{"id":25901,"date":"2016-11-25T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=25901"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T18:56:19","slug":"island-beach-combing-treats-and-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/25\/island-beach-combing-treats-and-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Beach Combing Treats and Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25910 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1.jpg\" alt=\"finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took a great deal of patience not to immediately pounce on this LETTERED OLIVE, FIGHTING CONCH and 2 pieces of gorgeous CORAL but instead take the time to get a photo before a wave washed them away. \u00a0Same goes for this FLORDA CONE&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-on-the-beach-in-the-sand-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25907 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/cone-shell-on-the-beach-1.jpg\" alt=\"cone-shell-on-the-beach-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cone-shell-on-the-beach-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cone-shell-on-the-beach-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heehee &#8230; but I did it to show you that sometimes the whole shells are hiding near broken bits of shell crush so they are harder to find. I spotted these shells on our iLoveShelling cruise with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sightseaflorida.com\/home\"><strong>Sight Sea-R Cruises<\/strong><\/a> after we pulled up to this gorgeous island of Big Hickory last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/shellng-tour-boat-florida-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25917 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/shellng-tour-boat-florida-1.jpg\" alt=\"shellng-tour-boat-florida-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shellng-tour-boat-florida-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shellng-tour-boat-florida-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gulf Of Mexico was calm, clear and dotted with shells along the shore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-on-Big-Hickory-Island-Florida-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25903 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-on-Big-Hickory-Island-Florida-1.jpg\" alt=\"beach-combing-on-big-hickory-island-florida-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-on-Big-Hickory-Island-Florida-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-on-Big-Hickory-Island-Florida-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the best part of our trip was&#8230;. awesome shellers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beautiful-beach-comber-with-shells-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25905 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beautiful-beach-comber-with-shells-1.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful-beach-comber-with-shells-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beautiful-beach-comber-with-shells-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beautiful-beach-comber-with-shells-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finding awesome treasures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-beautiful-sea-shells-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25915 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-beautiful-sea-shells-1.jpg\" alt=\"sand-dollar-with-beautiful-sea-shells-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-beautiful-sea-shells-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-beautiful-sea-shells-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/large-alphabet-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25912 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/large-alphabet-1.jpg\" alt=\"large-alphabet-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large-alphabet-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large-alphabet-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-in-florida-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25909 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-in-florida-1.jpg\" alt=\"finding-shells-in-florida-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-in-florida-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finding-shells-in-florida-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-alphabet-cones-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25914 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-alphabet-cones-1.jpg\" alt=\"sand-dollar-with-alphabet-cones-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-alphabet-cones-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sand-dollar-with-alphabet-cones-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/fun-beach-combers-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25911 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/fun-beach-combers-1.jpg\" alt=\"fun-beach-combers-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fun-beach-combers-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fun-beach-combers-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/find-sea-shells-in-florida-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25908 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/find-sea-shells-in-florida-1.jpg\" alt=\"find-sea-shells-in-florida-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/find-sea-shells-in-florida-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/find-sea-shells-in-florida-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/shell-finds-from-iLS-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25916 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/shell-finds-from-iLS-1.jpg\" alt=\"shell-finds-from-ils-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shell-finds-from-iLS-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shell-finds-from-iLS-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. And beach bling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-seashell-and-sand-dollar-finds-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25904 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-seashell-and-sand-dollar-finds-1.jpg\" alt=\"beach-combing-seashell-and-sand-dollar-finds-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-seashell-and-sand-dollar-finds-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach-combing-seashell-and-sand-dollar-finds-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/collecting-shells-boat-our-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25906 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/collecting-shells-boat-our-1.jpg\" alt=\"collecting-shells-boat-our-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/collecting-shells-boat-our-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/collecting-shells-boat-our-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were even treated to a DOLPHIN &#8220;show&#8221;. They followed our boat for so long and were so playful long side us, I think they wanted to hang out with us and see what kinds of shells we found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/dolphin-cruise-with-shellers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25918 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/dolphin-cruise-with-shellers.jpg\" alt=\"dolphin-cruise-with-shellers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dolphin-cruise-with-shellers.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dolphin-cruise-with-shellers-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dolphin-cruise-with-shellers-95x54.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a marvelous day surrounded with fabshellous folks. Thank yall for joining me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/pam-rambo-with-i-love-shelling-shell-tour-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25913 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2016\/11\/pam-rambo-with-i-love-shelling-shell-tour-1.jpg\" alt=\"pam-rambo-with-i-love-shelling-shell-tour-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pam-rambo-with-i-love-shelling-shell-tour-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pam-rambo-with-i-love-shelling-shell-tour-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lets get together for a shelling day! Check out my upcoming dates&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/iloveshelling-events\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/iloveshelling-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25698\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours-.jpg\" alt=\"shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours-.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours--300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours--768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelling-trips-pam-rambo-seashell-tours--1024x445.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a great deal of patience not to immediately pounce on this LETTERED OLIVE, FIGHTING CONCH and 2 pieces of gorgeous CORAL but instead take the time to get a photo before a wave washed them away. \u00a0Same goes for this FLORDA CONE&#8230; Heehee &#8230; but I did it to show you that sometimes [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[1897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-hickory-island","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901","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=25901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28092,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions\/28092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}