{"id":18453,"date":"2014-02-23T22:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=18453"},"modified":"2014-02-23T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:53:13","slug":"warm-sandy-beach-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/23\/warm-sandy-beach-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Sandy Beach Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the weather on Sanibel and Captiva is in the high 70s and low 80s during the winter months like now, it’s hard not to be outside every minute of the day… so the world slips away. This weekend, Clark and I took a few walks on the beach at Gulfside City Park to find beautiful shells like the ones in my hand.\u00a0Clark was scooping just at the waters edge with his big metal shelling backhoe to pull up the LACE MUREX (Lacie!) and that very cool HORSE CONCH. We both found more MUREXES, CONCHS and WHELKS but gave them to some nice folks on the beach.<\/span>\u00a0And then the fog started rolling in…then out…. then in again. It was wild!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I found some beauties on the north end of Captiva at South Seas Island Resort<\/strong><\/a> last week too.<\/p>\n

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Although you can only get to this beach if you are staying at South Seas Resort (or its a very long walk from Alison Hagerup Parking lot<\/strong><\/a> in Captiva)… if you are there, look for a nice shelly area near Sunset Beach<\/strong><\/a>…<\/p>\n

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It’s always a treat to find a SAND DOLLAR wash up at your feet.<\/p>\n

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I found a sweet baby SUNRAY VENUS right near the SAND DOLLAR.<\/p>\n

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And right next to the SUNRAY VENUS was this pretty little SPECKLED TELLIN. Weehoo!<\/p>\n

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After so much sand was pumped onto the beaches of Captiva a couple of months ago, some of it is already being claimed back by King Neptune. You can see two different erosion lines…<\/p>\n

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I could see shells stuck in the side of the erosion ledge so I started pulling a few out. Can you see that AUGER packed into the side?<\/p>\n

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I also pulled this bad boy out of the “cliff”. A FLAT SCALLOP. Voila!<\/p>\n

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Sending you warm sandy beach wishes of blue skies and cybershells…<\/p>\n

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When the weather on Sanibel and Captiva is in the high 70s and low 80s during the winter months like now, it’s hard not to be outside every minute of the day… so the world slips away. This weekend, Clark and I took a few walks on the beach at Gulfside City Park to find […]<\/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":[41,40,18,47,2045,927,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flat-zigzag-scallop","category-lace-murex","category-murex","category-sand-dollar","category-scallop","category-speckled-tellin","category-sunray-venus","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-4ND","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453","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=18453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18469,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453\/revisions\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}