{"id":4993,"date":"2011-02-23T22:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2018-10-06T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:15:03","slug":"a-barefoot-beach-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/a-barefoot-beach-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Barefoot Beach Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Coral<\/a>

Coral from Barefoot Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been wanting to run down to Barefoot Beach in Bonita Springs (45 minute drive) to meet shelling sister Carla Barone for quite some time. Today I got to meet her and she was everything I thought… shell crazy and sweet as pie. As soon as we hit the beach, I found all of these pieces of CORAL as we walked south to get down to the jetty at Wiggins Pass.<\/p>\n

\"Pufferfish<\/a>

Fossils found by Carla<\/p><\/div>\n

Carla loves looking for not only shells but fossils and different beach treasures. She picked up these pieces then told me the fossils in her hand clockwise from top left…. a SHARK’S TOOTH, a piece of turtle shell called a “SKOOT”, and …okay… are you ready for this one? … the mouth plate of a PUFFER FISH. Wow. I’d like you to meet Carla…<\/p>\n

\"Pam<\/a>

Me with super collector Carla<\/p><\/div>\n

She loves to talk to everyone on the beach about all the fun things to collect.<\/p>\n

\"Carla<\/a>

Carla showing fossils to Kathy and her friend<\/p><\/div>\n

We found out that Kathy was a first time sheller and she found this…<\/p>\n

\"Kathy<\/a>

Kathy with alphabet cone<\/p><\/div>\n

A perfect ALPHABET CONE! I saw the colors through her shell bag and commented on her find but she didn’t know what I was talking about. She didn’t realize what she had… until now. Then we ran into \u00a0Carla’s good friend Jen who taught her about most of the fossils she has found.<\/p>\n

\"Fossil<\/a>

Fossil collector Jen<\/p><\/div>\n

Today she was collecting as sorts of shells and goodies.<\/p>\n

\"Jen's<\/a>

Jen’s shell bag<\/p><\/div>\n

Another one of Carla’s friends (she’s very popular on this beach!) Ella found this awesome SHARK’S EYE. What a cutie!<\/p>\n

\"Ella<\/a>

Ella with sharks eye<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I found this huge WORM SHELL. I still can’t believe how big it is.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a>

Wormie!<\/p><\/div>\n

And some grand wormies…<\/p>\n

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

On the way back, we saw several ssslloooooww GOPHER TORTOISES.<\/p>\n

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

So this is where Carla finds a lot of her shells.<\/p>\n

\"Barefoot<\/a>

Barefoot Beach entrance sign<\/p><\/div>\n

So she can make beautiful whelk sculptures like this…<\/p>\n

\"Whelk<\/a>

Whelk Sculpture by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks for everything, Carla. It was a great shelling morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to run down to Barefoot Beach in Bonita Springs (45 minute drive) to meet shelling sister Carla Barone for quite some time. Today I got to meet her and she was everything I thought… shell crazy and sweet as pie. As soon as we hit the beach, I found all of these […]<\/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":[35,276,10,1988,2039,910,911,8,139,161,68,912,2006],"tags":[2064,913,914,468,917,916,2173,918,785,915,39],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-bonita-beach","category-cone","category-coral","category-decorate-with-shells","category-fossil","category-puffer-fish-mouth-plate","category-sanibel","category-seashell-decor","category-sharks-eye","category-sharks-teeth","category-turtle-skoot","category-worm-shell","tag-alphabet-cone","tag-barefoot-beach","tag-bonita","tag-florida","tag-gopher-tortoise","tag-gulf-coast-coral","tag-puffer-fish-mouth-plate","tag-seashell-sculpture","tag-sharks-tooth","tag-turtle-shell-skoot","tag-worm-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-1ix","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","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=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27912,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}