{"id":24120,"date":"2015-12-03T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:29:38","slug":"star-light-star-bright-pretty-starfish-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/03\/star-light-star-bright-pretty-starfish-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Light, Star Bright. Pretty Starfish in Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Star light, star bright. First STARFISH yesterday in sight.<\/p>\n

SEASTARS are always so much fun to see. This beautiful creature went right back in the calm, clear Gulf water where Linda and David (TN) found it while on our iLoveShelling adventure with Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a><\/span> yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"Lynn<\/p>\n

I was also thrilled to see this gorgeous SHARKS EYE OPERCULUM<\/strong><\/a> that Jill (Peculiar, Missouri) found. She brought it over for me to identify and I think I went a little crazy… “Omigosh it’s perfect!”. \u00a0
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\"Jill<\/a><\/p>\n

I always love when other beachcombers have an eye for the\u00a0unusual pieces of beach bling and want to know what it is. She said she saw that cool swirl on it so she picked it up. Most people would have walked right over it… but not Jill! (check out\u00a0our first one\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>-errr…. but its nowhere near as pretty as her’s).<\/p>\n

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

I think Jill found that OPERCULUM because she has an eye for the small BIVALVES and likes to find shells she’s never found before. I think there are about 9 different species on her towel she brought to wrap them in for safe travels.<\/p>\n

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

Jill’s not the only one that loves the bling and unusual,\u00a0\u00a0Shelly<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0found all sorts of fab finds like FEATHERS, SEA URCHINS and huge shell pieces. Look at that happy smile on such a beautiful day at Cayo Costa Island!<\/p>\n

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

The water was an amazing 75 degrees for Mac and Delta ( Los Angeles) to wade and scoop up a few treasures like LETTERED OLIVES and FIGHTING CONCHS. So much fun hanging out in the water with y’all!
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\"Mac<\/a><\/p>\n

We all found oodles of live\u00a0OLIVES in the water and on the beach that we had to put back where we found them… but we were also lucky\u00a0enough to find a few really glossy empty ones too.<\/p>\n

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

Sue and Jens from NC were happy to find a few OLIVES and a stunning LIGHTNING WHELK too.<\/p>\n

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

And PURPLISH TAGELUS shells too. These were scattered all along the mid tied wrack line on the beach so once we found one, we followed the same tide line to find so many more.<\/p>\n

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

That was actually the same shell line that Krys and Mandy (Richmond, Virginia) found lots of dried out SEA URCHINS. They also found some sweet little COMB BITTERSWEETS with amazing patterns but my photo just didn’t turn out well. (I’m going to look for those COMB BITTERSWEETS the next time on Cayo Costa)\u00a0
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\"Krys<\/a><\/p>\n

We were barely off the boat\u00a0stepping foot on the beach when\u00a0Louisette and Michael (from Massachusettes) found a pile of shells they started scooping up. Louisette is a Sailor’s Valentine artist so she was in heaven with all of the common ARKS, VENUS shells, JINGLES and KITTENS PAWS all the same size for her work.<\/p>\n

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

Local shellers Cazzie and Beth (Fort Myers Beach) found showed me their fave shells they found- Cazzie with a CONCH and Beth with a juvie lemon yellow HORSE CONCH.<\/p>\n

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

So Cazzie realized that he had never seen this\u00a0shell ever before on our beaches … \u00a0hmmmm… Yep- he was right. We don’t normally find these type CONCHS on our beaches. It’s what I call a “WEDDING S<\/a>HELL<\/strong><\/span>” which is a shell from the\u00a0other side of the planet that someone bought in a shell shop and threw out on the beach to decorate or something (for whole story-\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>). I haven’t seen that many WEDDING SHELLS at Cayo Costa so it was pretty fun to see this one and know it is a very common shell in Okinawa, Japan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>– we saw them on every single beach when we visited there. When I asked Cazzie what his favorite shell of the day was… he showed me the WEDDING SHELL. :)<\/p>\n

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

Rena brought her friend Nancy (Boston) who had never even heard the term “sheller” before this trip- A newbie! She might even consider herself a sheller now? haha Hopefully!<\/p>\n

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

I had a twin on our cruise! Susan and I showed up with the same outfits on- same hat and\u00a0iLoveShelling tee shirt<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. She and her husband Stuart were on a cruise last year with us when Stuart found an OLIVE without a tip. She took that OLIVE shell to Congress Jewelers with her certificate she received on our iLoveShelling trip and had this necklace made she has on this the next photo. A wonderful memory from last year- i LOVE that!!!! So much fun to see y’all.<\/p>\n

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

Just like Susan and Stuart, each passenger on this and all iLoveShelling cruises received a $25 gift certificate from\u00a0Congress Jewelers<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Sealife By Congress)\u00a0to use\u00a0in their store. Thank you Congress Jewelers for being so generous with the iLoveShelling community!
\n\"Sealife<\/a><\/p>\n

Join us! For future dates CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Pam-rambo-sanibel-shell-trips\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Star light, star bright. First STARFISH yesterday in sight. SEASTARS are always so much fun to see. This beautiful creature went right back in the calm, clear Gulf water where Linda and David (TN) found it while on our iLoveShelling adventure with Captiva Cruises yesterday. I was also thrilled to see this gorgeous SHARKS EYE […]<\/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":[1393,116,142,1819,1977,2003,1980,27,1740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brown-spiny-sea-star","category-captiva-cruises","category-cayo-costa-beachcombing","category-lettered-olive-olive","category-olive","category-operculum","category-purplish-tagelus","category-starfish-sea-star","category-sharks-eye-operculum","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-6h2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","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=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28113,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/28113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}