On this Thanksgiving week, I’d like to give thanks to each and every one of you who have touched my life by hanging out with me here at iLoveShelling. I’m grateful to you for making me feel a part of your lives in this amazing community we’ve created together to share our passion for shelling.
Just in case you are a newbie here, my “harvest” scene is filled with some of the beautiful HORSE CONCH shells Clark and I have collected through out the years on Sanibel. The smaller horsies are orange with a white tip which look just like little candy corns to me… hence the name of this post “Candy Cornucopia”. Get It? Ha!
Anyhoo, I promised I’d show you a few low tide shells that we found at Little Hickory. You are right Kim, it’s been a Cone-acopia (Ha!) lately and Little Hickory didn’t disappoint. See how to find half buried cones at low tide in my next video.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you again and enjoy the video!
You lucky, lucky girl!! ;-) I have shell…no alphabet envie! Lol!
Happy Thanksgiving to you Pam and Clark as well. May you be continually blessed this holiday season!
Thank you Pam! I am so grateful to have these opportunities to return to Sanibel through your blog posts, even when I am not on vacation in my favorite place.
What a lovely Thanksgiving idea – will be my centerpiece next year!! Grateful for your shell inspiration and can’t wait to return for the Christmas holidays !!
Happy Thanksgiving you to, dear Pam. I have enjoyed your pictures, videos and comments so much through the past year or so. Thank you for being you. – Barbara
I absolutely LOVE your candy cornucopia! Such a fun idea. Have a wonderful and delicious turkey day!
Wow! Your excitement is contagious! What a treasure trove. Oh my, I must make a trip back there soon. I feel another Junonia coming on — and now i have all these great shelling tips from you – I am ready to go! Happy Thanksgiving and I am thankful for Sanibel and its amazing people, beauty and shells! Isn’t it great that they just keep on coming? :)
What a great photo, Pam. LOVE the horsies in all their cornucopiatic (is that a word?) glory! You are so creative. HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and all our Shellin’ Sistahs!
This year, I will add your blog to my list of things I am thankful for :). Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Pam, and to all my virtual shelling friends here !!
Happy Thanksgiving my friends !
9 more days Pam – My daughter and I have spent about 3 hours watching all of your videos and combing your page. We have a shelling sickness :-) Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving! Can’t wait for our trip!!
We all are fantastically grateful to you Pam for bringing the beautiful Southwestern Florida beaches and their gorgeous shells right into our living rooms! Especially those of us who live in the colder parts of the country!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone :)
Pam, thank you for being our eyes to see the shells and hands to pick them up when we can’t be there. We live our love of shelling and Sanibel through you.
May you and Clark have a wonderful holiday season!
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Enjoying our visit here on beautiful Sanibel.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Pam your website helps me realize everyday how beautiful our world is and how much we should be thankful for it !!!!! I am also so thankful that my husband is still doing well and that we can all make our pilgrimage to Sanibel after Christmas with the kids and grandkids for our winter vacation to Mitchell’s
Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for being such a fun part of my days!
Hello,
I’ve been following your blog for a long time now, but this is my first time posting. This video made me more jealous than any one you’ve posted before. For a long time I couldn’t find an ABC cone. I finally found some this year, but none as nice as the ones you found here. The first one I found was when I was out with Captain Brian, on the same trip where I found my first King’s Crown Conch.
I just got back from Sanibel. When I was there, I went out with our mutual friends MurexKen and MurexAlice to the mud flats. I found 3 large tulips, 2 large lightening whelks, a pair of Angels Wings that I dug carefully out of the mud under Ken’s instruction, and a few minor things. No alphabet cones, though. I’m still waiting for my first large, close to perfect one. I also fell in the mud up to my knees a few times, getting mud splashed all the way up to my hat- it was fun!
I love your cornucopia picture here.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow shelling addicts!
