{"id":7100,"date":"2011-08-01T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2011-08-31T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T20:31:44","slug":"mud-piddocks-to-dragonflies-and-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/mud-piddocks-to-dragonflies-and-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Piddocks To Dragonflies And Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Atlantic<\/a>

Atlantic Mud Piddock<\/p><\/div>\n

We used to find lots of ATLANTIC MUD PIDDOCKS on the flats of North Captiva and Cayo Costa when we boated there regularly but rarely on Sanibel. That’s why I was tickled to find one on the Sanibel Lighthouse beach this weekend. They can get up to 2.75 inches but this one is only 1 \u00a01\/2 inches.<\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/a>

Atlantic Mud Piddock Aperture<\/p><\/div>\n

This was is a little broken (on the right tip you can see it’s a little jagged) but I’ve always loved these since they are like a special ANGELWING and in the same family… but with “Spock” ears….. hmmmm. both have that …..”ock” too.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0It was a beautiful evening on the beach with our friends Joe and Manuela.<\/p>\n

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

Those cute little Zippy Minis<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(remember the video? ha!) with the HERMIT CRABS were in full force so they were mesmerized by them…..<\/p>\n

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

Joe is not only a really good friend of Clark’s, he’s Clark’s business partner at Rambo & Ginsberg Realty<\/a><\/strong> so he has to hear about all those “schmanonia<\/a><\/strong>” stories (albeit well deserved stories… I guess) as much as we do. I still sound bitter<\/del>\u00a0very envious, don’t I. heehee<\/p>\n

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

They found a few minis like WENTLETRAPS, a MELAMPUS, a wormie, SLIPPER SHELLS, CERITHS, AUGERS, WHELKS and a CONCH. I gave Manuela the APPLE MUREX and the OPERCULUM (which I had to explain that it was the “door” to a WHELK) and they ended up keeping the MUREX but they weren’t too thrilled about the OPERCULUM so gave it back to me. They looked at me like “Why the heck would we want to keep that?” I guess I like the weird stuff too:)<\/p>\n

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

Right before we were leaving the beach, we saw a small part of a rainbow…..<\/p>\n

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

This was followed by hundreds upon hundreds of dragonflies. If you can’t see them, click on the picture to enlarge it, then I hope you can see how many there were. Go, dragonflies! Eat those skeeters!<\/p>\n

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

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We used to find lots of ATLANTIC MUD PIDDOCKS on the flats of North Captiva and Cayo Costa when we boated there regularly but rarely on Sanibel. That’s why I was tickled to find one on the Sanibel Lighthouse beach this weekend. They can get up to 2.75 inches but this one is only 1 […]<\/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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1280,1355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantic-mud-piddock","category-cerith","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-1Qw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}