{"id":22455,"date":"2015-03-23T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=22455"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:57:22","slug":"sanibel-treasures-revealed-at-low-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/sanibel-treasures-revealed-at-low-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel Treasures Revealed at Low Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I found a fist full of dollars at Gulfside City Park Beach<\/strong><\/a> this weekend. SAND DOLLARS, that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The evening low tide revealed live and dead SAND DOLLARS (CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to see the difference between live and dead SAND DOLLARS)… but the coolest thing was to see all of the other living creatures we don’t get to see often. Look at this awesome live SHARKS EYE. Cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a live pear whelk…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You wanna guess what live MOLLUSK this next photo is? It came out of a hole in the sand then made a trail along the sand bar. It’s long and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another photo… I’ll let you think about it then I’ll tell you at the end of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at this beautiful flowering purple SEA ANEMONE. Gorgeous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we had two nice low tides each day this weekend (one at sunrise and one at sunset), I even got out to Lighthouse Beach at sunrise (I know, that’s unlike me! haha) to see thousands of live FIGHTING CONCHS invading the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most were alive but there were a few empties scattered on the beach…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s always overwhelming to see so many…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among the live creatures, there were a few empty gifts from the sea as well. Gorgeous BANDED TULIP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awesome orange CHESTNUT TURBAN…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And lots of other empty gems I found half buried in the sand to reveal their gorgeous selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and the live MOLLUSK pictured above with the trail? It’s a BABYS EAR! Cool, huh? To see more LIVE BABYS EARS… CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Join me on a iLoveShelling Shelling Adventure! CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> for dates…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found a fist full of dollars at Gulfside City Park Beach this weekend. SAND DOLLARS, that is. The evening low tide revealed live and dead SAND DOLLARS (CLICK HERE to see the difference between live and dead SAND DOLLARS)… but the coolest thing was to see all of the other living creatures we don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22458,"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":[144,2256,297,1122,254,47,2026,449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-babys-ear","category-keyhole-sand-dollar","category-live-baby-ear","category-live-sharks-eye","category-low-tide","category-sand-dollar","category-sea-anemone","category-sunsets","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Fist-full-of-dollars.-Sand-dollars-that-is-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-5Qb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","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=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29594,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions\/29594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}