The Crab and The Sunset
The larger shells are coming back in around West Gulf Drive…finally! We found plenty of FIGHTING CONCHS, a few LIGHTNING WHELKS and BANDED TULIPS….but how about that crazy CRAB! He was running back and forth in the surf and then stopped to check me out.
All of these were found on the beach off West Gulf Drive around beach access #7.
Lightning Whelk in Gulf surf
Kalex (Tennessee)
Kalex has been coming to Sanibel to shell with his family for the past 3 years. He had a shell bag with lots of OLIVES but was on a mission looking for the mini shells.
Kalex's mini shells
Sunset Fishing
I didn’t see it, but Clark and another guy on the beach said they saw the green flash on this sunset. They said I turned away too quickly…darn! I was messing with my camera, I’m sure. Of all the sunsets I’ve seen, I’ve only seen the green flash about 3 times. When it happens…celebrate!
Oh, I love the crab photo especially!! I just had a group of crabs on Mexico Beach pose for me and be oh so patient with me. I have never had that happen to me before…they are always either scampering into the Gulf, their holes or just away from me. Thank you for sharing these photos!! I always love coming to your website. It is like home to me to see all of these beach photos!!! Dovie
Hey Pam, I really enjoy your photos!! When I clicked on these to enlarge, they stayed little, so I couldn’t get a good look at the detail, like I usually can in your high res. photos. Did you do something different or change a setting?! When enlarged, I actually find myself cyber-shelling your photos for my favs, like wormies!!
Hi Pam,
I love your blog and have learned so much. I am interested in what kind of camera you are using? Keep educating us on shells!
Thanks, yall! I don’t have a big expensive camera…it’s just a panasonic lumix dmc-zs3 (a little point and shoot). I am really hard on cameras- the salt, sand, water and just being thrown around in general- I hope this one will keep up because I’m crazy about it.
I did change my settings on my photos- you caught me Deb! I have been getting warnings from friends and other people that I need to better protect my photos even though they are copyrighted. grrrrr. Sorry, I had to change the size. I hate that too!!!!!!! How ’bout if I try to take more close-ups on the shell piles for you to cyber-shell?
Pam I have the same issues,how do you change the settings on a camera ? I once found my pics on another persons website that lived in Hawaii,go figure :-/
I love your blog Pam….so glad I happened to find it through another blog I subscribe to but I don’t remember which one.
I always enjoy your blog and photos, but the crab picture really made me laugh :-) It’s like he’s really posing for you!
Pam, I love your photos!!! I finally got to a computer to check out your site, love it , love it!!!! Pat
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