{"id":18875,"date":"2014-04-03T23:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=18875"},"modified":"2018-10-21T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:57:31","slug":"beautiful-day-on-the-neighborhood-shelling-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/beautiful-day-on-the-neighborhood-shelling-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Day On The Neighborhood Shelling Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Any day I’m on a boat, I’m happy. I’m even happier when that boat pulls up to a tropical island with strings of seashells lining a beach surrounded by aqua water.<\/p>\n

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

That’s why it was a very happy day on the iLoveShelling cruise to Cayo Costa<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>yesterday. \u00a0Before we boarded our Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a> boat, I met Nan and John from Wisconson since I was immediately drawn to John’s home made shelling scoop. I love to see what different folks invent to make shelling a little easier (or more competitive! :)) so I praised his handiwork on the plastic slotted spoon on the end of a long wooden handle. Clever!<\/p>\n

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

I should have know they would be awesome shellers. John made the find of the day (IMHO)- he found a MACULATED BABY’S EAR! He and Nan also found a PURPLISH TAGELUS, FALSE ANGEL WINGS, TRUE ANGEL WINGS, a KEYHOLE LIMPET, MORTON’S EGG COCKLE, and OPERCULUM (his first) and a juvie SOUTHERN QUAHOG.<\/p>\n

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

It was fun to meet locals Amy and Jeff from Fort Myers and seeing how many different shells she was collecting. Oh and… notice her \u00a0Seashell Identification guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>attached to one of her shell bags? Love it!<\/p>\n

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

Amy pulled out a few of her favorite finds and of course my eyes went straight to the humongo BABYS EAR. Then I saw how sweet the mix was…. a BUBBLE, WHELK, COMB BITTERSWEET, MELAMPUS on the top row, then 2 PURPLISH TAGELUS, a COQUINA, another PURPLISH TAGELUS and then after the BABY EAR, a FALSE ANGEL WING.<\/p>\n

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

I saw lots of shellers finding PURPLISH TAGELUS shells.<\/p>\n

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

Jane from Boston found a few treasures right where our boat anchored.<\/p>\n

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

Two BABY’S EARS!<\/p>\n

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

Marsha and Robert (Georgia) found most of their treasures on the Gulf side of the island.<\/p>\n

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

Looks like they found the OLIVE garden!<\/p>\n

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

Marsha and Robert were sitting beside Rachel and Sherry on the boat and realized they lived only 30 minutes from each other in Georgia. Those Georgians can find some shells!<\/p>\n

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

These were just a few of Rachel and Sherry’s finds. Out of the four SHARK’S EYES, we noticed that one of the SHARK’S EYES had blue in the center of the eye…. A PAUL NEWMANS EYE!<\/p>\n

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

It’s always fun to see families like Henry, Charles, Eric and Courtney’s family from Illinois learning about shells…<\/p>\n

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

And seeing friends like Gary, Roxanne Marge and Gordon (all from Chicago) sharing the adventures of a new beach together.<\/p>\n

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

I met Linda earlier this year on another iLoveShelling cruise but she was calling herself The Queen Of Parts since she only found a slightly broken BABYS EARS and broken ANGEL WINGS.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0But then she found a few WORMIES, a gorgeous double ALTERNATE TELLIN, a BROAD PAPER COCKLE, FALSE ANGEL WINGS and an EGG COCKLE. Queen of Parts and Treasures!<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0It was so much fun to find shells and share the sun filled day with\u00a0beautiful\u00a0<\/span>happy people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

My Shell Tree wish came true. Happy.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And a MANATEE too!<\/p>\n

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

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