{"id":5425,"date":"2011-03-18T23:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2011-03-18T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T03:42:53","slug":"full-moon-with-two-low-tides-for-shelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/full-moon-with-two-low-tides-for-shelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon With Two Low Tides For Shelling"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Seashells<\/a>

Seashells by Smitty<\/p><\/div>\n

Smitty told me he found a few good shells like an ALPHABET CONE and then he said “I found a few CANDIES too”. It stopped me in my path. Did you say “Candies”? He sure did! He and his wife Marcia hang out with us here at iLoveShelling!<\/p>\n

\"Full<\/a>

Smitty (GA) and his shells<\/p><\/div>\n

Smitty and Marcia (sorry I missed you, Marcia!) have been visiting Sanibel to shell for 23 years and plan their trips around the moon and tides. He chose this week for not only the full moon but because there are also two low tides per day for optimal shelling. Notice in the photo above, the moon is practically sitting on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

\"Smitty<\/a>

Smitty with shelling scoop <\/p><\/div>\n

I had to show you this photo too because he uses the Seashell Sifter scoop to get his shells which Marcia gave him for his birthday. He told me a gal asked him “Is your name Clark?”. That was Barbara whom I met a little while earlier this evening and she thought he was Clark because she recognized the blue scoop that she sees Clark using in some of the blog pictures. Small world!<\/p>\n

\"Shellers<\/a>

Ray and Barbara (NJ)<\/p><\/div>\n

Barbara and Ray did end up finding the right Clark (they hang out with us here at iLS too!) and they also found lots of good shells to brag about. I have to admit that I think that Barbara is the one that found the FLORIDA CONE but it ended up in Ray’s hand. hmmmm. ;) As he told Clark “Possession is nine tenths of the law”. HA! They sound like us….just a little competitive, huh?<\/p>\n

\"Hands<\/a>

Ray's (left) and Barbara's hand full of seashells<\/p><\/div>\n

After I took this photo, she found an ALPHABET CONE too…. Nice!<\/p>\n

\"Alphabet<\/a>

Alphabet cone with minis<\/p><\/div>\n

Clark found most of these shells (below) in the water although I added the OPERCULUM, the BLACK JINGLES, CHANNELED DUCK CLAMS (which I call Sailor’s Ears, do you?), the little candy TRUE TULIP and the “CANDY” (little orange HORSE CONCH).<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our seashells<\/p><\/div>\n

Can you identifiy the rest of them? If not, go to the\u00a0SEASHELL IDENTIFICATION<\/a><\/strong> page to help. I do have to show you another TURKEY WING Clark found too. We mostly find these shells pretty beat up but this one is a beauty.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a>

Clark's Turkey Wing<\/p><\/div>\n

Look how small this TRUE TULIP is and it has a little white tip like the candies.<\/p>\n

\"candy<\/a>

Candy true tulip<\/p><\/div>\n

\"live<\/a>

Live olive shell<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Whelk<\/a>

Lightning Whelk egg chain in surf<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seashell<\/a>

Seashell seeker Clark<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Moon<\/a>

Sanibel Moon at sunset<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smitty told me he found a few good shells like an ALPHABET CONE and then he said “I found a few CANDIES too”. It stopped me in my path. Did you say “Candies”? He sure did! He and his wife Marcia hang out with us here at iLoveShelling! Smitty and Marcia (sorry I missed you, […]<\/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":[35,984,36,1977,8,928],"tags":[2176,985,986,988,771,793,987,989],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-channeled-duck-clam","category-florida-cone","category-olive","category-sanibel","category-turkey-wing","tag-channeled-duck-clam","tag-full-moon-shelling","tag-low-tide-seashells","tag-sailors-ear-seashell","tag-sanibel-tides","tag-seashell-identification","tag-shelling-low-tide","tag-turkey-wing-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-1pv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}