{"id":9177,"date":"2012-01-04T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2012-01-04T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:36:07","slug":"pretty-perfect-lions-paw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/pretty-perfect-lions-paw\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Perfect Lion’s Paw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Donnie wasn’t kidding when he commented “Bring it!” for the wanna-be shelling competition in my January 1st post<\/a><\/strong>. He went right out to Blind Pass Captiva and scooped up his first perfect little LION’S PAW this morning! Score! You win today Donnie- Congrats!<\/p>\n

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

He must have snagged all the ALPHIES too because when I got there, I didn’t see a single piece of one in the whole big shell pile. He did miss this very cool piece of a DEER COWRIE though…<\/p>\n

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

Christy (TN) found some beautiful WHELKS and started to fill her bag with other goodies too…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0I saw lots of the Sanibel Six (minus the CONE) but mostly I loved this delicate FIG laying right on top of the pile untouched…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0I always love to see people sharing their treasures. I caught Carolyn and Les (Fort Myers) admiring the shells together they just found.<\/p>\n

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

I walked over to the Sanibel side to find hundreds of dead MULLET fish laying on the beach. Ugh. A casualty of Red Tide<\/a><\/strong>. Yuck.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0I’ve heard that red tide has been really bad around the\u00a0Sanibel\u00a0lighthouse so I’ve stayed clear of the east end beaches the last week. I get that irritating cough when I breath it so it’s not worth it to me any more (I used to tough it out since “they” say it can’t hurt you). But it looks like it’s hit Captiva now too but I didn’t feel that tickle in my chest- whew.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0I think this may be why Clark and I have found those big shells<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>lately too. Could be from the red tide….. but don’t quote me on that. I’m only speculating since it’s not every day you find 3 (!) huuuuge shells like that in one day. I also found this cool skull…<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0When I found this, I thought it looked so cool and looked like a bird skull. Like an OSPREY or something but it’s not. It is some sort of fish.<\/p>\n

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

Anybody know what kind of fish skull this is? It sort of has that CRUCIFIX SHELL look about it but definitely not the same.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Any way, there are lots of shells still coming in from this windy cold front and hopefully the red tide will go away in the next few days so I can enjoy the beach like I did with my girlfriends Jane, Sandy and Mary…<\/p>\n

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

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

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Donnie wasn’t kidding when he commented “Bring it!” for the wanna-be shelling competition in my January 1st post. He went right out to Blind Pass Captiva and scooped up his first perfect little LION’S PAW this morning! Score! You win today Donnie- Congrats! He must have snagged all the ALPHIES too because when I got […]<\/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":[1481,886,887,38,224,1978,8],"tags":[1525,1523,1526,1524,1522],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bones","category-cowrie","category-deer-cowrie","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-lions-paw","category-paper-fig","category-sanibel","tag-beach-bones","tag-fish-skull","tag-lions-paw-sanibel","tag-looks-like-a-bird-skull","tag-sanibel-red-tide","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\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}