{"id":19766,"date":"2014-06-16T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=19766"},"modified":"2014-06-16T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:33:46","slug":"full-moon-rises-shelling-tide-lowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/16\/full-moon-rises-shelling-tide-lowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon Rises, Shelling Tide Lowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

During the low tide evenings this past week, we didn’t find gobs of shells on Sanibel or Captiva but\u00a0we found\u00a0the best empty beauties in the Blind Pass channel in between Sanibel and Captiva. With the full moon causing extreme tides, the water rushes through the pass so quickly\u00a0at the lowest tide\u00a0(ankle deep)\u00a0I like to\u00a0just wait for the shells to roll by my feet by near the jetty rocks. If you want to see a video from last year that shows how they roll by CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

We also hit the low tide at the Lighthouse Beach…<\/p>\n

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

This was my favorite night last week because I met Michayla from Pensacola with lots of beautiful shells in her shell bag…<\/p>\n

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

I also met Paige and her mom Nikkie from Kentucky. It’s always so much fun to meet new friends that love shelling as much as I do!<\/p>\n

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

And lookie who else was shelling at Lighthouse Beach… our good friends Susan and Lee from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba<\/strong><\/a>. They definitely love shelling as much as Clark and I do.<\/p>\n

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

It’s always so much fun to see the live creatures at ow tide like FIGHTING CONCHS…<\/p>\n

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

I’m not absolutely positive, but I believe that this is a SEA HARE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0EGG STRING. Seriously, it was this color… almost turquoise!<\/p>\n

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

We are very used to seeing SEA PORK<\/strong><\/a> at low tide but this SEA LIVER<\/strong><\/a> looks a little different because it’s flatter and a little slimier. They are dark purple when still alive then turn whitish when they die so I’m assuming part of this colony on the right has already died off and the left side is still hanging on. Of course after I took this photo, I returned this colonial tunicate<\/strong><\/a> to the tidal pool where I found it.<\/p>\n

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

So while we were shelling Lighthouse and Blind Pass…\u00a0Gary, Jane, Anna, Claire and Ella from Arkansas were shelling near Tarpon Beach when they hit \u00a0a VERY sweet honey hole. Gary said ”\u00a0Just at the shelf line we found a PEN SHELL\u00a0bed. After about 2 hours of digging we had 8 large horse conchs – our best shell hunt ever!”\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0I’m sure this will be a day in their lives they will never ever forget. Shellzam!<\/p>\n

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

I love summer evenings walking the beach when the sun doesn’t set until way after 8pm then the full moon rises to brighten the sky and\u00a0pull at the sea.<\/p>\n

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

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During the low tide evenings this past week, we didn’t find gobs of shells on Sanibel or Captiva but\u00a0we found\u00a0the best empty beauties in the Blind Pass channel in between Sanibel and Captiva. With the full moon causing extreme tides, the water rushes through the pass so quickly\u00a0at the lowest tide\u00a0(ankle deep)\u00a0I like to\u00a0just wait […]<\/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":[5,1699,46,254,1891,1890],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blind-pass","category-blind-pass-sanibel","category-fighting-conch","category-low-tide","category-sea-hare-egg-string","category-sea-liver","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-58O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766","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=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19782,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}