{"id":4347,"date":"2011-01-21T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T02:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2018-11-20T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T02:47:56","slug":"day-trip-to-marco-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/day-trip-to-marco-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Trip To Marco Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marco<\/a>

Scotch Bonnet<\/p><\/div>\n

Looky what I found!! A gorgeous 2 \u00a01\/4 inch SCOTCH BONNET! Woot! Woot! I’ve only found pieces of these delicate shells before so this was a biggy find for me. Yippee! It was so exciting.<\/p>\n

\"Scotch<\/a>

Scotch Bonnet aperture<\/p><\/div>\n

Clark and I had never shelled around Marco Island, Florida (about 90 minutes south of Sanibel) before so when we were invited to go on a friend’s boat around the island we jumped at the chance. There were plenty of sand bars exposed because of the extremely low tide so we anchored out and waded in to a couple of different islands (just glad we made it back).<\/p>\n

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

I was so excited to show Clark my find then witnessed his face turn green with envy. Fifteen minutes later, I heard him howl with laughter. What? What could he have found that could beat this? His own SCOTCH BONNET!<\/p>\n

\"two<\/a>

Clark’s scotch bonnet on the left and mine on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

The same thing happened with the ROSE MUREX yesterday… I was so excited to find an uncommon shell and minutes later, he finds one to match it. We both laughed in amazement.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Florida Cones<\/p><\/div>\n

Clark found the deep orange FLORIDA CONE and I found the other one. Notice the pronounced colorful tips on both of these shells.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Juvenile horse conchs<\/p><\/div>\n

I found me some candies too! Love, love ’em. Always a good day finding a handful of my “candy corn”.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Alphabet cones<\/p><\/div>\n

Ta Da! We even found these ALPHABET CONES.<\/p>\n

\"Lori<\/a>

Lori with horse conch<\/p><\/div>\n

This is our friend Lori\u00a0with a huge empty HORSE CONCH. It’s a beauty!<\/p>\n

\"Shell<\/a>

The shell pile<\/p><\/div>\n

This pile is where I found most of my baby HORSE CONCHS and a FLORIDA CONE, ALPHABET CONE, LACE MUREX and a bunch of TOP SHELLS (I’ll show pictures tomorrow… whew- I’m still tired from that big, long day).<\/p>\n

\"Amy<\/a>

Amy Tripp holding a tulip<\/p><\/div>\n

I was also thrilled to meet photographer and shell enthusiast Amy Tripp from Marco.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Our Marco Boating Gang<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a>

Boating at sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looky what I found!! A gorgeous 2 \u00a01\/4 inch SCOTCH BONNET! Woot! Woot! I’ve only found pieces of these delicate shells before so this was a biggy find for me. Yippee! It was so exciting. Clark and I had never shelled around Marco Island, Florida (about 90 minutes south of Sanibel) before so when we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4354,"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":[35,11,10,36,37,2244,804,2021],"tags":[2064,807,171,806,2065,471,2066,2112,2159,809,230,805,80,808],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-conch","category-cone","category-florida-cone","category-horse-conch","category-kice-island","category-marco-island","category-scotch-bonnet","tag-alphabet-cone","tag-amy-tripp","tag-boating","tag-candy-corn-shells","tag-florida-cone","tag-florida-day-trip","tag-horse-conch","tag-low-tide","tag-marco-island","tag-marco-island-shells","tag-scotch-bonnet","tag-shelling-seashells","tag-shells","tag-snails-rock","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\/2011\/01\/Marco-Alphabet-cones.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-187","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27948,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/27948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}