{"id":18809,"date":"2014-03-31T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=18809"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:19:18","slug":"two-scoops-of-shellicious-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/two-scoops-of-shellicious-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Scoops Of Shellicious Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Dont you remember that old saying… “If you don’t like the weather, just wait 10 minutes”? Well, it’s the same with shelling in Southwest Florida. We’ve had swirling high winds with rain the past few days so it has changed the shelling on every beach every 10 minutes. Just as the rain stopped at one point, I hurried to Sanibel Lighthouse Beach to see if the weather brought in good shelling conditions yet. I met more die-hard shellers!\u00a0A little drizzly weather wasn’t going to keep Ann, Doug and Patricia from Minnesota from shelling…<\/p>\n

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

Patricia found her first NUTMEG! And… notice that Patricia made her own necklace out of one of the shells (LADY-IN-WAITING VENUS) she found that already had a hole in it. So cute!<\/p>\n

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

Then yesterday morning I met the cutest family from Indiana at Lighthouse Beach… Sean, Lori, Ellie, Wanda and Karl. Karl is a birder who\u00a0volunteers at Ding Darling<\/span>\u00a0a few months in the winter and answered a few questions I had about some of the birds Ive seen lately. We realized how similar shellers are to birders then told him about Gill and Andy’s “The Big Year”<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

If they were competing in The Big Year with shells, I think Sean would probably be the big winner in the family. As soon as he showed us all the great shells he was finding, he was back to his ankles in the water to find more. Love it!<\/p>\n

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

Andrea from Ft Lauderdale said her day was complete since she found a perfect LACE MUREX with a pink nose.<\/p>\n

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

Beauty!<\/p>\n

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

Clark took one scoop with his shelling backhoe at the waters edge and brought a pile of shells to me. I snapped a photo so you could shell with me. CYBERSHELL away!<\/p>\n

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

While I picked out some nice shells, he brought another scoop to me. Wow! Stephanie, this CYERSHELLING is for you (I got the book- Thank you!)…<\/p>\n

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

Did you find these shells and more? Crazy, right? Two scoops of shellicious treasures!<\/p>\n

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

There were lots of empty wonderful shells just at the surf’s edge on the gulf side at the lighthouse then walking west we found oodles of live creatures in the morning at low tide.<\/p>\n

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

So… \u00a0let’s get back to the “just wait 10 minutes until the weather changes for good shelling” bit. Lots of people ask me how I know which beach to be at for the good shelling all the time. Here’s a secret…. normally, I visit LOTS of beaches to find the best shelling. Yes, I can regularly find good shells or something really interesting EVERY time I walk on a beach here but I do stop by different beaches (Blind Pass, Gulfside City Park, Lighthouse) to assess the conditions on a regular basis and I don’t post on each one. That’s what is fun to me…. seeing the beaches change so much. I want to find the most interesting treasures to learn something and share it with you. So before I found so many shells at the Lighthouse Beach after the rain storm, I visited Blind Pass Captiva where I met Karen, Randy and Stephanie from Orlando…<\/p>\n

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

Stephanie found a CARRIER SHELL and other goodies on the sand bar on the pass side.<\/p>\n

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

It was so much fun to talk to Renee and Charles from Chicago after seeing how excited they were about their finds.<\/p>\n

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

Charles found a WENTLETRAP there! After i took this photo, Renee told me she found a SCOTCH BONNET too. Huh? She told me it had a crack in to though so she didn’t put it in her “faves” pile. LOL I forgot to take a photo of it after she dug it out of her bag to show it to me and … yep! It was a beautiful SCOTCH BONNET with a small crack.<\/p>\n

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

I’ve seen lots of cool BEACH BLING all week but this was my favorite… a CRUCIFIX SHELL. Hmmm… with Easter just around the corner.<\/p>\n

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

If you are trapped in that unseasonably cold, snowy weather up north, I’m hoping the two scoops from Super Sheller Clark<\/strong><\/a> will help warm you up. We are wishing you sunshine and seashells!<\/p>\n

\"clark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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