{"id":20388,"date":"2014-08-06T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:31:54","slug":"tuning-up-the-shelling-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/tuning-up-the-shelling-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Up The Shelling Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Gulfside City Park had some new beach treasures washing after a few days of heavy rain and wind across the Gulf Of Mexico. There were lots of DOSINIAS (DISK and ELEGANT) and other CLAMS lined up along the waters edge at low tide yesterday.<\/p>\n

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

While walking along the water’s edge with my good friend Mary (who has an exshellent shelling eye), I noticed the water had gotten churned up again with the wind so it was a little difficult to see the bottom even in the shallow water but that’s where all the shells were washing up. In another second, I watched Mary scoop up\u00a0that marvshellous PAPER FIG (in the first photo) right before my eyes… and I didn’t even see a thing. Wow! Marvshellous Mary! I need to tune up my shelling eye- haha.<\/p>\n

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

I was happy to know my shelling eye wasn’t completely out of focus, I spotted this sweet SAND DOLLAR wash right up at my feet…<\/p>\n

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

Beautiful sisters\u00a0Bronwyn and Brenna from California have been visiting Sanibel for 20 years and were thrilled to be here this week with complete shelling eye focus.<\/p>\n

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

They were finding hundreds of double COQUINAS to make shell flowers. They try to join the shell crafters at Sanibel Community House<\/strong><\/a> each time they are here on Sanibel so they can learn more crafting secrets. Fun!<\/p>\n

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

I didn’t see many new shells washing up at\u00a0Blind Pass Captiva yesterday…<\/p>\n

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

I saw some interesting BLING tangled in some of the fresh weed lines at Blind Pass Sanibel and also some nice shells in the surf… so finding some goodies might be pretty productive on that beach today or tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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

As the Middle Gulf beaches on Sanibel looked to be the best for this week, a little birdie told me that Lover’s Key has been pretty productive too. ;)<\/p>\n

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

Lots of folks have been already been asking for my recommendations for places to stay this winter… Here you go!<\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

I’m still working on new dates for our iLoveShelling cruises but in the mean time, I already have some scheduled here… Join Us!<\/p>\n

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

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Gulfside City Park had some new beach treasures washing after a few days of heavy rain and wind across the Gulf Of Mexico. There were lots of DOSINIAS (DISK and ELEGANT) and other CLAMS lined up along the waters edge at low tide yesterday. While walking along the water’s edge with my good friend Mary […]<\/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":[45,1860,1041,1859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coquina","category-disk-dosinia-dosinia","category-dosinia","category-elegant-dosinia","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-5iQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","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=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20400,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}