{"id":1988,"date":"2010-06-14T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:09:41","slug":"stranded-on-sanibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/stranded-on-sanibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded on Sanibel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1989\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1989\" data-attachment-id=\"1989\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/stranded-on-sanibel\/stranded-boat-on-sanibel-island\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2760,2170\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276467469&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stranded boat on Sanibel Island\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Two Relaxing on Sanibel&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island-1024x805.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1989\" title=\"Stranded boat on Sanibel Island\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stranded-boat-on-Sanibel-Island-1024x805.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Relaxing on Sanibel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just sit right back and you&#8217;ll hear at tale, a tale of a fateful trip&#8230;&#8230; Oh, wait a minute! This is not \u00a0Gilligan&#8217;s Island, it&#8217;s Sanibel Island! These guys were out on a three hour tour&#8230;..no, no, really&#8230;.they were out for the weekend from Cape Coral and decided to hang out on Sanibel yesterday but forgot to watch the tide. \u00a0I talked to them around 6:30 p.m. yesterday and they said \u00a0they had plenty of food and drinks. That was a good thing because these guys were probably stranded at the lighthouse beach until early this morning when the tide came in.<\/p>\n<p>I met a family that wouldn&#8217;t have minded being stranded on Sanibel Island&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1990\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1990\" data-attachment-id=\"1990\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/stranded-on-sanibel\/generations-of-shellers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1276473034&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Generations of shellers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tyler, Sonya, Gracie and Gloria (Birmingham, AL)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1990\" title=\"Generations of shellers\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Generations-of-shellers-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler, Sonya, Gracie and Gloria (Birmingham, AL)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a family of shellers. Gloria started shelling when she was 4 then taught her daughter Sonya to shell at a very young age . She then\u00a0taught her grandchildren, Tyler and Gracie, the joys of shelling. They were finding precious WENTLETRAPS, CONCHS and lots of other treasures to embellish a mirror they have started. Sonya told me that her house was filled with shells&#8230;..Yep, mine too Sonya. Decorating with the gifts of the sea makes a house feel like a home to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just sit right back and you&#8217;ll hear at tale, a tale of a fateful trip&#8230;&#8230; Oh, wait a minute! This is not \u00a0Gilligan&#8217;s Island, it&#8217;s Sanibel Island! These guys were out on a three hour tour&#8230;..no, no, really&#8230;.they were out for the weekend from Cape Coral and decided to hang out on Sanibel yesterday but [&hellip;]<\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2008,2007],"tags":[303,177,2082,71,80,304,9],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wentletrap","category-whelk","tag-sanibel-boating","tag-sanibel-island-lighthouse","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-wentletraps","tag-whelk","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-w4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}