{"id":5651,"date":"2011-04-03T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2011-09-06T17:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:42:26","slug":"smiles-for-seashells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/smiles-for-seashells\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiles For Seashells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is shelling heaven. I’m sure you understand why Clare and Robin have such great smiles on their faces as they sift through scoops of shells Clare just brought back from the water.<\/p>\n

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Those are WENTLETRAPS they are finding!<\/p>\n

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

I felt so lucky all weekend to be able to sift through such a wide wrack of shells and talk to so many happy successful shellers at the lighthouse beach on Sanibel.<\/p>\n

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

This is a day’s shell collection that any sheller would smile about. It’s like the top ten shells of Sanibel, isn’t it? I saw Connie again (from March 30 post<\/a><\/strong>) with a FIGHTING CONCH,\u00a0PAPER FIG, TRUE TULIP,\u00a0HORSE CONCH, FLORIDA CONE,\u00a0ALPHABET CONES, LIGHTNING WHELK, a little tiny KING’S CROWN, and a PEAR WHELK on her shelling screen (oh yeah, and a PONDEROUS ARK but not sure I would call that a top ten shell- haha).<\/p>\n

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Connie with her top ten.<\/p>\n

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

Rachael (Denver) found a FLORIDA CONE and two minutes later, she and her Aunt Joan scooped up all of these shells from the surf…<\/p>\n

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All of these shells in just two scoops!<\/p>\n

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Rachael and her Aunt Joan (Rachael’s mom’s twin sister!) smiling big.<\/p>\n

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

This weekend you could find big shells but Hudson (St Pete, FL) had keen eyes to find beautiful minis too. This is a gorgeous COFFEE MELAMPUS.<\/p>\n

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

Happy Hudson!<\/p>\n

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

Hudson’s little sister Ilene filled up her bucket with COCKLES and DOSINIAS. She even saved a STARFISH by putting it back in the water.<\/p>\n

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

This guy is a malacologist<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>in the making if you ask me. When I started talking to Mitchel (MI), he told me he was a scientific shell collector. I watched him scoop up a few good scoops of shells out of the water to take back to the sand to sift through them. Every time he’d dump the shells out, he’d draw a crowd of people to see what he found….. most of them were girls. Smart guy.<\/p>\n

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

Nice Conus spurius\u00a0(ALPHABET CONE), Dr M.<\/p>\n

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

There were so many different things \u00a0like this HORSE CONCH EGG CASE with a PEN SHELL washing up on the beach that I could talk about it for days….. and I think will. I’ll have to show the rest of my photos tomorrow since I’ve run out of time. I have so many more good ones …. like this<\/p>\n

SEA ANEMONE flower…..<\/p>\n

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This is shelling heaven. I’m sure you understand why Clare and Robin have such great smiles on their faces as they sift through scoops of shells Clare just brought back from the water. Those are WENTLETRAPS they are finding! I felt so lucky all weekend to be able to sift through such a wide wrack […]<\/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":[1126,527,8,2026],"tags":[1032,1031,1033,1030,2110],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-conch-egg-casing","category-melampus","category-sanibel","category-sea-anemone","tag-malacologist","tag-scientific-name-for-alphabet-cone","tag-sea-anemone-flower","tag-top-ten-shells-of-sanibel","tag-tulip-egg-case","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-1t9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","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=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}