{"id":21136,"date":"2014-11-02T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=21136"},"modified":"2014-11-02T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T13:45:36","slug":"high-west-winds-bring-in-seashells-and-sea-squirts-to-sanibel-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/high-west-winds-bring-in-seashells-and-sea-squirts-to-sanibel-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"High West Winds Bring In Seashells and Sea Squirts To Sanibel Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These are the beautiful treasures we are used to seeing on Sanibel after strong winds from the Gulf Of Mexico.<\/p>\n

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Brittany (Georgia) and her dad Steve (Kentucky) found plenty of BANDED TULIPS, LIGHTNING WHELKS, LETTERED OLIVES and APPLE MUREXES at Gulfside City Park beach yesterday.<\/p>\n

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

The weird thing? Those SEA SQUIRTS<\/strong><\/a> are back again by the gazillions – just like in September at Blind Pass like I showed you in the post Sanibel Sea Squirt Spectacle<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But this time there were more shells mixed in with them. Look at those beautiful shells Clark found! He found that awesome ALPHABET CONE \u00a0within 10 minutes of wading in the water. He said all of these shells were found by blind scooping in the water with his trusty shelling backhoe.<\/p>\n

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We found unbelievably huge SEA PORK chunks all over the beach as well. SEA PORK is a TUNICATE<\/strong><\/a> as well so its in the same family as the SEA SQUIRTS.<\/p>\n

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There were quite a few baby STARFISH along the shore line as well. This little one was still alive so I put it back in the water for a chance of survival.<\/p>\n

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Clark showed me another huge glob of SEA PORK. Wowza! They are so pretty when they are this bright orange. Im not sure if its true, but I read somewhere that if SEA PORK has a\u00a0bright color like this to it, it is\u00a0still alive (well, the zooids that live inside might be still alive). So this one went back in the water.<\/p>\n

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

I found plenty of PURPLE SEA WHIPS but I dint find any that had the ONE TOOTH SIMNIAS<\/strong><\/a> or WINGED OYSTERS<\/strong><\/a> on them.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never seen so many different types of SPONGES washed up…<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0was probably the biggest and most perfect DEAD MANS FINGER sponge Ive ever seen.<\/p>\n

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There were even other weird TUNICATES hiding within the SEA PORK and SPONGES. This one was a little more gooey but had bright orange lobes just like some of the other SEA PORK TUNICATES. After such high winds, its so interesting to see all of the different plants and creatures that get washed up on our beaches. It’s like our own private\u00a0touch tank – I love it!<\/p>\n

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

The rewards are even greater when we uncover little beauties like these to admire.<\/p>\n

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

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Dont forget to register for our iLoveShelling 5 year Shellaversary<\/strong><\/a>! You could win 5 Nights Stay at Island Inn!\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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These are the beautiful treasures we are used to seeing on Sanibel after strong winds from the Gulf Of Mexico. Brittany (Georgia) and her dad Steve (Kentucky) found plenty of BANDED TULIPS, LIGHTNING WHELKS, LETTERED OLIVES and APPLE MUREXES at Gulfside City Park beach yesterday. The weird thing? Those SEA SQUIRTS are back again by […]<\/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":[111,2024,1925,27,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sea-fan","category-sea-pork","category-sea-squirts","category-starfish-sea-star","category-sea-whip","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-5uU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136","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=21136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21152,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions\/21152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}