{"id":23358,"date":"2015-07-27T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=23358"},"modified":"2015-07-27T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:41:18","slug":"wildlife-week-on-sanibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/wildlife-week-on-sanibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Week On Sanibel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It’s wild how many colors and patterns of COQUINA shells my friend Celeste<\/strong><\/a> and I found last week on Sanibel.<\/p>\n

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

Combing the beach to look for beautiful treasures\u00a0is the best place in the world to catch up with a dear friend like Celeste- especially finding COQUINAS as colorful as she is.<\/p>\n

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

Oh yes, she is very colorful, wild and very talented. She was one of my first friends I met when we moved to Sanibel and she has kept me laughing ever since. She makes clay art that is as colorful as any COQUINA and she makes\u00a0sealife for most of her pieces. I just have to show off one of her pieces to you… it has SEAHORSES, FISH, OCTOPUSES and even STINGRAYS. \u00a0You can see some of her other sealife inspired pieces at ABohemeLife.com<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n

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

There was a lot of other wildlife happening on Sanibel this past week (other than hanging out with Celeste- heehee). DOLPHINS were racing up and down near the Sanibel pier.<\/p>\n

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

I also had another dear friend and wild woman in town… Lizbeth<\/strong><\/a>. All in one day on Sanibel, she and her family witnessed SCCF<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation) count LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE \u00a0nest eggs (photo by Lizbeth)…<\/p>\n

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

And… They they witnessed a rescued of two baby LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES (photo by Lizbeth)…<\/p>\n

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

And then… \u00a0she and her sister saw a BOBCAT cross a beach path (photo by Lizbeth) …<\/p>\n

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

Then they saw a\u00a0mother LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE laying eggs on the beach… and I got to see this one too! This photo is very dark and slightly pink because you can only have a red filtered light on the beach in SEA TURTLE nesting season (May through September) on Sanibel. We wanted to be very careful and respectful \u00a0while\u00a0in the presence of this\u00a0incredible creature in a moment like this. It’s a memory I will never forget. So cool!<\/p>\n

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

During daylight hours, SCCF marked the nest and reminded us of the full circle of SEA TURTLE EGGS of the weeks events.
\n\"Sanibel<\/a><\/p>\n

Then the rain started. It has been raining and raining for days and it’s hardly stopped. I should record the crickets, frogs and croaking alligators that are loving it. My back yard is filled with water so our yard shells look like they’ve gone back to the ocean… covered with water. It’s actually a beautiful sight with everything so green and lush with the symphony of nature in the background. It’s been a wild week.<\/p>\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s wild how many colors and patterns of COQUINA shells my friend Celeste and I found last week on Sanibel. Combing the beach to look for beautiful treasures\u00a0is the best place in the world to catch up with a dear friend like Celeste- especially finding COQUINAS as colorful as she is. Oh yes, she is […]<\/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":[1170,45,1993,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobcat","category-coquina","category-dolphin","category-sea-turtle","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-64K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358","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=23358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23378,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions\/23378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}