{"id":20373,"date":"2014-08-04T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:07:22","slug":"sanibel-shelling-report-before-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/sanibel-shelling-report-before-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel Shelling Report Before the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As I’m listening to the loud crashes of thunder with pounding rain and watching the bright strikes of lightning\u00a0on\u00a0the island today, I’m thankful I got to take a few leisurely strolls on our sun filled beach this weekend before this downpour.<\/p>\n

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

The water was\u00a0like glass at Gulfside City Park on Saturday and clear enough to find these treasure while walking in the water.<\/p>\n

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

After finding a SUNRAY VENUS and a FIGHTING CONCH as well, I started finding “Candy!” (juvie HORSE CONCHS) in the shell lines on the beach…<\/p>\n

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

Seriously, there were so many different shell and wrack lines to work, I could have stayed there all day long searching each line to see what different types of goodies were hiding in each one.<\/p>\n

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

But since it was a little warm (around 92 degrees around noon), I stayed either in the water or just along the edge…. where I found\u00a0oodles of beautifully colored CALICO SCALLOPS (and the candies).<\/p>\n

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

Last evening Clark and I took a walk around the Lighthouse Beach to find the glassy calm water with a small shell line on the Gulf side…<\/p>\n

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

We rounded the tip of the island to find choppier water with lines of SEA WEED covering the shells. It’s funny… there are some photographs that I have taken over the years that stick with me for some reason and they make me smile.\u00a0\u00a0So when I saw this gal sifting for minis, I recognized her right away from my post Smiles For Seashells<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>“I took a photo of you a few years ago and its one of my favorites!”. As soon as we started talking I remembered everything else about her too. Sweet Robin! She found a few WENTLETRAPS, BABYS EARS, and lots of other usual suspects just hanging out Sittin ‘N Siftin.<\/p>\n

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

Further down the beach I found this turquoise blue green SEA HARE (SEA SLUG) that had just washed up on the beach. I think it’s a different type of RAGGED SEA HARE than the ones I’ve found before (CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>)… since I’ve never seen this color in an adult before. Cool! I put it back in the water but I’m not sure this one survived :(.<\/p>\n

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

The good news is… it may have just laid this blue green spaghetti looking EGG MASS. But, don’t quote me on that… I’m only assuming this after finding an unusual blue green SEA SLUG then only a few feet away spotting\u00a0an unusual blue green EGG STRING. Hmmmm… \u00a0that turquoise EGG MASS from that turquoise SEA HARE? It doesn’t seem that far of a stretch, right? LOL<\/p>\n

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

Anyhoo, it was a lovely weekend to explore Southwest Florida beaches to see what treasures the Gulf Of Mexico had in store for us. And… after this storm lets up (with winds out of the west), we may have an even better week to find beach treasures. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n

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

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