Alphabet Cone, Shark's Eyes, Whelk, Angel Wing
These are just a few shells that were in Jonathan and Kelly’s shell bucket yesterday at the lighthouse beach. That ALPHABET CONE was about 2 1/2 inches long and the ANGEL WING was around 5 1/2 inches. Do you know how hard it is to find a whole angel wing so large at that beach? Actually, Jonathan said it wasn’t on the beach. He said they were out in the water waist to chest high digging around. Want to see what else they found there a few days earlier?
Jonathan's horse conch seashell 12 inches
Wow! It still has that dark color underneath those barnacles. He was hoping most of those barnacles would pop off with a little soaking when they get home to Kentucky. I’m hoping he’ll send an “after” picture when it gets cleaned up. This was the 2nd time shelling…… do you think they’re gonna be hooked? ;)
Shellers Jonathon and Kelly (Kentucky)
Kelly's shell bucket
There were all sorts of goodies washing in! Everybody was finding treasure.
Carolyn's (Iowa) lightning whelks and tulips
Garrett (Cape Coral) with Sanibel shells
And last but not least…. Dear friends Gabie and Grace from Miami with their hands filled with shells found on the beach at Sundial Resort. Aren’t they sooooo cute?
Gabbie and Grace with seashells
oh how I wish I were there!!
Ohhhh I so love reading your blog and my daughters just love watching the videos (especially the sea turtle hatchlings….).
We were so grateful to you and Clark for all the great shelling adventures and education you provided to our 2 lil ladies.
Thanks again.
Gracie’s and Gabie’s Mom
Really nice shells. I’m not very lucky finding shells at the Lighthouse. Where do you think the best shelling at the Lighthouse beach is–the gulf side, the curve (at least that’s what I call it) or over by the pier? Will be there Oct. 31st for a month. My sister might join us for a week and she’s never been to Sanibel and I know she’s going to love it.
A first timer! She’s gonna love it! Yall take a look on the left side of the blog where it says “Categories”. There is a big long list of names of shells, hotels, areas……etc. If you look under “Sanibel” you’ll see another link to “lighthouse”. This will give you most of my posts that I have mentioned the lighthouse, what I’ve found, what others have found, and by most of the photos you can see where on the beach we were….. and just stuff I thought was fun. So this goes for any of the links on the left under “Categories”. If you want to see where the most whelks (for instance) are found…..just click on “whelks” or Lightning whelks”. I’ve tried very hard to make it easy to navigate through to get lots of information for you to make your best choices in finding the treasures that you like. Everybody likes different goodies! I hope this helps. For other info see http://iloveshelling.com/blog/faqs/
I can’t believe it! I was JUST at the lighthouse beach digging around. I did find some good ones but I have yet to find an alphabet cone. I will keep looking though!