{"id":23255,"date":"2015-07-09T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=23255"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:06:19","slug":"a-beautiful-boat-ride-to-a-beautiful-day-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/a-beautiful-boat-ride-to-a-beautiful-day-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful Boat Ride To a Beautiful Day on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

These three awesome ALPHABET CONES were found by Shawn and Dawn (Jacksonville) along with so many other incredishell finds on our Sight Sea-R Cruise to Big Hickory Island<\/strong><\/span><\/a> this week. Shellzam!<\/p>\n

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

Everybody had smiles on their faces like\u00a0Stephanie, Sydney, Lyndey and Carley (Mississippi) as soon as the boat pulled up on the beach.<\/p>\n

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

More smiling faces like\u00a0Kristin, Kathy and Nathan from Fargo.<\/p>\n

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

There were plenty of FARGO WORM SHELLS to take back to Fargo- heehee.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Ken and Abigail (from Dallas) were thrilled to see and learn about the live mollusks like this live LIGHTNING WHELK Abigail found in the water. We snapped this photo then Abigail gently put it back in the water where she found it.<\/p>\n

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

Isabella, John and Carrie from Colorado found another live WHELK too! It is always so much fun to see these gorgeous living creatures for just a second to have such an appreciation for them and learn about them then to return them to their natural habitat.<\/p>\n

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

Isabella has been a collector for years so she didn’t take all of the empty shells she found… but she did keep a few of her favorites. I do the same thing Isabella, it was so nice to hang out with you!<\/p>\n

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

Its always so nice to gather together a bunch of shellers on these iLoveShelling trips because I get to meet so many nice families like Marsha, Paul, Raymond, Lauren, Gary, Robin and Betty\u00a0from North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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

They all found treasures they will forever remember.<\/p>\n

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

So many beautiful families on our trip. So lovely to talk to Nathan, Chris, Matthew and Sarah (KY). \u00a0Happy Birthday Nathan!<\/p>\n

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

Look at their beach combing loot! Pretty good birthday, right?<\/p>\n

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

Sarah not only went for the bigger shells, but also enjoys the minis. I always love to see the mini shells- it makes my heart happy. Sweetness.<\/p>\n

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

The water was so crystal clear, snorkeling was a blast. Cassie and Jolie were like fish!<\/p>\n

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

Local sheller Darla was so happy to find oodles of perfect white shells for shell crafting a frame. Have fun Darla- I love that too!<\/p>\n

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

Orange you glad you went on this trip Lisa (TX)?\u00a0Her whole bag was filled with orange shells! She found orange JINGLES, SLIPPERS, CALICO SCALLOPS, ROUGH SCALLOPS, BAY SCALLOPS, CONCHS, WORM SHELLS and more. Fun!<\/p>\n

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

Mother daughter shellers Penny and Carolyn (also from Texas) were so much to talk to as well.<\/p>\n

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

They found some fabulous shells with such striking patterns.<\/p>\n

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

We saw so much wildlife on the boat ride to the island… MANATEES, DOLPHINS, STINGRAYS and we even passed by a kayaker telling in and catching a REDFISH. So cool!<\/p>\n

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

It was a perfect boat ride to a perfect day on the beach with an awesome group of people.<\/p>\n

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

Join me on another iLoveShelling Adventure! For more info and dates CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

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These three awesome ALPHABET CONES were found by Shawn and Dawn (Jacksonville) along with so many other incredishell finds on our Sight Sea-R Cruise to Big Hickory Island this week. Shellzam! Everybody had smiles on their faces like\u00a0Stephanie, Sydney, Lyndey and Carley (Mississippi) as soon as the boat pulled up on the beach. More smiling […]<\/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":[1897,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-hickory-island","category-bonita-beach","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-635","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255","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=23255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27810,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255\/revisions\/27810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}