{"id":2675,"date":"2010-08-25T08:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:06:01","slug":"manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Island&#8230; less than 1 mile from Sanibel Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2676\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2676\" data-attachment-id=\"2676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/manhattan-to-sanibel-shells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282514594&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Manhattan to Sanibel shells\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jeff (Manhattan)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2676 \" title=\"Manhattan to Sanibel shells\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-to-Sanibel-shells.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff (Manhattan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In between rain showers this week, Jeff was finding some shells but most of the really good ones were alive like this big LIGHTNING WHELK\u00a0he is holding in the photo above.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" data-attachment-id=\"2677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/manhattan-with-fighting-conch-shell\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282515002&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Manhattan with Fighting conch shell\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jeff with a live fighting conch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2677 \" title=\"Manhattan with Fighting conch shell\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-with-Fighting-conch-shell.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff with a live fighting conch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2682\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2682\" data-attachment-id=\"2682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282514994&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Manhattan taking a picture of shell\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;a photo of Jeff of a photo of conch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2682 \" title=\"Manhattan taking a picture of shell\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-taking-a-picture-of-shell.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a photo of Jeff of a photo of conch<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">While I shot Jeff taking a photo of this conch, he told me he was from New York, New York. Manhattan Island. I shared a little fun fact with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Did you know that Manhattan is about the same size as Sanibel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2678\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2678\" data-attachment-id=\"2678\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/manhattan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"443,316\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Manhattan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2678 \" title=\"Manhattan\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Manhattan.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manhattan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2679\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2679\" data-attachment-id=\"2679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/sanibel-map\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,431\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sanibel map\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sanibel&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2679 \" title=\"Sanibel map\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sanibel-map.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanibel<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Manhattan is 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide. Sanibel is around 12 miles long and 3 miles at its widest.\u00a0Weird concept, huh?<a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/sunshine-peeks-on-sanibel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1282514005&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sunshine peeks on Sanibel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2680\" title=\"Sunshine peeks on Sanibel\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunshine-peeks-on-Sanibel.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t forget&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2688\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/write-from-the-beach-giveaway\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2688\" data-attachment-id=\"2688\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/manhattan-island-less-than-1-mile-from-sanibel-island\/sand-dollar-note-card-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sand-Dollar-note-card2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280086229&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sand Dollar note card\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Win the Write From The Beach GiveAway! Click Here!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sand-Dollar-note-card2.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2688 \" title=\"Sand Dollar note card\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sand-Dollar-note-card2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sand-Dollar-note-card2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sand-Dollar-note-card2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Win the Write From The Beach GiveAway! Click Here!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between rain showers this week, Jeff was finding some shells but most of the really good ones were alive like this big LIGHTNING WHELK\u00a0he is holding in the photo above. While I shot Jeff taking a photo of this conch, he told me he was from New York, New York. Manhattan Island. I shared [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,38],"tags":[112,2071,474,472,476,473,137,2082,71,80,475],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighting-conch","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","tag-beach","tag-fighting-conch","tag-lighting-whelk","tag-manhattan-island","tag-map","tag-same-size","tag-sanibel-island","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-sunshine","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-H9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23486,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/23486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}