{"id":22688,"date":"2015-04-15T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=22688"},"modified":"2015-12-28T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T19:39:54","slug":"beachcombing-at-bowmans-with-flying-gopher-tortoises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/beachcombing-at-bowmans-with-flying-gopher-tortoises\/","title":{"rendered":"Beachcombing At Bowmans With Flying Gopher Tortoises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The sunset at Bowman’s Beach last night was picture perfect… but then so were the shells.<\/p>\n

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

I was combing through a\u00a0wide string of shells a mile long when I came across half buried spots in the sand… omigosh! Rasher frasher… just a piece. But a biiiig piece of JUNONIA. It’s a big beautiful piece of spotted goodness that I will definitely keep for the Shellaboratory<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Almost!<\/a><\/p>\n

There was nothing wrong with fabshellous ZIGZAG FLAT SCALLOP though…<\/p>\n

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

There were all sorts of different shells washed up on the beach. Not only did I find that big honkin JUNONIA frag but I found OLIVES, FIGHTING CONCHS, colorful CALICO and ROUGH SCALLOPS, 2 other FLATS, \u00a0couple of WORMIES. The really surprising thing\u00a0was that I found two ROSE PETAL TELLINS (just below that FLAT at the tip of my fingers). Cool!<\/p>\n

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

I was such a lovely evening hanging out with my friend Ellen (Shellen) …<\/p>\n

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

She found some nice beauties too.<\/p>\n

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

Since the weather was gorgeous, we\u00a0decided to ride bikes to the beach.<\/p>\n

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

I’m so happy we did since we found out where the shells have been hiding!<\/p>\n

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

The last time I rode bikes to Bowmans Beach was with my buddy Diane\u00a0a couple of weeks ago. (She was with me when we saw the BOBCAT on North Captiva<\/strong><\/a>… hmmmm she was also with me when I found my whole JUNONIA<\/a>–<\/strong>\u00a0I need to take her shelling with me more often!) I just realized I never posted this awesome video of our bike ride down one of the paths to the beach. We saw two GOPHER TORTOISES flying down the path directly at us.<\/p>\n

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

I seriously don’t think they thought we had food since we saw them so far down the path already moving so fast. It took me a few minutes to get my camera out and they were still in a full gallop… then I had to get off my bike to let them pass by. It was crazy! Here’s the video…<\/p>\n