{"id":6604,"date":"2011-06-13T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:09:42","slug":"saving-sanibel-nudibranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/saving-sanibel-nudibranch\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping A Sanibel Nudibranch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The weekend started off a little slow for finding shells since the wind was coming in from the east. On Friday evening, we checked out the lighthouse beach and the first thing I saw was a SEA HARE (or also called a NUDIBRANCH) washed up on the beach caught in a line of sea grass. So I picked he\/she (literally because they are hermaphrodites) up since I thought it was still alive to put it back in the water and held it for a few minutes submerged. It started to move its wings so I released and it swam away. Yippee!<\/p>\n

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

I met a family on the beach…. they asked me “Where should we go to find some shells?”. They didn’t know what they were in for, did they? LOL They had no idea that Clark and I could talk for hours about shells. heehee<\/p>\n

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

We had a nice time talking to\u00a0Venkataratnam and Hansaveni from New Jersey along with her parents Pavani and Anupam who\u00a0were visiting Sanibel for the first time\u00a0…. from India! The shelling wasn’t fantastic since it was high tide and those darn east winds but we were happy to help them find a few WENTLTRAPS, a nice NUTMEG, SHARK’S EYE, 2 TURBANS, a LIMPET and a few more goodies.<\/p>\n

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

I saw a bird on the beach that I normally don’t see so I sent \u00a0my friend Bonnie this photo and she said, “That is a Black-crowned Night-Heron. He is a large-headed heron that rarely extends it’s neck. You usually see them at the water’s edge crouched down waiting quietly for a fish to go by. You got his picture with his neck extended so he was probably very aware of you or about to fly off<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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

The winds changed a little from the west \u00a0so shelling was much better at Blind Pass this weekend but I still haven’t gotten those photos into my computer so I will post again ASAP. In the mean time, the shelling should be really good on the sand bars at Blind Pass this afternoon at a negative low tide of -0.4 around 5:30 pm.<\/p>\n

\"Black-Crowned<\/a><\/p>\n

Only another day to enter into the drawing for some iLoveShelling gear! I am loooving all of your comments!<\/p>\n

\"iLoveShelling<\/a>

iLoveShelling GiveAway<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weekend started off a little slow for finding shells since the wind was coming in from the east. On Friday evening, we checked out the lighthouse beach and the first thing I saw was a SEA HARE (or also called a NUDIBRANCH) washed up on the beach caught in a line of sea grass. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1174,2000,8,2023],"tags":[1176,1175,189,2050,280],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-crowned-night-heron","category-nudibranch","category-sanibel","category-sea-hare","tag-black-crowned-night-heron-2","tag-india-to-sanibel","tag-nudibranch","tag-sanibel","tag-sea-hare","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","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=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}