{"id":23379,"date":"2015-07-30T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=23379"},"modified":"2020-01-03T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T13:24:57","slug":"wild-sanibel-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/wild-sanibel-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Sanibel Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wild Sanibel continues to be thriving with live creatures showing up in high definition color this week like oodles of these live COQUINAS near Lighthouse Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Live<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After a few days of west winds, bunches of Beach Bling washed ashore near the Sanibel fishing pier earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We’ve been seeing hundreds of live LINED STARFISH and beautiful purple SEA WHIPS in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Florida<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are so many 9 armed MILLIPEDE STARFISH as well…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"9<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This was one of the biggest live TRUE TULIPS I’ve seen in a while at low tide. Gorgeous and healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now this guy was a little bit creepy. Lots of folks gathered around to see the bright orange snake slithering around the exposed concrete slabs<\/strong><\/a> in the water at the entrance of the Lighthouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’s a non-venomous MANGROVE SALT MARSH SNAKE (Nerodia clarkia compressicauda<\/strong><\/a>).<\/em>  <\/em>Whew- they aren’t poisonous so I took a minute to snap a few more photos and enjoy looking at how handsome he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Orange<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Just last night, Monica from Ocala found a few striking shells along with the brilliant test of a Purple SEA URCHIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Another evening this week Clark saw Maria from Monrovia who found a huge empty HORSE CONCH walking in the water at Bowman’s Beach. Congrats Maria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Maria<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have been so consumed with the living wild creatures, I didn’t see many empty shells… but I’m very happy with one perfect PAPER FIG, a purple SEA URCHIN, 2 juvie FIGHTING CONCHS and a PEAR WHELK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanibel<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

PS- I took a video of some of the live creatures to show you but for some reason in the last few months, it takes forever to download them. Now you know\u00a0why I haven’t done many videos lately! ugh. When it is done, I’ll post it to Youtube- you can find me here….\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/pamrambo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wild Sanibel continues to be thriving with live creatures showing up in high definition color this week like oodles of these live COQUINAS near Lighthouse Beach. After a few days of west winds, bunches of Beach Bling washed ashore near the Sanibel fishing pier earlier this week. We’ve been seeing hundreds of live LINED STARFISH […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23385,"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":[45,1392,98,1398,27,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coquina","category-lined-sea-star","category-millipede-starfish","category-purple-sea-urchin","category-starfish-sea-star","category-urchin","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sanibel-live-colorful-coquinas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-655","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379","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=23379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29189,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379\/revisions\/29189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}