{"id":680,"date":"2010-01-23T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2011-09-29T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:20:52","slug":"gulf-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/gulf-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Live Alphabet Cone<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nick (Sanibel) with a live Alphabet Cone<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve only seen one other live CONE but I didn’t have my camera with me so this was so cool to capture. Nick was being very careful to handle this live ALPHABET CONE since they are poisonous and have dart-like teeth that can inflict painful wounds. Yikes! Some CONES from Australia have been known to be fatal, so be careful! (See UPDATE below)<\/p>\n

I found out that Nick has been coming to Sanibel for around 40 years, has lived here for 15 years and is a major sheller. Get this…..he has found 25 JUNONIAS! WOW! Yes, I called him a “brat” (heehee)….but it was only out of jealousy.<\/p>\n

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Leopard Crab shell, Purple Sea Urchin, Fig and Sponge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kristy<\/a>

Kristy (Peoria, Illinois) with a Sponge and a Starfish<\/p><\/div>\n

Kristy is a wildlife park naturalist in Illinois who is visiting Sanibel for 7 weeks “because it’s all about the wildlife here in Sanibel”.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 8-4-10: It is now thought that the cone shell is not poisonous in the Florida area… please read the comment from MurexKen on this post \u00a0 http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/the-gulf-is-alive-and-well\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve only seen one other live CONE but I didn’t have my camera with me so this was so cool to capture. Nick was being very careful to handle this live ALPHABET CONE since they are poisonous and have dart-like teeth that can inflict painful wounds. Yikes! Some CONES from Australia have been known to […]<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10,100,14,101,29,1978,1398,8,27,49],"tags":[2064,2050,30,2082,71,80,66],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-cone","category-crabs","category-junonia","category-leopard","category-lighthouse","category-paper-fig","category-purple-sea-urchin","category-sanibel","category-starfish-sea-star","category-urchin","tag-alphabet-cone","tag-sanibel","tag-sanibel-lighthouse","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-southwest-florida","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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}