was an amazing welcome but there was more\u2026. Mother Nature rolled out a beautiful carpet of sea shells for us too!<\/p>\n

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

There were so many shells to look through, I walked right past this absolutely perfect SCOTCH BONNET!<\/p>\n

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

I heard a gasp about 10 yards behind me\u2026 Kirk from Oregon plucked this beautiful treasure out of the wrack line I had just combed through. Wow!<\/p>\n

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

There were so many shells to scan over, it was almost overwhelming (oh, but such a good overwhelming!)…<\/p>\n

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

So let me show you this awesome group of shellers on the boat. It may have been cold, but shellers don’t care- We always make the best of it!<\/p>\n

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

On the Captiva Cruises boat ride over to Cayo Costa, I passed around a big bucket so everybody could pick out a “good luck” shell (a choice of FIGHTING CONCH, LIGHTNING WHELK, COCKLE or MUREX all of which Clark and I have found in the last month or so). I talked to Stone, Ian, Kirk and Deb who all picked out one shell then Ian told me he was really wanting to find a SHARKS EYE. Hmmmmm\u2026 well its hard to find one particular shell when you are beach combing, I always say you should enjoy whatever is put in front of you by Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

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

Maybe that “good luck” shell worked! Ian found a gorgeous SHARKS EYE!<\/p>\n

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

And not only that, he found an ALBINO LIGHTNING WHELK.<\/p>\n

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

Nico from New York City found a perfect nice sized PAPER FIG…<\/p>\n

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

Debbie and Frances came down from Sarasota for the day to join us on the cruise. Nice to meet y’all and nice finds!<\/p>\n

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

We always seem to find ANGEL WINGS at Cayo Costa and it’s always fun to see the three different types that wash up. From left to right\u2026 a TRUE ANGEL WING, FALLEN ANGEL WING and a FALSE ANGEL WING<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Ron<\/strong><\/a> found this very cool LIGHTNING WHELK. After we took photos, he put it back in the water because there were so many living creatures in and around this shell.<\/p>\n

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

This is a closeup of the opening. There’s just a a smidge of the HERMIT CRAB’S claw showing but he was alive and well inside there. But look at the rest of it! There are live SLIPPERS, BARNACLES, TUNICATES and even a GULF OYSTER DRILL living on this shell. It’s a little village!<\/p>\n

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

Cheryl got lucky she found a completely dried STARFISH in the high wrack line. That was on her shell bucket list!<\/p>\n

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

Jerry<\/strong><\/a> was not messing around with some little silly net. He brought out a gigantor net! LOL He scooped up three empty double SUNRAY VENUS CLAMS…<\/p>\n

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

They are sooooo beautiful…<\/p>\n

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

Jessica (with the Island Inn Resort<\/strong><\/a>) brought her big camera since she wanted to find some nice photographs. She ended up putting away her camera so she could pick up more shells. Ha!<\/p>\n

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

On our way back, I saw\u00a0GoodWillShelling<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>giving SAND DOLLARS to a family visiting from the Netherlands since he and SarahTheShellAnimal<\/strong><\/a> found so many in the area they were shelling. So nice!<\/p>\n

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

Our weather in the last week has gone from low 50s (on this boat trip) to low 80s this weekend and we expect another slight cold snap again this week. This cold weather is providing great shelling! This morning I went to Gulfside City Park where I found a few WHELKS \u00a0and CONCHS then went to Blind Pass Sanibel where yet another huge shell pile has formed. This week should be exshellent shelling again!<\/p>\n

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A magical rainbow appeared on the beach at Cayo Costa after we stepped off our Captiva Cruises boat. I thought that was an amazing welcome but there was more\u2026. Mother Nature rolled out a beautiful carpet of sea shells for us too! There were so many shells to look through, I walked right past this […]<\/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":[116,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-captiva-cruises","category-cayo-costa-beachcombing","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-4GQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032","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=18032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18032\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}