{"id":4903,"date":"2011-02-20T23:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2018-10-06T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T01:46:41","slug":"shelling-marco-sand-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/shelling-marco-sand-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelling Marco Sand Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lightning<\/a>

Lightning whelk<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m still exhausted from boating yesterday. Clark, friend Mary Jo and I “adventured” to take our boat down to the sand bars off Marco to do some shelling. The gulf was calm and flat for our hour and a half boat ride down (if only it had stayed that way). We pulled up to our first sand bar where I found this beautiful LIGHTING WHELK.<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Marco sand bar<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a nice shell wrack that looked very picked over but there were too many SUNRAY VENUS CLAMS to count. They are always so pretty when they are together.<\/p>\n

\"Sunray<\/a>

Sunray venus clams<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I thought I hit the jack pot….<\/p>\n

\"Junonia<\/a>

Junonia piece<\/p><\/div>\n

Only half of a JUNONIA but it was still fun to find it. Maybe I’ll make a necklace like Kathy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"junonia<\/a>

Half of a junonia<\/p><\/div>\n

I found a very nice size MOON SNAIL or NATICA which Mary Jo calls them.<\/p>\n

\"Moon<\/a>

Marco Moon snail<\/p><\/div>\n

Mary Jo found a TUSK SHELL<\/a><\/strong> which is very tiny so you can see it would blend in with just about everything in the sand. I’ve only ever found one … I don’t have any eye for them yet.<\/p>\n

\"Tusk<\/a>

Tusk shell<\/p><\/div>\n

I found just one WENTLETRAP in what looks like coffee ground camo. There were a few RICE OLIVES in there too…. but wait! I just looked closer at this photo and there is a TUSK SHELL in this photo I didn’t even see.<\/p>\n

\"wentletrap<\/a>

wentletrap in sand<\/p><\/div>\n

My best find of the day was this very different FLORIDA CONE. Look at the colors and stripes- wow!<\/p>\n

\"Florida<\/a>

Florida Cone marco<\/p><\/div>\n

I met Ron from Marco\u00a0and he said he boats the islands\u00a0to fish but if the fish aren’t biting, he shells.<\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/a>

Ron (Marco)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marco<\/a>

Mary Jo shelling<\/p><\/div>\n

I won’t even tell you how many times we almost got stuck on the shallow flats. It’s not easy boating down there if you don’t know the waters (which we don’t). Then the boat ride back was 2 and a half hours back to the dock ….. \u00a0the gulf was very choppy which makes the ride very intense (ugh). It was a beautiful day in Marco but I’m sure glad to be back on Sanibel. To be able to walk out on the beach to find incredible shells by the handful…. priceless.<\/p>\n

\"Leopard<\/a>

Leopard Crab shell<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mary<\/a>

Mary Jo and Clark in Marco<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still exhausted from boating yesterday. Clark, friend Mary Jo and I “adventured” to take our boat down to the sand bars off Marco to do some shelling. The gulf was calm and flat for our hour and a half boat ride down (if only it had stayed that way). We pulled up to our […]<\/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":[100,36,1381,101,38,804,2245,48,2044,2008,2007],"tags":[279,2065,182,187,2159,2082,71,80,902,901],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crabs","category-florida-cone","category-colorful-moon-shell","category-leopard","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-marco-island","category-second-chance-island","category-sunray-venus","category-tusk-shell","category-wentletrap","category-whelk","tag-colorful-moon-snail","tag-florida-cone","tag-leopard-crab","tag-lightning-whelk","tag-marco-island","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-sunray-venus-clam","tag-tusk-shell","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-1h5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","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=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27942,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/27942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}