{"id":9153,"date":"2012-01-01T19:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2020-03-22T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:08:50","slug":"2012-new-year-brings-big-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/2012-new-year-brings-big-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 New Year Brings BIG Shells!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-attachment-id=\"9156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/2012-new-year-brings-big-shells\/clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1325424367&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Clark 13 inch whelk horse conch knobless wonder\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Clark 13 inch whelk horse conch knobless wonder&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Clark 13 inch whelk horse conch knobless wonder\" class=\"wp-image-9156\" title=\"Clark 13 inch whelk horse conch knobless wonder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s faster than the normal beachcomber. He&#8217;s got powerful Xray vision to see through water ripples. He can leap wide sand bars at a single bound. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/super-sheller-clark-rambo\/\">Super Sheller Clark<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-attachment-id=\"9157\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/2012-new-year-brings-big-shells\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1325425895&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"13 inch whelk horse conchs\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;13 inch whelk horse conchs&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;13 inch whelk horse conchs&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"13 inch whelk horse conchs\" class=\"wp-image-9157\" title=\"13 inch whelk horse conchs\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/13-inch-whelk-horse-conchs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark has started the new year off pretty dang well. He found this 13 inch LIGHTNING WHELK and that middle&nbsp;12 inch&nbsp;HORSE CONCH which is a KNOBLESS WONDER! Look how much smoother the shoulder and spire is compared to the one on the right (the one I found!)&#8230; no knobs! So cool, right? I&#8217;ll get them cleaned up and show you the other cool things we found boating to the out islands of Sanibel\/Captiva this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-attachment-id=\"9155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/2012-new-year-brings-big-shells\/large-horse-conch-seashell\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell-.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1325423858&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"large horse conch seashell\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;large horse conch seashell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;large horse conch seashell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell-.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"large horse conch seashell\" class=\"wp-image-9155\" title=\"large horse conch seashell\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/large-horse-conch-seashell-.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to learn the best way to clean you HORSE CONCHS, check out my tutorial &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/tutorial-for-how-to-clean-horse-conch-shells\/\">https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/05\/tutorial-for-how-to-clean-horse-conch-shells\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s faster than the normal beachcomber. He&#8217;s got powerful Xray vision to see through water ripples. He can leap wide sand bars at a single bound. He is Super Sheller Clark! Clark has started the new year off pretty dang well. He found this 13 inch LIGHTNING WHELK and that middle&nbsp;12 inch&nbsp;HORSE CONCH which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9156,"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":[1519,38,8,2007],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knobless-wonder","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-sanibel","category-whelk","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Clark-13-inch-whelk-horse-conch-knobless-wonder.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-2nD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","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=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29346,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions\/29346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}