{"id":6284,"date":"2011-05-18T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T17:53:37","slug":"sanibel-seashell-egg-casings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/sanibel-seashell-egg-casings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel Seashell Egg Casings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It makes me so happy when Sanibel low tides are in the evenings. It’s my favorite time of day to walk the beach so low tide is such a bonus.<\/p>\n

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

Finding this ALPHABET CONE was a double bonus! I found it\u00a0right before dusk\u00a0on the ledge of this little tidal pool near Donax Street<\/a><\/strong> beach access….<\/p>\n

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

There were lots of PEN SHELLS, COCKLES, DOSINIAS and live seashells.<\/p>\n

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

I met a first time sheller with all of these (unknowingly) live STARFISH in her bucket. She couldn’t believe she they were still alive since they felt stiff but was very happy to now know to put all SEA STARS back unless they are completely dry. We put them back in the water where they did a little happy dance and started crawling away.<\/p>\n

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

There were so many EGG CASINGS strung all along the shore line.<\/p>\n

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

Here’s a HORSE CONCH EGG CASING…<\/p>\n

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

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

This is a WHELK EGG CASING…<\/p>\n

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

I even found a SKATE EGG CASE….<\/p>\n

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

An ANGEL WING! Clark found it completely in tact floating in the surf.<\/p>\n

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

Jim (MO) found an old, pitted LIGHTNING WHELK full of character.<\/p>\n

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

Sharon (GA) was collecting sea debris of SPONGES, a CRAB SHELL and a SEA URCHIN but she didn’t have a shell bag. She only had her aqua blue flip flops to carry them on. The perfect back drop!<\/p>\n

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

Talk about a perfect back drop….. My Shelling Sistahs Linda, Anna and Jean in their cute tees with the full moon! This was monday night at the lighthouse where we were still finding lots of minis but not many bigger shells.<\/p>\n

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

I was mesmerized by shellcrafter Jean’s orange bucket swinging against the reflection in the sand of the blue and pink splashed sky.<\/p>\n

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

We went to the lighthouse again tonight but I haven’t loaded my photos yet but I gotta tell you, we found some nice shells. Double SUNRAY VENUS CLAMS, PAPER FIGS, CONCHS and much more…. photos and a video to come!<\/p>\n

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It makes me so happy when Sanibel low tides are in the evenings. It’s my favorite time of day to walk the beach so low tide is such a bonus. Finding this ALPHABET CONE was a double bonus! I found it\u00a0right before dusk\u00a0on the ledge of this little tidal pool near Donax Street beach access…. […]<\/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":[35,10,1126,8,27,2036,174],"tags":[1121,206,1114,771,1115,1117,1116,1118,992,1119,1120],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-cone","category-horse-conch-egg-casing","category-sanibel","category-starfish-sea-star","category-skate-egg-case","category-whelk-egg-casing","tag-collect-shells","tag-full-moon","tag-moon-phase","tag-sanibel-tides","tag-sanibel-weather","tag-seashell-categories","tag-shelling-tips","tag-the-art-of-shelling","tag-tide-chart","tag-west-winds","tag-where-to-find-seashells","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-1Dm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}