{"id":8922,"date":"2011-12-12T22:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:07:01","slug":"tam-tam-finds-a-queen-conch-on-sanibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/tam-tam-finds-a-queen-conch-on-sanibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tam Tam Finds A Queen Conch On Sanibel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tammy juvenile queen conch Sanibel Florida\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-juvenile-queen-conch-Sanibel-Florida.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8934 aligncenter\" title=\"Tammy juvenile queen conch Sanibel Florida\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-juvenile-queen-conch-Sanibel-Florida-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy juvenile queen conch Sanibel Florida\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-juvenile-queen-conch-Sanibel-Florida-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-juvenile-queen-conch-Sanibel-Florida.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A juvenile QUEEN CONCH is a very rare find on Sanibel&#8230;. and &#8220;our &#8221; Tammy found one!!! If you&#8217;ve ever read the comments on any of my posts, her name is &#8220;Tam Tam From Michigan&#8221; and I finally got to meet her (in real life person!) this weekend on Sanibel and this was the first thing she showed me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"queen conch juvenile beach washed sanibel\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen-conch-juvenile-beach-washed-sanibel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8925 aligncenter\" title=\"queen conch juvenile beach washed sanibel\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen-conch-juvenile-beach-washed-sanibel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"queen conch juvenile beach washed sanibel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen-conch-juvenile-beach-washed-sanibel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen-conch-juvenile-beach-washed-sanibel.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A juvenile QUEEN CONCH! You can find them in the Bahamas and The Florida Keys but it&#8217;s not often I hear of anybody finding one \u00a0here. I&#8217;m so happy for her!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"juvenile queen conch sanibel aperture\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-sanibel-aperture.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8926 aligncenter\" title=\"juvenile queen conch sanibel aperture\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-sanibel-aperture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile queen conch sanibel aperture\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-sanibel-aperture-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-sanibel-aperture.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Donnie, she might be a little shell crazy too. She looooves shells so much, she even named her daughter Shell. This is Shell sittin &#8216;n siftin on a big pile off West Gulf Drive near Shalimar. Or maybe I should say&#8230; this is Shell shelling&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Shell finding seashells\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shell-finding-seashells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8930 aligncenter\" title=\"Shell finding seashells\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shell-finding-seashells-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shell finding seashells\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shell-finding-seashells-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Shell-finding-seashells.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She told me that &#8220;Tammy&#8221; means &#8220;Palm Tree&#8221; in another language then showed me her new tattoo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tammy tattoo palm tree\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-tattoo-palm-tree.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8927 aligncenter\" title=\"Tammy tattoo palm tree\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-tattoo-palm-tree-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy tattoo palm tree\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-tattoo-palm-tree-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-tattoo-palm-tree.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So of course since her daughter&#8217;s name is Shell and her name means Palm Tree&#8230;so she looves Sanibel and so do her girlfriends! They all love shelling Sanibel. This is Claudette (FL), Shell, Barb (VA),Tam Tam, Karen, Tracy (FL). You&#8217;ve met Claudette and Karen here before <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/05\/huge-sharks-eye-and-horse-conch\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Karen happens to be Tam Tam&#8217;s cousin. The world is getting smaller, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0How cute are they with their i Love Shelling tee!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"i Love Shelling sistahs\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/i-Love-Shelling-sistahs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8928 aligncenter\" title=\"i Love Shelling sistahs\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/i-Love-Shelling-sistahs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"i Love Shelling sistahs\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/i-Love-Shelling-sistahs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/i-Love-Shelling-sistahs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the shelling sistahs can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=phoon\" target=\"_blank\">phoon<\/a><\/strong> too&#8230;. LOL&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"phooning Sanibel\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/phooning-Sanibel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8929 aligncenter\" title=\"phooning Sanibel\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/phooning-Sanibel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"phooning Sanibel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/phooning-Sanibel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/phooning-Sanibel.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the other fabulous treasures Tam Tam found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tammy seashells Sanibel\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-seashells-Sanibel-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8933 aligncenter\" title=\"Tammy seashells Sanibel\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-seashells-Sanibel--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy seashells Sanibel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-seashells-Sanibel--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-seashells-Sanibel-.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And even more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tammy all different shells Sanibel\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-all-different-shells-Sanibel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8932 aligncenter\" title=\"Tammy all different shells Sanibel\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-all-different-shells-Sanibel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tammy all different shells Sanibel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-all-different-shells-Sanibel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Tammy-all-different-shells-Sanibel-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check this out&#8230; it&#8217;s an imprint (fossil, it apprears) of seashells formed in some sort of rock (Clark thinks it is limestone).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"seashell imprints Tammy stone\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seashell-imprints-Tammy-stone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8931 aligncenter\" title=\"seashell imprints Tammy stone\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seashell-imprints-Tammy-stone-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"seashell imprints Tammy stone\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seashell-imprints-Tammy-stone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/seashell-imprints-Tammy-stone.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The cousins were having great luck! Karen found this GOLDEN OLIVE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"golden olive karen wg\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golden-olive-karen-wg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8923 aligncenter\" title=\"golden olive karen wg\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golden-olive-karen-wg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"golden olive karen wg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golden-olive-karen-wg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golden-olive-karen-wg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0She and Claudette were finding lots of BITTERSWEETS on the beach too. I have found a few lately and I always feel like I&#8217;ve found quite a treasure when I see them. They are just so colorful!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"bittersweet seashells sanibel florida\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bittersweet-seashells-sanibel-florida.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8924 aligncenter\" title=\"bittersweet seashells sanibel florida\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bittersweet-seashells-sanibel-florida-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bittersweet seashells sanibel florida\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bittersweet-seashells-sanibel-florida-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bittersweet-seashells-sanibel-florida.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats again Tam Tam! Your QUEEN CONCH is quite the catch and I feel so lucky too to finally get to meet you and Shell. Oh and I want to share a poem again that Tammy (Tam Tam) wrote. I posted My Sweet Sanibel on May 12, 2010. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/my-sweet-sanibel-a-poem-by-tammy-m\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"juvenile queen conch west coast florida\" href=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-west-coast-florida.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8940 aligncenter\" title=\"juvenile queen conch west coast florida\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-west-coast-florida-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile queen conch west coast florida\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-west-coast-florida-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/juvenile-queen-conch-west-coast-florida.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile QUEEN CONCH is a very rare find on Sanibel&#8230;. and &#8220;our &#8221; Tammy found one!!! If you&#8217;ve ever read the comments on any of my posts, her name is &#8220;Tam Tam From Michigan&#8221; and I finally got to meet her (in real life person!) this weekend on Sanibel and this was the first [&hellip;]<\/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":[892,910,1964,1414,1492,8],"tags":[1495,1494,1415,1493,2050,2082],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittersweet","category-fossil","category-giant-bittersweet","category-golden-olive","category-queen-conch-conch","category-sanibel","tag-bittersweet-2","tag-fossil-impressions","tag-golden-olive-2","tag-queen-conch-west-gulf-florida","tag-sanibel","tag-seashells","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\/8922","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=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}