{"id":5391,"date":"2011-03-15T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2011-03-15T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:08:52","slug":"miniature-seashell-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/miniature-seashell-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Seashell Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Miniature<\/a>

Top row- Pear whelk, Drill, Dwarf olive, Bubble (above), Keyhole Limpet, Tusk, Wentletrap. Bottom row- Auger, Coquina, Murex, Fighting conch<\/p><\/div>\n

Shelling is just like life…. look beyond the obvious and you will find something beautiful and extraordinary.\u00a0I always feel a calmness come over me when I search for the mini shells. When I begin to focus on all the different wash lines of the beach, I feel myself zone everything else out.<\/p>\n

\"Wentletrap<\/a>

Wentletrap in tidal pool<\/p><\/div>\n

One weedy wash line leads me to another line of sticks, broken shells and what looks like mulch. See that little WENTLETRAP among all that “mulch”? I tried to keep that bubbly foam in the photo so you could tell how it was in about 2 inches of water.<\/p>\n

\"water<\/a>

Tidal pools at sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

I come out of the shelling zone every once in a while to soak in how beautiful this time of day is here on the beach at the lighthouse. Calming.<\/p>\n

\"Tusk<\/a>

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

Then I go into the shelling zone again and remember to look for TUSK shells too. Can you even spot the TUSK shell?<\/p>\n

\"Tusk<\/a>

Tusk shell on my finger<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t actually mean to focus on the sand instead of my \u00a0finger but I’m kinda glad you got to see how big (or I should say how “little”) the TUSK shell is AND to see what the area looked like where I found it.<\/p>\n

\"Sanibel<\/a>

Sanibel lighthouse miniature shells<\/p><\/div>\n

These are some of the same shells as the first picture but there’s also a\u00a0CANTHARUS<\/a><\/strong> (top left with barnacles on it), 2 KITTENS PAWS, BARNACLES, a BABY’S EAR (broken), a TURBAN and 2 CROSS BARRED VENUS clams.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes the treasures we take from the beach are the friends we meet there~” <\/em>quote by Carla Barone…<\/p>\n

\"Sheller<\/a>

Gerry (New Hampshire) with a sea whip<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Collecting<\/a>

Chris (IL) collecting minis<\/p><\/div>\n

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

\"beach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelling is just like life…. look beyond the obvious and you will find something beautiful and extraordinary.\u00a0I always feel a calmness come over me when I search for the mini shells. When I begin to focus on all the different wash lines of the beach, I feel myself zone everything else out. One weedy wash […]<\/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":[838,45,233,979,46,107,55,18,8,2008],"tags":[360,2100,2163,941,982,2089,842,980,2082,981,901],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cantharus","category-coquina","category-drill","category-dwarf-olive-olive","category-fighting-conch","category-keyhole-limpet","category-kittens-paw","category-murex","category-sanibel","category-wentletrap","tag-auger","tag-bubble-shell","tag-cantharus","tag-dwarf-olive","tag-juvenile-fighting-conch","tag-keyhole-limpet","tag-miniature-shells","tag-sanibel-beach","tag-seashells","tag-shell-collectors","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-1oX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}