{"id":6626,"date":"2011-06-15T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2011-09-06T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:18:21","slug":"sunsets-seashells-and-shelling-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/sunsets-seashells-and-shelling-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsets, Seashells and Shelling Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sanibel shelling at sunset\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-shelling-at-sunset1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6678 aligncenter\" title=\"Sanibel shelling at sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-shelling-at-sunset1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanibel shelling at sunset\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-shelling-at-sunset1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-shelling-at-sunset1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The week started out with beautiful sunset skies at the lighthouse beach with some serene Sanibel Stooping&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sanibel stoop aqua\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-stoop-aqua1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6677 aligncenter\" title=\"Sanibel stoop aqua\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-stoop-aqua1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanibel stoop aqua\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-stoop-aqua1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-stoop-aqua1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Tiny shell finds&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6628\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Girl with sharp ribbed drill shell\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Girl-with-drill-shell.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6628\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6628 \" title=\"Girl with drill shell\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Girl-with-drill-shell-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Girl with drill shell\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Girl-with-drill-shell-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Girl-with-drill-shell.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avery with a Sharp Ribbed Drill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beautiful families with some Shelling Sistahs! &#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6629\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Family on Sanibel lighthouse beach\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Family-on-Sanibel-lighthouse-beach.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6629\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6629 \" title=\"Family on Sanibel lighthouse beach\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Family-on-Sanibel-lighthouse-beach-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Family on Sanibel lighthouse beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Family-on-Sanibel-lighthouse-beach-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Family-on-Sanibel-lighthouse-beach.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avery, Caroline, Jim, McKenzie and Amy (Orlando)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Live critters&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Hermit crab fights from conch\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hermit-crab-fights-from-conch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6639 aligncenter\" title=\"Hermit crab fights from conch\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hermit-crab-fights-from-conch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hermit crab fights from conch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hermit-crab-fights-from-conch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hermit-crab-fights-from-conch.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few keeper shells like this double JEWEL BOX Super Sheller Clark found&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Double Jewel Box\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Double-Jewel-Box.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6643 aligncenter\" title=\"Double Jewel Box\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Double-Jewel-Box-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Double Jewel Box\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Double-Jewel-Box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Double-Jewel-Box.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then I moved on to Middle Gulf Drive beaches to find more Shelling Sistahs! Weehoo!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6661\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Sanibel Shelling Sistahs\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-sistahs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6661\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6661 \" title=\"Sanibel Shelling Sistahs\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-sistahs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanibel Shelling Sistahs\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-sistahs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-sistahs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet, Pam, Betty Jo<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But Blind Pass has been the place to find the best finds of the week! Look who I saw again from the lighthouse beach but this time at Blind Pass finding KING&#8217;S CROWNS. McKenzie!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"McKenzie Kings crowns\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McKenzie-Kings-crowns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6667 aligncenter\" title=\"McKenzie Kings crowns\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McKenzie-Kings-crowns-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"McKenzie Kings crowns\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McKenzie-Kings-crowns-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McKenzie-Kings-crowns.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And her sister Avery was lucky enough to find a JUNONIA! Even part of one is lucky, I think. Great find Avery!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Mostly Junonia \" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mostly-junonia-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6660 aligncenter\" title=\"mostly junonia\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mostly-junonia--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"mostly junonia\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mostly-junonia--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mostly-junonia-.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My buddies Susie and Ellen joined me at Blind Pass to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sooz Ellen with shells\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sooz-Ellen-with-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6666 aligncenter\" title=\"Sooz Ellen with shells\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sooz-Ellen-with-shells-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sooz Ellen with shells\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sooz-Ellen-with-shells-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sooz-Ellen-with-shells.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They found FIGHTING CONCHS, a PEAR WHELK \u00a0and a few more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Susie's shells\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Susies-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6665 aligncenter\" title=\"Susie's shells\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Susies-shells-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Susie's shells\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Susies-shells-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Susies-shells.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marie from Charleston was purrrrrrfectly satisfied with lots of kitten paws&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Marie kittens paws\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marie-kittens-paws-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6663 aligncenter\" title=\"Marie kittens paws\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marie-kittens-paws--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Marie kittens paws\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marie-kittens-paws--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Marie-kittens-paws-.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shelling is so much fun right now because the tide is so far out you can walk on sand bars that are not normally showin&#8230;.. especially at Blind Pass.\u00a0On my last post\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Negative Low Tides, Positive Winners!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/negative-low-tides-positive-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Negative Low Tides, Positive Winners!<\/a> <\/strong>, I didn&#8217;t really explain what a negative low tide chart looks like so I&#8217;ve added the chart for today and tomorrow. To get more information on the tides for future dates for Captiva, Sanibel and Cayo Costa, go to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/tides\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIDES<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Captiva Low Tide Chart\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Captiva-low-tide-chart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6668  aligncenter\" title=\"Captiva low tide chart\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Captiva-low-tide-chart-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"Captiva low tide chart\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Captiva-low-tide-chart-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Captiva-low-tide-chart.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sanibel Ibis at dusk\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-Ibis-at-dusk1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6676 aligncenter\" title=\"Sanibel Ibis at dusk\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-Ibis-at-dusk1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sanibel Ibis at dusk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-Ibis-at-dusk1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Sanibel-Ibis-at-dusk1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sanibel Sunset Girls\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sunset-girls1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6675 aligncenter\" title=\"sunset girls\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sunset-girls1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"sunset girls\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sunset-girls1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sunset-girls1.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"lightouse pier sunset\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightouse-pier-sunset1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6674 aligncenter\" title=\"lightouse pier sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightouse-pier-sunset1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lightouse pier sunset\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightouse-pier-sunset1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightouse-pier-sunset1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week started out with beautiful sunset skies at the lighthouse beach with some serene Sanibel Stooping&#8230;.. Tiny shell finds&#8230;. Beautiful families with some Shelling Sistahs! &#8230;. Live critters&#8230;. A few keeper shells like this double JEWEL BOX Super Sheller Clark found&#8230;. Then I moved on to Middle Gulf Drive beaches to find more Shelling [&hellip;]<\/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":[480,14,13,254,8,449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermit-crabs","category-junonia","category-kings-crown","category-low-tide","category-sanibel","category-sunsets","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\/6626","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=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}