{"id":3729,"date":"2010-12-10T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2010-12-10T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T04:47:11","slug":"changing-captiva-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/changing-captiva-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Captiva Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sand<\/a>

Today- New sand bar at Blind Pass on Captiva<\/p><\/div>\n

Captiva Island is changing before my eyes these days in more ways than one. First of all, as I drove over the Blind Pass bridge that connects Sanibel Island to Captiva Island, I was shocked to see a new beach that had just formed on the Captiva side. It was low tide, yes, but this is a big change for any tide. Take a look at the difference from last week…..<\/p>\n

\"Sand<\/a>

Last week- Sand bar Dec 6 photo by Kaybe<\/p><\/div>\n

The Essential Beachcomber’s <\/a>Kaybe took the above picture at low tide on December 6.<\/p>\n

\"Shells<\/a>

Today- Shells on Blind Pass sand bar <\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a video of what the scene looked like this morning around 10:30ish. Please excuse my choppy commentary. Now you know why I don’t talk a lot in my videos. LOL<\/p>\n\n

The other big change on Captiva is because of this first ever huge holiday hoopla. As part of the\u00a0Captiva Holiday Village<\/a>, <\/strong>Tween Waters Inn<\/a><\/strong> hosted a Sunset Aria ….. Opera on the beach this evening!<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a>

Sunset Aria Opera singers<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Opera<\/a>

Opera on Tween Waters beach<\/p><\/div>\n

And after sunset….. Fire Dancers and Beach Drummers!!!<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/a>

Fire dancers on the beach<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve finally recovered from last week’s golf cart parade and luminary and saved all those decorations from the iLoveShelling golf cart<\/strong><\/a> to dress up our booth for the 1st Annual\u00a0Marketplace today, tomorrow and Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"i<\/a>

With Donna and Cheryl<\/p><\/div>\n

I met some new shelling sisters! Donna and Cheryl were the first ones to visit our booth at Chadwick’s Square at South Seas Island Resort<\/strong><\/a> to get some shelling gear.<\/p>\n

\"Pam<\/a>

With Val from New Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

Okay, this was so much fun…blog friend Val\u00a0and her dear friend Dodie (taking pictures) stopped by our booth too! You won’t believe what she made me.<\/p>\n

\"Val's<\/a>

Val's ornament<\/p><\/div>\n

She loves to pick up pieces of shells like these bits of TULIPS, LIGHTNING WHELKS and AUGERS to make flowers and leaves for ornaments. I am so deeply touched she chose to hand craft this ornament for me and I will treasure it every day so thank you so much. This is too special to only put on the Christmas tree, this will be hanging in our home all year round.<\/p>\n

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Captiva Island is changing before my eyes these days in more ways than one. First of all, as I drove over the Blind Pass bridge that connects Sanibel Island to Captiva Island, I was shocked to see a new beach that had just formed on the Captiva side. It was low tide, yes, but this […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,3,16],"tags":[112,710,706,660,2056,708,322,704,681,251,223,71,709,705,707],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-holiday","category-captiva","category-christmas","tag-beach","tag-beach-drummers","tag-cap","tag-captiva-holiday-village","tag-christmas","tag-fire-dancers","tag-iloveshelling-com","tag-marketplace","tag-ornament","tag-seashell","tag-shell","tag-shelling","tag-sunset-aria","tag-tee-shirt","tag-tote-bag","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-Y9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}