{"id":8904,"date":"2011-12-11T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2012-06-24T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T16:31:34","slug":"another-first-junonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/another-first-junonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Another First Junonia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0Donnie Benton found his first JUNONIA! He sooooo deserves it. He was at the lighthouse beach at 4 a.m. at low tide \u00a0searching for ALPHABET CONES (his faves) when he saw those beautiful spots half buried in the sand.\u00a0Congrats Donnie! I know it’s such a high.<\/p>\n

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I first heard of Donnie when his 5 year old daughter Alyssa<\/a><\/strong> found a JUNONIA and a SCOTCH BONNET within a few months of each other. I met Donnie<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Ft Myers) in September and quickly realized that he was …. well…. he is obsessed about shelling. ;) I showed you some of his finds<\/a><\/strong> last week from Blind Pass while I was at the golf cart parade. They were good but now he has the golden treasure.<\/p>\n

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He was the first one on the beach for the low, low tides (negative .5) on Friday and Saturday and these are just some of the shells he found. He even picks up trash (the sunglasses and goggles)…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Here’s another shot of the Big J, some of his ALPHIES and a few more…<\/p>\n

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We were on the beach at sunrise when we saw Donnie and found some goodies too but this was the coolest. It’s a live PAPER FIG with the mollusk wrapped around its shell.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I couldn’t help but pick it up to look at the other side…Wow!<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Oops! I forgot to show you this! Some of you noticed the odd round “thingie” in the photo above of Donnie’s haul. We think it’s a vertebrae from some very large animal\/fish\/mammal. Whatever it is, it’s very cool.<\/p>\n

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

Congrats again Donnie!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Donnie Benton found his first JUNONIA! He sooooo deserves it. He was at the lighthouse beach at 4 a.m. at low tide \u00a0searching for ALPHABET CONES (his faves) when he saw those beautiful spots half buried in the sand.\u00a0Congrats Donnie! I know it’s such a high. I first heard of Donnie when his 5 year […]<\/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":[1481,14,1488,1978,8],"tags":[2054,1490,1489,1491],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bones","category-junonia","category-live-atlantic-fig","category-paper-fig","category-sanibel","tag-junonia","tag-live-fig-shell","tag-sanibel-island-seashells","tag-where-to-find-a-junonia","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-2jC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8919,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}