{"id":23816,"date":"2015-10-04T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=23816"},"modified":"2016-02-14T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T14:20:50","slug":"not-waiting-for-the-calm-after-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/not-waiting-for-the-calm-after-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Waiting For the Calm After The Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Even though Hurricane Joaquin has been churning in the Caribbean hundreds of miles from Sanibel and Captiva the last few days, those north and west winds have effected our beaches and churned our gulf coast as well.<\/p>\n

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

This\u00a0weekend Clark and I combed the beaches (through intermittent rain without lightning) finding some cool\u00a0broken brick\/concrete chunks with turquoise paint (maybe an old floor?), lots of incredible “sun beam” SCALLOPS and other assorted shells and bling getting tossed up by the rough surf on the beaches closer to Captiva.<\/p>\n

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

Clark found lots of dreamy creamsicle shelliciousness at Bowman’s Beach.<\/p>\n

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

The gulf was much calmer near Gulfside Beach which made for a beautiful sunset to show off Ray’s perfect little juvie SAND DOLLAR.<\/p>\n

\"Ray's<\/a><\/p>\n

Although Ray (from Nantucket) is visiting Sanibel for a fishing trip,\u00a0he found\u00a0his first SAND DOLLAR (he called it a sand nickel – heehee) along with some other shells. He noticed it was still a little dark so he knew to\u00a0search for any signs of life by looking for any “fur” or cilia anywhere on the body. He asked me to check it out to make sure as well…. yep, he was right- no fur. It’s a keeper!<\/p>\n

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

At Lighthouse Beach, the wind was kicking up and the shells were starting to roll in…. but you had to fast to snag them or the waves would take them right back out as fast as they came in. Dale and Wayne (Jacksonville, FL) were lucky enough to catch a few good ones but Dale said this ALPHABET CONE was the best of their collection. Awesome!<\/p>\n

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

Just like this weekend, each SW Florida beach this week will probably be changing by the hour. That’s why we love to be out there and it keeps us coming back, right?<\/p>\n

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

I can’t wait to see what we find on our iLoveShelling Adventure to Cayo Costa tomorrow with Captiva Cruise<\/strong><\/a><\/span>s- So excited! If you won’t be joining us tomorrow, check out more dates by CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Pam-rambo-sanibel-shell-trips\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though Hurricane Joaquin has been churning in the Caribbean hundreds of miles from Sanibel and Captiva the last few days, those north and west winds have effected our beaches and churned our gulf coast as well. This\u00a0weekend Clark and I combed the beaches (through intermittent rain without lightning) finding some cool\u00a0broken brick\/concrete chunks with […]<\/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":[2190,95,47,2045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-hearts","category-calico","category-sand-dollar","category-scallop","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-6c8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816","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=23816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23830,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions\/23830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}