Ann
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder
Thank you Pam for giving us a peak at all that Southwest Florida has to offer.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I am thankful for folks like Pam and Clark and their love of wildlife. Sanibel is an amazing blend of commercial and natural areas and because of this you never know what you will see. Every day is a treasure hunt! You might see a ray or dolphin or a tiny octopus and of course, there are always shells to find.
What a beautiful Florida centerpiece! Hope you and Clark have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
That is really clever! Happy Thanksgiving Pam!!
You and Iloveshelling are among the things I am thankful for. Closely following Sanibel itself and the trip there beginning Dec 7. Can’t wait to see all again.
Happy Thanksgiving.
So many shells, so little time… LOVE your candy cornucopia! And your video! And all your photos! Am I gushing?! I will be there with my family in ten days but I can hardly wait! So many thanks to you for letting me live the Sanibel life vicariously through you.
Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for the virtual shelling you offer all year long!
thanks so much Pam, once again, for the delightful squeals you are not afraid to share as you find your buried treasures!! We are one with you in that ! Wow, didn’t know Little Hickory beach at Bonita was such a treasure trove! is it usually so productive during low tides? You have no idea how much I love checking for your new posts, until one day I can make it over to the west coast of FL myself… do you know I keep that little 2″ wooden box with mini shells from SW FL ( that you shared with me 2 yrs ago), here on the bed beside me?! Whenever I have too much pain, or am a little down, I open up the cover and put a few in my hand at a time and marvel over them.. I am so grateful and thankful today especially for this marvelous blog~ I Love Shelling! We love you Pam and as a community we all want to thank you for sharing your love of shelling with us and drawing us together in it!.. thanks also to Clark for his part.. it doesn’t go unnoticed. Thanksgiving hugs!
Cathy B ~ SE FL
I am so grateful for your blog! Thank you for bringing me to the ocean and giving me something to smile about ;) how is the shelling in sanibel now? Unfortunately, we are going when there are east winds which I know aren’t great in terms of shells but I was wondering if there were any good spots for eastern winds? Many thanks,
Emma
Pam I so enjoyed visiting your island. My grandson and I had so much fun shelling I was lucky to find 3 alphabet cones and the Sanibel six we went to Cayo Island. We found sand dollars. I owe what we found and how we found it to your blog and instructions. Thank you
Happy Thanksgiving Pam. I never find any horse conchs bigger than your little “candies.” I live on the East coast and they aren’t the “Candies” but solid brown. Very pretty cornucopia picture. : ) Love your shelling blog/facebook.
Oh how sweet! It’s like a mama and her little babies!
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Its 3.30am and our turkeyless day is over…my niece and I had chicken instead…but we reminisced about past tgivings and toured the island ending at blind pass. It was high tide but it is never a wrong time to listen to the waves and be thankful for being on Sanibel. What a wonderful blessing. Hope to run into you yet, Pam….. jl
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you, Pam and Clark too,
Just want you to know that I’m still here looking in and catching up with days I’ve missed…it’s a blessing to have you there on Sanibel keeping all things “Sanibel” fresh for us until we come back again…it’s been almost one year ago that we met you and Clark at the Christmas Festival and then my Mermaid Mom and Sisters were lucky enough to see you again at the Shell Show in February. Thanks for such an entertaining and educational experience!
P.S. next time maybe I’ll find more than one itty bitty WT!
Thanks for everything you do Pam – i love your blog and I adore you! Happy Thanksgiving and big hugs.
Happy Thanksgiving to you! I’ve enjoyed your blog so much!!! Can’t wait to be back on the island – 2 months and counting!! Safe some shells for me, please. Hugs!
A special thanks to you and Clark, over the years you’ve given us an opportunity to see Sanibel thru your eyes. We tried Little Hickory on Thanksgiving, no shells. I think everyone can hear me whine about not finding a nice alphabet, I still have a few day to find one.
I am grateful for you and Clark for sharing your love of the island and shelling with us. You make our days!!!!