{"id":18689,"date":"2014-03-20T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:57:40","slug":"seashells-rock-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/seashells-rock-southwest-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Seashells Rock Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shells! Shells! Shells! \u00a0I teased you yesterday with a quick update post<\/strong><\/a> of Beth’s beautiful seashells she found at Lighthouse Beach after west winds whipped through Southwest Florida a few days earlier in the week, but it really was just the start of an incredishell couple of shelling days.<\/p>\n

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A few of you spotted the TRUE TULIP Beth (Ohio) found, which I believe is the prettiest TRUE TULIP I’ve ever seen. It’s “truly” spectacsheller!<\/p>\n

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

Well… on second thought it may be the second prettiest one to the one I found while videoing after a storm on the post\u00a0Fishing For True Tulips At Sanibel Pier<\/strong><\/a>. heehee<\/p>\n

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I saw Connie Miller<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and John again and they were having a BABYS EAR hay day.<\/p>\n

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

She was filling her coffee cup with other treasures too but I was amazed with how many BABYS EARS.<\/p>\n

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

Jana, Andrea and Ruth Ann from Tennessee not just found beautiful LIGHTNING WHELKS….<\/p>\n

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

They found The Sanibel Six<\/strong><\/a> ….and to my surprise, Andrea found a SCOTCH BONNET! The Lighthouse Beach isn’t really known as SCOTCH BONNET territory.<\/p>\n

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Later in the day, Ruth Ann posted a photo on the iLoveShelling Facebook page<\/strong> <\/a>that Andrea found a CABRITS MUREX the same day on Captiva. Shellzam!<\/p>\n

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

I must have just missed them because I was on Captiva watching this major shell pile form at Blind Pass later in the afternoon….<\/p>\n

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This is where I met Cathy (Ft Myers) after she found two SCOTCH BONNETS while the shells were rolling in. Holy Cowrie!<\/p>\n

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

But wait! after I took that photo of her holding her 2 SCOTCH BONNETS…. I heard her squeal with excitement! She found #3!!! BoomShellalaka!<\/p>\n

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It was a very happy birthday for Suzy (Fort Myers) because she found her own SCOTCH BONNET too. Here she is shellebrating with her husband Frank. Shelltastic!<\/p>\n

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

In a few hours, I watched lots of the shells roll back into the Gulf Of Mexico but there were so many still at the waters edge and in the pile.<\/p>\n

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I saw my friend Faye from North Carolina (she lived on Sanibel for years and years) find a huge handful of shells.<\/p>\n

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

Nice, huh?<\/p>\n

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Faye actually had a little help from Super Sheller Clark<\/strong><\/a> as he scooped the water with his shelling backhoe and brought us shells to sort through. Clark is on the far right getting those shells for us! I haven’t even gone through our shells yet to get a photo but I do know that in all of these years shelling Clark had never found a CARRIER SHELL… until now. He found four! hahah It’s one shell that he said he just didn’t have an eye for…. I repeat…. until now. Yay Clark! \u00a0I’ll get pictures and show you later. ;)<\/p>\n

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Right as I was leaving, Len from Illinois showed me a couple of shells he found.<\/p>\n

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He found a FULGURATOR OLIVE! Exshellent find along with the very nice NUTMEG.<\/p>\n

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

It has been so much fun to see the beaches change within hours and to witness Blind Pass fill up with shells again. I feel like its been three months since we’ve seen it get shell crazy by the jetty rocks. It felt sooooo gooood.<\/p>\n

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

I have to show you Erin’s JUNONIA again since it was so sweet.<\/p>\n

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

I haven’t even caught you up on all the great shelling holes I found this week! Yes, Lighthouse Beach and Blind Pass Captiva have been fabshellous… but the shelling\u00a0on Fort Myers Beach has been outragshellous too!<\/p>\n

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Next post I will show you how amazing the shelling on the south end of Fort Myers Beach. Here is the first pile of shells I stooped over to find my first treasures yesterday on this beach. Just click on the photo to enjoy the CYBERSHELLING! I hope this incredishelling continues through the weekend!<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 3-20-14 around 6:00pm- I stopped at Blind Pass Captiva to see how the beach had changed. It was wiped clean of shells! Ack! There was still a small and very picked over pile of shells but most was just sand. All of the shells were taken back in the water. Darn it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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