{"id":20731,"date":"2014-09-22T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=20731"},"modified":"2014-09-22T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:58:35","slug":"breathing-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/22\/breathing-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many treasures to be found each and every time you take a walk on the beach. I feel that way about any<\/em> beach… even\u00a0when they don’t\u00a0have gobs of shells like we do in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n

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

I couldn’t help but find beautiful treasures among the many shells that lined the shore last night at Gulfside City Park but my mission last night was to enjoy the scenery and breath in the salty air to help me\u00a0collect my thoughts. \u00a0Every beach in the world tends to have that effect on me.<\/p>\n

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After taking in the sights and feeling that curtain of calmness take over, I’m always surprised that the simplest of things can make me giddy. It gave me\u00a0so much pleasure to see this sweet COCKLE SHELL with a\u00a0heart\u00a0etched in its side<\/strong><\/a>… or is it a butterfly?<\/p>\n

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

I headed for the high dry wrack line, and saw\u00a0a few mini shells like this…<\/p>\n

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If I had spent more time sifting through this one area, I could have raked in oodles of TUSK SHELLS and who know what other minis. That itty bitty KEYHOLE LIMPET, teenie weenei WENTLETRAP, sweet TULIP and awesome little GULF OYSTER DRILL were enough for me for the moment.<\/p>\n

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

I didn’t want to miss the changing sky!<\/p>\n

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

Plus, I knew Clark was collecting some of our faves.<\/p>\n

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

It was such a beautiful evening.<\/p>\n

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

Honestly, I’m so excited for our iLoveShelling Adventure to Big Hickory Island with Sight Sea-R Cruises on Wednesday! That’s the day I know will be a blast and shelltastic shelling day to scour the island for treasures. If you are in the area, you should join us for an awesome day on this new shelling adventure- CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to see some of the fun we’ve had so far! CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to reserve your spot<\/p>\n

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Dont forget! With each scheduled cruise through February, each passenger on an iLoveShelling cruise will receive at $25 Gift Certificate to Sealife By Congress jewelry store on Sanibel. Yay!<\/p>\n

\"SLBC<\/p>\n

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And…. We had a cool surprise visitor too! A SHARK took a stroll along the shoreline while we watched in silence. No worries, he didn’t want anything to do with us and moved around anybody in the water… not that I wanted to get in his way though- LOL <\/p>\n

PS- I took all of these photos and the video on my new iPhone 6. I’m loving it so far!<\/p>\n

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