{"id":9924,"date":"2012-03-18T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2012-03-18T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T15:26:51","slug":"blind-pass-captiva-still-stirring-seashells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/18\/blind-pass-captiva-still-stirring-seashells\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Pass Captiva Still Stirring Seashells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"captiva shelling Suzanne\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/captiva-shelling-Suzanne-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9934 aligncenter\" title=\"captiva shelling Suzanne\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/captiva-shelling-Suzanne--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"captiva shelling Suzanne\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/captiva-shelling-Suzanne--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/captiva-shelling-Suzanne-.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That seashell pile on Captiva&#8217;s Blind Pass jetty rocks is the gift that keeps on giving. Suzanne (Ft Myers) found a tiny bright orange HORSE CONCH with that cute little white tip about the same time I found my &#8220;candy&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"horse conch candy\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-candy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9926 aligncenter\" title=\"horse conch candy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-candy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"horse conch candy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-candy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-candy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Get ready, cyber shellers! This is the shell pile I saw my little treasured &#8220;candy&#8221;. I was doing the Sit &#8216;N Sift in that big pile when I saw a little sliver of orange peeking through. Can you find it too? (Click the pic to enlarge. It&#8217;s a big file so it might take longer to download)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"cyber shell captiva\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cyber-shell-captiva.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9929 aligncenter\" title=\"cyber shell captiva\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cyber-shell-captiva-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cyber shell captiva\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cyber-shell-captiva-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cyber-shell-captiva-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You got it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"tiny orange seashell buried\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiny-orange-seashell-buried.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9930 aligncenter\" title=\"tiny orange seashell buried\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiny-orange-seashell-buried-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"tiny orange seashell buried\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiny-orange-seashell-buried-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tiny-orange-seashell-buried.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Dave and Colleen (PA) were practically digging to China to strike buried treasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"digging sea shells captiva\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/digging-sea-shells-captiva.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9933 aligncenter\" title=\"digging sea shells captiva\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/digging-sea-shells-captiva-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"digging sea shells captiva\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/digging-sea-shells-captiva-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/digging-sea-shells-captiva.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eureka! \u00a0They struck gold! He pulled out a golden HORSE CONCH and said &#8220;<em>There are 2 famous lines for shellers. The first one is&#8230; &#8216;Oh my gosh that shell is absolutely gorgeous!&#8217; and the second one is&#8230;&#8217;Awwww. If this shell were whole, it&#8217;d be perfect!&#8217;<\/em>&#8221; hahaha How many times have we all said those line??!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"horse conch shell mound\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-shell-mound.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9931 aligncenter\" title=\"horse conch shell mound\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-shell-mound-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"horse conch shell mound\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-shell-mound-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/horse-conch-shell-mound.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0While I was on the shell pile digging around, <strong><a title=\"Super Sheller Clark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/super-sheller-clark-rambo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clark<\/a><\/strong> was in the water with his infamous shelling backhoe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"clark water shell pile\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/clark-water-shell-pile.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9936 aligncenter\" title=\"clark water shell pile\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/clark-water-shell-pile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"clark water shell pile\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/clark-water-shell-pile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/clark-water-shell-pile.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew he had something unusual when he came up to give me a shell. A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/sorting-seashells-for-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">BEAUTIFUL CRASSATELLA<\/a><\/strong>! We don&#8217;t often find these on Captiva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"beautiful Crassatella shell id\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beautiful-Crassatella.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9932 aligncenter\" title=\"beautiful Crassatella\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beautiful-Crassatella-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful Crassatella\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beautiful-Crassatella-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beautiful-Crassatella.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Another beautiful day in paradise!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Snowy Egret captiva\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowy-Egret-captiva.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9925 aligncenter\" title=\"Snowy Egret captiva\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowy-Egret-captiva-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Egret captiva\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowy-Egret-captiva-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snowy-Egret-captiva.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0That seashell pile on Captiva&#8217;s Blind Pass jetty rocks is the gift that keeps on giving. Suzanne (Ft Myers) found a tiny bright orange HORSE CONCH with that cute little white tip about the same time I found my &#8220;candy&#8221; too. \u00a0Get ready, cyber shellers! This is the shell pile I saw my little treasured [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[1504,5,3,37,442],"tags":[1620,1622,739,2066,71,1621],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beautiful-crassatella","category-blind-pass","category-captiva","category-horse-conch","category-snowy-egret","tag-beautiful-crassatella-2","tag-candy-corn-shell","tag-cyber-shelling","tag-horse-conch","tag-shelling","tag-virtual-shell","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\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}