{"id":8764,"date":"2011-11-29T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:15:09","slug":"cockles-conchs-and-quahogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/cockles-conchs-and-quahogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockles, Conchs and Quahogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

After several weeks of east winds, the west winds have finally arrived to drive some shells on to our beaches. Today was only the first day of the westies but since it was a really low tide this morning, I figured I’d find some goodies. It’s always a good day when you find an ALPHABET CONE and you’ve got to see just how darn cute this little juvie HORSE CONCH is…<\/p>\n

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

I couldn’t believe I found this ANGEL WING sitting in the high wrack line…<\/p>\n

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I love when I find shells like this BANDED TULIP lying on the beach like this.<\/p>\n

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Tonya, Beth and Max from Ohio had their bags filled with all sorts of treasures.<\/p>\n

\"tonya,<\/a><\/p>\n

Wanna look in their shell bags? I sure wanted to too! COCKLES and CONCHS and CLAMS…<\/p>\n

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Max found this live LIGHTNING WHELK in the high tide wrack line so he walked it down to the water and gently put it in the water. Good for you Max! You helped save this beauty.<\/p>\n

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I found local Sanibel sheller Lynn walking her very happy standard poodle Alexander with a pocket full of seashell treasure too.<\/p>\n

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

Look at those pretty those COLORFUL MOON shells along with those candies and a mini TURE TULIP.<\/p>\n

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

There was all sorts of bivalves scattered along the beach. I found this ATLANTIC COCKLE, PONDEROUS ARK and SOUTHERN QUAHOG together on the beach just like this…<\/p>\n

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

This is the biggest DARK CERITH I’ve ever found. It’s one and a half inches long!<\/p>\n

\"1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I was pretty pleased with what we all were finding on the beach near Donax Street today after the first day of west winds. Tomorrow might be even better!<\/p>\n

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After several weeks of east winds, the west winds have finally arrived to drive some shells on to our beaches. Today was only the first day of the westies but since it was a really low tide this morning, I figured I’d find some goodies. It’s always a good day when you find an ALPHABET […]<\/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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[35,33,845,571,1357,46,1381,37,38,1979,782,8,2033,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet-cone","category-angel-wing","category-atlantic-giant","category-banded-tulip","category-dark-cerith","category-fighting-conch","category-colorful-moon-shell","category-horse-conch","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-pen-shell","category-ponderous-ark-ark-shell","category-sanibel","category-southern-quahog","category-true-tulip-tulip","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-2hm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}