{"id":7654,"date":"2011-09-05T23:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2012-04-28T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T17:10:30","slug":"lovely-labor-day-weekend-looking-for-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/lovely-labor-day-weekend-looking-for-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Labor Day Weekend Looking For Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We didn’t see huge shell piles on the beaches of Sanibel this Labor Day weekend but the few shells we found off West Gulf Drive beach access #6<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0were pretty spectacular… like this gigantaur ALPHABET CONE! It’s a whopping 3 inches long and completely in tact without lots of pitting (we usually find the cones “pitted” if they are this big). It’s the biggest CONE we’ve ever found.<\/p>\n

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A bright orange HORSE CONCH looked like he was burying his head in the shells…<\/p>\n

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Nobody was home! So he’s a keeper…<\/p>\n

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I \u00a0spotted Miss Aqua way down the beach and knew I had to talk to her. Love her choice of color!<\/p>\n

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As I got closer she picked up something on the beach and got very excited. It was a beautiful double JEWELBOX…<\/p>\n

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We wanted to check out Blind Pass again so we checked the Sanibel side first. I thought this was the cutest couple holding hands while shelling…<\/p>\n

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I got a little closer and saw she had on an\u00a0iLoveShelling lighted cap<\/a><\/strong>! She introduced herself as Barbara, the one that won the cap in the iLoveShelling GiveAway<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in June. So nice to meet you Barbara and Ted. So cool to meet a winner!<\/p>\n

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we walked the bridge to the Captiva side. As we looked in the water at our bird’s eye view from the bridge, we saw what looked like some good shells mixed in with PEN SHELLS. We called down to the two shellers in the water.<\/p>\n

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We directed William to a shell… “Go straight. Now look about one o’clock. Okay bend down. Right there!” LOL It was a nice size WHELK but there was somebody home so he had to go back but it was so much fun- I felt like we were playing “Mother May I” or “You’re Geting Warmer” haha<\/p>\n

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\u00a0…a lovely weekend<\/p>\n

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We didn’t see huge shell piles on the beaches of Sanibel this Labor Day weekend but the few shells we found off West Gulf Drive beach access #6 \u00a0were pretty spectacular… like this gigantaur ALPHABET CONE! It’s a whopping 3 inches long and completely in tact without lots of pitting (we usually find the cones […]<\/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":[35,10,1643,37,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-cone","category-florida-spiny-jewelbox","category-horse-conch","category-jewel-box","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\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}