{"id":22670,"date":"2015-04-13T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=22670"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:22:01","slug":"lost-and-found-on-sanibel-it-takes-a-social-shell-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/lost-and-found-on-sanibel-it-takes-a-social-shell-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost And Found On Sanibel- It Takes A Social Shell Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you are looking for shells on Sanibel but you aren’t having any luck finding “the big ones”, you should revisit those common shells that are always on our beaches. There’s not a day that goes by that our beaches aren’t filled with CROSS-BARRED VENUS shells. Each one is different with their colors and patterns. They are a shell crafters dream seashell!<\/p>\n

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Walking the beach yesterday at Gulfside City Park, Clark and I were only finding the common shells until Clark took a blind scoop in the water scooped up alive BABYS EAR in his shelling backhoe. He laughed and handed it to me… it was shaped like a heart! So cute! Of course, I snapped a photo then placed it back into the water under the sand.<\/p>\n

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Just a few days before, we were finding all sorts of treasures in the water at Gulfside City Park.<\/p>\n

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It just goes to show you that every day on Sanibel is a treasure hunt. You just never know what you will find so I always try to find something… anything… \u00a0just any reason to get out on the beach. \u00a0Then it becomes such a treat when you find a handful of shelliciousness with a dollop of cumulus clouds like this…<\/p>\n

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Speaking of finding special treasures… \u00a0our iLoveShelling community was involved in finding a lost engagement ring on the beach! The story even ended up in our local paper The Islander<\/strong><\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Sharon Michie of Cottages To Castles<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0suggested to her client Nancy Carr that she tell her story of her lost diamond engagement ring to the\u00a0iLoveShelling community on Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>It worked! Barbara Anderson replied with a suggestion to call TheRingFinders<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and within 6 hours, her ring was found. It had been buried 14 inches under the sand and they still found it!<\/p>\n

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Shellers rock! …. And shellers find “rocks” (heehee). \u00a0Sometimes it takes a Sanibel Social Shelling Village to find treasures. This is the photo with me, Craig Ostendorf of TheRingFinders.com (with the ring) and Sharon Michie. Sharon shipped the ring to Nancy who is now back home in Canada. Happy Ending!<\/p>\n

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PS- Since we are talking all about happy stuff…. Clark was golfing yesterday (with his buddy John) – he got a Hole In One! His first ever and it was on the Sunday of The Masters. He felt like he found a left handed JUNONIA- hahaha.<\/p>\n

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If you are looking for shells on Sanibel but you aren’t having any luck finding “the big ones”, you should revisit those common shells that are always on our beaches. There’s not a day that goes by that our beaches aren’t filled with CROSS-BARRED VENUS shells. Each one is different with their colors and patterns. […]<\/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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-barred-venus","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-5TE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","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=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22687,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions\/22687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}