{"id":2083,"date":"2010-06-23T23:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2011-08-31T03:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T07:57:17","slug":"low-tide-sand-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Tide Sand Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2082\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2082\" data-attachment-id=\"2082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/lowtide-sand-bars\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2838,1973\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277330558&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=\"Lowtide sand bars\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Lowtide sand bars&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars-1024x711.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2082 \" title=\"Lowtide sand bars\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Lowtide-sand-bars-1024x711.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowtide sand bars<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have hot news! But let me tell you about the shelling news first because I really enjoyed the people I met today and I think you will too&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always exciting at low tide on the sand bars at the beach. I wasn&#8217;t really finding any keeper shells (or those live <a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/follow-the-yellow-shell-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\">BABY EAR tracks<\/a>) but it really didn&#8217;t matter after I saw these young cousins having so much fun filling their bucket with pieces of FIGHTING CONCHS, OLIVES, TULIPS and \u00a0lots of \u00a0little\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shellmuseum.org\/shells\/shelldetails.cfm?id=147\" target=\"_blank\">BUBBLE SHELLS<\/a>. Do they get any cuter than this?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2084\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2084\" data-attachment-id=\"2084\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/shelling-cousins\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3483,2612\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277331342&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=\"Shelling cousins\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jillian, Emma, Rebekah and Ava&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2084 \" title=\"Shelling cousins\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Shelling-cousins-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jillian, Emma, Rebekah and Ava<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then Clark called me over after hanging out on the sand bar with Donn talking about Texas A&amp;M football while Charlotte was sittin&#8217; and diggin&#8217; up beautiful shells. She was just sifting through the sand finding a few really nice WHELKS while the tide was coming in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2085\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2085\" data-attachment-id=\"2085\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/digging-for-shells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277332113&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Digging for shells\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Charlotte and Donn (Texas)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2085 \" title=\"Digging for shells\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Digging-for-shells-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte and Donn (Texas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then Dan came over to get help digging up a whelk and said &#8220;I found a huge whelk about 15 inches long. Can you help dig it up with that shell rake?&#8221; Off we went, splashing over to the next adventure. Clark helped him dig around the &#8220;shell&#8221; and finally pulled up the treasure. LOL Doesn&#8217;t look like a whelk to me. How about you? ;)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2086\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2086\" data-attachment-id=\"2086\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3587,2690\" 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;1277332385&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;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Not a huge whelk as thought\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Addy and Dan (Kansas City)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2086 \" title=\"Not a huge whelk as thought\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Not-a-huge-whelk-as-thought-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addy and Dan (Kansas City) with driftwood treasure<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ok, I&#8217;ve waited long enough to tell you. The Florida Weekly came out today with the iLoveShelling article!!!!! I&#8217;m really tickled with it&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; but I&#8217;m a little embarrassed about the title. There are so many shellers on the islands and so many who at least have found a junonia.. haha. I think it should have said &#8220;A sheller&#8230;.&#8221; instead of &#8221; The sheller&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0but who&#8217;s counting, right? LOL (a little giddy) Here it is.. Just click on the picture if you can&#8217;t read it to make it open in a new window.<a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2089\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/low-tide-sand-bars\/iloveshelling-florida-weekly-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1584,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"iloveshelling Florida Weekly\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1-662x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2089\" title=\"iloveshelling Florida Weekly\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iloveshelling-Florida-Weekly1.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have hot news! But let me tell you about the shelling news first because I really enjoyed the people I met today and I think you will too&#8230;. It&#8217;s always exciting at low tide on the sand bars at the beach. I wasn&#8217;t really finding any keeper shells (or those live BABY EAR tracks) [&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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[320,318],"tags":[2100,106,2121,339,344,137,2082,71,80],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-weekly","category-ils-com-in-the-news","tag-bubble-shell","tag-casa-ybel-resort","tag-florida-weekly","tag-florida-weekly-sheller","tag-pam-rambo","tag-sanibel-island","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","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-xB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}