{"id":22585,"date":"2015-04-02T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=22585"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:07:08","slug":"calm-cool-and-collecting-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/calm-cool-and-collecting-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm, Cool and Collecting Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Another day, another fabshellous SAND DOLLAR on our iLoveShelling Adventure to Big Hickory Island with Sight Sea-R Cruises<\/strong> <\/a>yesterday.<\/p>\n

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

It was a blast and an amazingly calm, beautiful day to hunt for shells.<\/p>\n

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

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

Patti Goodwin (Nova Scotia) found a perfect SAND DOLLAR just moments of stepping on the beach. \u00a0That’s her SAND DOLLAR in the first photo with the shell bracelet similar to mine. We both go them from the Sealife By Congress<\/strong><\/a> line at Congress Jewelers.\u00a0Love it!<\/p>\n

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

Erin (Chicago) had great luck with ANGEL WINGS and WORM SHELLS…<\/p>\n

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

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

It was so much fun to meet Megan H and her dad Peter (Illinois) after reading many of her comments here on iLS. Such a lovely time hanging out with you!<\/p>\n

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

Her favorites from the trip include a SAND DOLLAR, ROSE PETAL TELLIN, ANGEL WINGS, KEYHOLE LIMPET, MAUVE MOUTH DRILL and a BUTTON SHELL.<\/p>\n

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

I’m always thrilled to meet such great shelling families who enjoy being out on the beach together exploring.\u00a0Fredrik, James, Michael and Jinny from VA were such a treat to talk with and shell with.
\n\"Fredrik,<\/a><\/p>\n

I was so happy to see that they loose to collect minis. Can you see how big that TUSK SHELL is in James’ hand? He even found a WENTLETRAP!<\/p>\n

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

We had lots of other families too. Like cutie shellooties Pearl and Becca from Sarasota.<\/p>\n

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

Marlene, Max, Emily and Ryan found a few keepers too.<\/p>\n

\"Marlene,<\/a><\/p>\n

Charles, Ava, Andrea and Charlotte came to Southwest Florida from Ohio to enjoy a little shelling…<\/p>\n

\"Charles,<\/a><\/p>\n

So happy Liam, Rosamary, Jillian and Mike drove from north Florida to join us on our shelling adventure…<\/p>\n

\"Liam,<\/a><\/p>\n

Liam and Jillian have quite the shell eye. I wish I had shown a little more of Liam’s LACE MUREX (it’s just peaking out in between the OLIVES and WORMIE)- it’s gorgeous!<\/p>\n

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

Teresa, Reagan, Daniel and Mark were visiting from Kentucky to have some fun shelling.<\/p>\n

\"Teresa,<\/a><\/p>\n

Reagan is another Shelling Sister that loves JINGLES and aqua nail polish (I do too, Reagan!).<\/p>\n

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

So good to see Tim and Mary again as well…<\/p>\n

\"Tim,<\/a><\/p>\n

Time showed me a few of his favorite finds of the day and I couldn’t help but notice his SHARKS EYE had a rough texture on the surface.<\/p>\n

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

A little closer look at it… Aha- That’s SNAIL FUR! SNAIL FUR ( Hydractinia echinat<\/em>a) is a HYDROID (related to JELLYFISH) that forms on shells that have HERMIT CRABS occupying them. Hmmm, I wonder why? I’ve never been able to get it completely off a SHARKS EYE shell without it looking scared but it’s kinda cool just to know what it is that coats SHARKS EYES because I normally don’t see SNAIL FUR on many other type shells.<\/p>\n

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

But anyway, there were other shells that we found that will clean up beautifully!<\/p>\n

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

It was an amazing day on the beach combing and collecting in the cool, blue, calm waters surrounding Big Hickory Island on our Sight Sea-R shelling cruise.<\/p>\n

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

And of course each passenger on this iLoveShelling Adventure received a $25 gift certificate to Congress Jewelers- \u00a0Yahoo!<\/p>\n

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

New Cruise Dates Are Here! I just posted new dates for summer Shelling Adventures –\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/strong> <\/a>for reservations and schedules or click on…<\/p>\n

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

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Another day, another fabshellous SAND DOLLAR on our iLoveShelling Adventure to Big Hickory Island with Sight Sea-R Cruises yesterday. It was a blast and an amazingly calm, beautiful day to hunt for shells. Patti Goodwin (Nova Scotia) found a perfect SAND DOLLAR just moments of stepping on the beach. \u00a0That’s her SAND DOLLAR in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1897,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-hickory-island","category-bonita-beach","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585","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=22585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}