{"id":2109,"date":"2010-06-27T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:20:26","slug":"red-branch-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/red-branch-coral\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Branch Coral?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris's red coral or sponge<\/p><\/div>\n

Chris and Sarah picked up this vibrant piece of beach treasure and thought it was a little piece of red branch CORAL. As you can see, it has the shape and branches like coral and so full of color. This is a very cool find…..but….I actually think this is a red SPONGE. I’m not sure it will last long (at times they turn to goo, fall apart or lose their color) but still, it’s beautiful and it’s fun to see different gifts from the sea.<\/p>\n

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Chris, Sarah and baby Logan (Crawfordsville, Indiana)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Colorful Moon shell and Kings Crown<\/p><\/div>\n

Clark found this not-so-pretty nice sized KINGS CROWN<\/a> at the lighthouse beach this weekend. Whether they have barnacles, slime, algae or worn spines, I still like them if nobody has made a home of it and clean them up. Most of the time, I can make them beautiful again by using old dental tools to pick off the barnacles, a tooth brush or scrub brush, and just a tad of bleach to get rid of the algae. I thought I’d shock you when I showed you a before and after picture when I started on the clean up. I started picking….. cleaning…… scrubbing….. errrrrr…… a little better….. back to cleaning…….. hmmmmm. Well, this is the best that this shell is going to get for me right now.<\/p>\n

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Semi-cleaned up King's Crown<\/p><\/div>\n

Not too much of a shocker but it was still worth a try. The other side looks pretty good.<\/p>\n

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Cleaned King's Crown<\/p><\/div>\n

We have our fair share of King’s Crowns, so when we go back to the lighthouse, we will return this where we found it so that someone else might be able to enjoy it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris and Sarah picked up this vibrant piece of beach treasure and thought it was a little piece of red branch CORAL. As you can see, it has the shape and branches like coral and so full of color. This is a very cool find…..but….I actually think this is a red SPONGE. I’m not sure […]<\/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":[1988,1381,13,29,8,2031],"tags":[349,112,341,279,32,347,2053,348,351,352,137,353,251,223,345,71,350],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coral","category-colorful-moon-shell","category-kings-crown","category-lighthouse","category-sanibel","category-sponge","tag-banicle","tag-beach","tag-beach-treasure","tag-colorful-moon-snail","tag-coral","tag-family-activity","tag-kings-crown","tag-moon-snail","tag-red-branch-coral","tag-red-sponge","tag-sanibel-island","tag-sea-sponge","tag-seashell","tag-shell","tag-sheller","tag-shelling","tag-tatu-chris","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-y1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","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=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}