{"id":24372,"date":"2016-01-13T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=24372"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:29:07","slug":"chillin-with-a-chilly-shelling-trip-to-cayo-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/chillin-with-a-chilly-shelling-trip-to-cayo-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chillin’ With A Chilly Shelling trip to Cayo Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve had a nice cold snap that brought in some great lines of shells this week just in time for our iLoveShelling beach combing adventure<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to Cayo Costa island with Captiva Cruises<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Okay, I know…. I should actually say “chilly snap” instead of “cold snap” since it was in the 60s but with the wind and being in the boat, it feels great\u00a0to break out the jackets in Florida. So we bundled up and hit the beach just like twin sisters Debbi, Darlene from MA who found SUNRAY VENUSES, ANGEL WINGS, an ALPHABET CONE and lots of other treasures.<\/p>\n

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Those were the same favorites that Pam and Mark from Baltimore found too.<\/p>\n

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Joe, Liliana (NY) and Tim (Michigan) filled their shells buckets to stock up on some fun with art projects for the winter.<\/p>\n

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I love days when there are lots of BEACH BLING that washes up on the shore as well… so lucky! A CRUCIFIX SHELL<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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We even found a live SEA CUCUMBER washed up on the beach so we snapped a photo then returned it to the water.<\/p>\n

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I got soooo tickled with this next group of shellers from Pennsylvania… Stephen, Kathy, Phyllis and Dennis. Every step of the way, these guys were smiling and laughing with every stoop- y’all are so much fun! And congrats on your “concrete” find, Dennis. heehee<\/p>\n

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I wish I could have shown you all the cool stuff Stephen found but the SHARKS EYE, BANDED TULIP, OLIVES and SUNRAY VENUS were so striking. Of course that fact that he picked up a BUTTERCUP, you gotta like this guy (Clark loves BUTTERCUPS so Im a little partial to them). He had found the little olive (on his wrist) on a previous trip to Sanibel so Kathy made that bracelet for him. I love that!<\/p>\n

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It was a wonderful day to be chillin’ with so many cool shellers and find out we have mutual friends. Jim Tony, Bert and Lois\u00a0say “Hi” to Diana for me! ;)<\/p>\n

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Well, some of my photos didn’t turn out so well but I still wanted to show you that there are so many different and unusual things to find … from COFFEE MELAMPUS to MORTONS EGG COCKLES to SEA PEARLS to JINGLES to TULIPS to OLIVES.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is exactly what makes shelling so much fun.<\/p>\n

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You can tell by seeing everybody all wrapped up on the way back to Captiva having a little Shell N Tell like Marie from Michigan.<\/p>\n

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Its always so much fun to see the treasures.<\/p>\n

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Its always such a treat to see Sue Bunkin<\/strong><\/span><\/a> whom I met on the beach years and years ago along with her beautiful family.\u00a0Sue has spread the shelling love down through the generations of her family and now out to\u00a0her girlfriends Mary, (Sue), Helen and Karen.\u00a0\"shelling<\/a><\/p>\n

It was so much fun to meet\u00a0Mary and Karen (Lakeland, FL) when they showed me their favorite shells they found – OLIVES and TULIPS… while Karen told me that my blog and videos have helped her teach Marine Science to her students. Wow! I’m so honored\u00a0I could help\u00a0share the love and wonder of the beach and sea creatures with her class. Thank you Mary and Karen, that makes me verrrrry happy.<\/p>\n

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You can also see happiness in the face of Michelle from Denver after she showed me her 2 incredible double VENUS SUNRAYS. These beautiful gifts from the sea will be perfect reminders just how special a day out on the water and exploring a new beach really is.<\/p>\n

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As always, 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!<\/p>\n

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Join me on another iLoveShelling adventure\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS- In the first photo, are WORM SHELLS, FALSE ANGEL WING, BABYS EARS, LETTERED OLIVE, LIGHTNING WHELK and ROSE PETAL TELLIN found by Diane from Tucson<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on our trip (she didn’t want her photograph again- heehee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a nice cold snap that brought in some great lines of shells this week just in time for our iLoveShelling beach combing adventure to Cayo Costa island with Captiva Cruises. Okay, I know…. I should actually say “chilly snap” instead of “cold snap” since it was in the 60s but with the wind […]<\/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":[1985,116,142,1991,1948,2020,2022,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-bling-sea-debris","category-captiva-cruises","category-cayo-costa-beachcombing","category-crucifix-shell","category-echinoderm","category-sea-bean","category-sea-cucumber","category-sea-pearl","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-6l6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372","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=24372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28112,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions\/28112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}