{"id":24866,"date":"2016-03-29T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=24866"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:37:49","slug":"my-inner-south-carolina-seashell-artist-is-channeling-whelks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/my-inner-south-carolina-seashell-artist-is-channeling-whelks\/","title":{"rendered":"My Inner South Carolina Seashell Artist Is Channeling Whelks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am channeling my inner artist looking at these CHANNELED WHELKS<\/strong><\/a> as I look back on our shelling trip to the Carolinas earlier this month ( our first stop was …\u00a0Beach Combing Trip To Portsmouth Island)<\/strong><\/a>. I could have taken hundreds of photos of these incredishelly beautiful works of art as I saw them laying in the sand half buried in the islands of\u00a0Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n

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Seeing KNOBBED WHELKS<\/strong> <\/a>and OYSTER SHELLS rolling up in the surf was a masterful sight to behold.<\/p>\n

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Mother Nature artfully placed a SAND DOLLAR as though she staged this still-life for me to photograph.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t find all of her still-lifes in obvious places. These 2 KNOBBED WHELK shells, an ANGEL WING and oodles of OYSTER SHELLS were behind a large wrack line of driftwood, seaweeds and various sticks from sea oats and sea grasses.<\/p>\n

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The EASTERN OYSTER SHELLS are so beautiful as well, especially the juveniles as they form stunning sculptures.<\/p>\n

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After searching for miles, we found an area filled with the sweet adorable miniature shells. There were even WENTLETRAPS!<\/p>\n

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And then, Whelp… another WHELK.<\/p>\n

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How can they be this gorgeous?<\/p>\n

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

We found dried KNOBBED WHELK EGG CASES too. They are so similar to our LIGHTNING WHELK egg cases we find in Sanibel but the KNOBBED WHELK EGG SACK disks are\u00a0little more oval in shape.<\/p>\n

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But this just may have been the find of trip…. \u00a0a GIANT EASTERN MUREX. Boom Shellalaka! It may not have been he prettiest shell on the beach but it really is giant and it just seemed impossible that we would find one. \u00a0I can’t claim finding it- our friend (our hostess with mostest) Karen found it then gave it to me. Omigosh really? We don’t normally bring home shells that we don’t find ourselves (we are fortunate to already have enough) but it is an amazing memory from that day and an awesome shell. Very cool- thank you!<\/p>\n

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

Clark and I (in red colors) are still smiling from our shelling trip with Nanette, Helen, Jackie, Karen and Captain Dan. We met all of them in McClellinville, South Carolina where Karen’s buddy Captain Dan Scarborough took us out on his boat to the out islands. I can’t even explain how much fun it was island hopping out on the boat all day with this crew.<\/p>\n

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We brought back a few brilliant shells with different color patterns that look like Mother Nature had a field day with her architectural designs and paint brush.<\/p>\n

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

Clark and I\u00a0are so grateful to these Three Crazy Carolina Girls- Jackie, Helen and Karen for inviting us on this unforgettable shelling trip. Love these girls!<\/p>\n

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

To join me on a shelling trip adventure in SW Florida…
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I am channeling my inner artist looking at these CHANNELED WHELKS as I look back on our shelling trip to the Carolinas earlier this month ( our first stop was …\u00a0Beach Combing Trip To Portsmouth Island). I could have taken hundreds of photos of these incredishelly beautiful works of art as I saw them laying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24867,"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":[2198,1811,1697,1810,2200,190,2199,2008,2007],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cape-romain","category-channeled-whelk","category-eastern-oyster","category-knobbed-whelk","category-knobbed-whelk-egg-case","category-oyster","category-south-carolina","category-wentletrap","category-whelk","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\/2016\/03\/channeled-whelk-shells.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-6t4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866","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=24866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}