{"id":24639,"date":"2016-02-29T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:16:33","slug":"magical-moments-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/magical-moments-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Moments On the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

How quickly the beach changes with each wave.<\/p>\n

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

Right before my eyes, a WHELK appears…<\/p>\n

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

I was very lucky this week to have a TRUE TULIP wash up on one of my beach walks last week at Gulfside City Park beach as well.<\/p>\n

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

And an ANGEL WING… always magical.Magical<\/p>\n

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

A colorful FLAME BOX CRAB shell…<\/p>\n

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

This little cutie too… a CALICO CRAB shell.<\/p>\n

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

Over the weekend as I walked across from Sanibel to Captiva on the Blind Pass bridge, I saw Mike (VA) walking with a huge shell in his hand… A huge empty HORSE CONCH! He found it on the new sand bar in the pass on the Captiva side (you can see a little of it in the photo to the right). So awesome.<\/p>\n

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

Yep, the sand has been gathering here for about a month to make the sand bar again. It catches some really good stuff whenever it appears.<\/p>\n

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

When I got to the other side of those jetty rocks, there’s still a huge shell pile. It’s been coming and going here for about a month too. The shells get washed into a big pile then taken back out… then washed in again.<\/p>\n

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

If you just dig through, it seems there’s always something to uncover…<\/p>\n

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

I found a nice JUNONIA but it had already been cracked open and had made a nice meal for some\u00a0BOX CRAB… but I think it’s a fun piece anyway.<\/p>\n

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

My fave find though was this sweet little perfect ZIG ZAG FLAT SCALLOP- such a beautiful color.<\/p>\n

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

Although I love my little FLAT, I am so happy for Jeanne who found this absolutely drop dead gorgeous teeny tiny little LIONS PAW. It’s so dang cute I can’t stand it!<\/p>\n

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

I’m so sorry I haven’t been posting as much these days – where does the time go? As soon as I get home from the beach, there’s never enough time any more to get my photos arranged. But rest assured, I still have so many stories to tell you as well as I will soon be showing you some fun exhibits from the 79th Annual Sanibel Shell Festival coming up this Thursday through Saturday March 3, 4 and 5, 2016. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

\"79<\/a><\/p>\n

Join me on one of our next iLoveShelling Adventures…<\/p>\n

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

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How quickly the beach changes with each wave. Right before my eyes, a WHELK appears… I was very lucky this week to have a TRUE TULIP wash up on one of my beach walks last week at Gulfside City Park beach as well. And an ANGEL WING… always magical.Magical A colorful FLAME BOX CRAB shell… […]<\/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":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lions-paw","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-6pp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639","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=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24658,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions\/24658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}