{"id":20130,"date":"2014-07-16T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=20130"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:14:46","slug":"small-island-big-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/small-island-big-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Island, Big Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Shellzam! Brenda from Indiana found an empty, big, beautiful LIGHTNING WHELK on our iLoveShelling Sight Sea-R cruise<\/strong> <\/a>to Big Hickory Island today. Wow!<\/p>\n

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

Cuties Rachel and Danielle helped her shellebrate while\u00a0feeling happy with their finds too on this fabshellous adventure. So fun!<\/p>\n

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

It was a fun and gorgeous morning pulling up to this small island sand bar at low tide.<\/p>\n

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

Emily and Lily from Kentucky found SAND DOLLARS, shells and some cool bling…<\/p>\n

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

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

Jessica (NY) found a nice size ALPHABET CONE, SHARKS EYES, ROSE PETAL TELLINS and lots of WORMS SHELLS and her mom Kathy found a very cool ROSEATE SPOONBILL\u00a0feather in the wrack line.<\/p>\n

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

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

Dima and Amy (MI) found some beauties!<\/p>\n

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

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

Kelsea and Lori from South Carolina showed me their fave finds which included that cool BRYOZOAN COLONY, LACE MUREX, an awesome dark twisty WORM SHELL, GAUDY NATICA, WHITE CRESTED TELLIN and ROSE PETAL TELLINS.<\/p>\n

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

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

Kim and Jon from St Louis showed me their faves too… a sweet baby ALPHABET CONE, a gorgeous FLAT SCALLOP, SUNRAY VENUS, ROSE PETAL TELLINS \u00a0and wormies.<\/p>\n

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

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

Leah, Julianna, June (MD) and Gramma Diane (NJ)\u00a0found most of their shells in a little honey hole in the water. Way to go girls!<\/p>\n

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

On the way to the island, we saw ROSEATE SPOONBILLS, STINGRAYS and DOLPHINS as I chose a winner for the Sealife By Congress<\/strong> <\/a>sterling silver sand dollar pendant giveaway. Congratshellations Mackenzie! It was such a pleasure to meet you and your mom Tammi and your sister Peyton.<\/p>\n

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

Everybody else on the cruise was happy too. They received a $25 certificate towards a jewelry piece of their own. Yay! Thank you Sealife By Congress<\/a>–\u00a0<\/strong>thats so nice!<\/p>\n

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

I think everybody on the cruise found ROSE PETAL TELLINS and CORAL.<\/p>\n

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

And everybody found WORMIES!<\/p>\n

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

First Mate Meg even shelled for 5 minutes and found a BEACH BLING “Sea Hero” that guarded some of her other finds. cute!<\/p>\n

\"Meg's<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh and Ingrid (from my last post<\/strong><\/a>) joined us as well and showed us her JUNONIA she found in front of the Island Inn on Sanibel<\/strong> <\/a>yesterday. Boom Shellalaka!<\/p>\n

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

We were so lucky to have a beautiful warm sunny day to spend 4 hours hanging out and shelling together.<\/p>\n

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

I am so happy to announce that starting in August, Sight Sea-R Cruises has changed the hours for their regular shelling cruises EVERY\u00a0Wednesday to go from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm (instead of leaving at 10am). Spectacsheller! So our iLoveShelling Sight Sea- R shelling cruises\u00a0will be the same.<\/p>\n

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

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Shellzam! Brenda from Indiana found an empty, big, beautiful LIGHTNING WHELK on our iLoveShelling Sight Sea-R cruise to Big Hickory Island today. Wow! Cuties Rachel and Danielle helped her shellebrate while\u00a0feeling happy with their finds too on this fabshellous adventure. So fun! It was a fun and gorgeous morning pulling up to this small island […]<\/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":[1897,1950,38,271,47,1733,2007,2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-hickory-island","category-congress-jewelers","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-rose-tellin","category-sand-dollar","category-shellingadventures","category-whelk","category-worm-shell","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-5eG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130","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=20130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27817,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20130\/revisions\/27817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}