Here you go Cyber Shellers! Now you can virtually shell from the comfort of your own home with the help of this wonderful world wide web. Go ahead, click on the next photo so you can be right there on the beach with me when thousands of shells were piling up at Blind Pass Captiva days after Hurricane Isaac passed by in the Gulf Of Mexico. I did not arrange any of these shells! This is exactly what it looked like as they rushed up with each wave so try to find as many shells that you can!
On your mark… get set…. SHELL!
If you need help with identifying any shells, click here on my SEASHELL IDENTIFICATION page.
PS- Please accept my apologies for those of you that I met on the beach this week and have not yet shown off your treasures. This week was so very eventful, I had to take a day or 2 to catch up. I promise I will post them soon because y’all are MY treasures! xo
Thanks Pam – this helps hold me over – will be there 21st of September for a month – yeah can’t wait!
This is wonderful! I love your posts! Thank you for all the efforts you put into this site. It makes alot of us very happy!
I want to put my hand right through my ipad and grab them!!! Thanks Pam!!
Omg, me too! Love it!!! Although I must admit, I am filled with jealousy!
You are so funny Pam! But you know we love that cyber shelling!
I consider this training for my eyes!! Its sort of my way of keeping my eagle eyes in shape until I get to Sanibel this winter!!! :)
So true!
Envy is a sin and I’m confessing
What fun! I think I’ll zoom in and see what I can find. I did a little ID collage on my blog today and I still have one shell on my post that I could not identify. I hope I got the others right! Enjoy this holiday weekend! Hugs!
I checked out your blog– I think the unidentified shell is a frond oyster.
BTW, great buys at the quilters rummage!
Thank you, Pam. This is the next best thing than having my feet on the sand or the surf while I search for shells.
Must…..touch……shells……. Ooooo I want to hop a plane RIGHT NOW!
Love it!
You take such good care of us! Thanks, Pam!
Ohmygoodness!!! That is a WHOLE month worth of finds for me in one neat pile! I’m trying to figure out when I can get down for a couple days to shell with y’all! Not finding NEAR that after the storm passed here. : (
Where were these when I was there 2 weeks ago, huh??? Isaac, I hate you. But Pam, you rock!
P.S. However, I am happy for everyone that gets to run their fingers and toes through this bounty. (I might just have to make a quick trip over there this week…)
Thank you so much for the photo! It was enjoyed in West Des Moines, Iowa!!!!!
It was SO WONDERFUL meeting you Pam…and Clark too! I was so happy to run into you. Glad I was wearing my “I love Shelling” shirt :) Thank you so much for making my day :)
Happy shelling,
Lauren from NJ (with the HUGE bag of Sand Dollars)
Oh my gosh!! I found so many shells!…my bucket is full! Thanks for the cyber-fix, Pam!
Thank you, I love it!!!
My husband walked in, shook his head and just walked out. I looked at him and said, “What, WHAT?!? Can’t you see I’m shelling?!?” He just started laughing.
That’s awesome! Lol..
Ha! what I see in this pic ….”nice fighting conch!- live – darnit !.another fighting conch yes! -live -dangit!. another fighting conch ! -live – dammit! ” haaha! I must have tossed back over a dozen live ones when I was there! It was still a whole lotta fun though…
Weren’t you surprised at the number of live shells? It was so rough! At Blind Pass, some got stuck way up in the rocks so I put them back in the water. Have always wondered am I helping or hurting?
absolutely put them back in! they are remarkably resilient – several of the empty fighting conchs I collected showed evidence of heavy damage to the outer shell but were healing…obviously until something else did them in…
Thank you Steve. I did notice what you said about the trauma to the shells. Makes shells even more interesting :-). We found very small pretty ones but if they even looked alive, we didn’t take a chance and placed them back.
Yeah, I found about 11 on the sand above the high tide mark Saturday morning. I just chucked ’em all back in to make more babies!
AAAAaaahhhh! Thanks Pam! I needed that!
My nephew and I spent 3 very intense days looking for shells. On the drive home, we saw an empty garbage bag in the median and we both said at the same time, “That looked like a Murex.” Think we got a little too much sun.
I cannot believe the shelling. I remember way back in the early 90,s having experiences somewhat like that but last year we had nothing on the beaches. I had to take an excursion to Cayo to even find a fighting conch. Hope to have something like this when I am there in Oct. please, please, please!!!
The past few years have kind of been a drought of shells. We hit a good streak 2004-2006 (maybe because of the storms?). But the shelling at Blind Pass last Thursday was something I have never, ever seen before and thankful we made the call that day to go (we almost left early and headed home). Hope you have shelling nirvana in October.
OK – I must always be on the wrong beach…..I go to Blind pass – nothing. I go between the lighthouse and Nerita, (yesterday) – absolutely nothing even in the tide pools! Bowman’s was the best a couple days ago – and the few days after the storm were good, but now, nothing. Has the sea stopped yielding its treasures, or what? Oh well, I needed to get some work done anyway. One neat story – a lady stopped to ask me about a rather large whelk which was “well aged” and barnacled. I didn’t want to discourage her, but wasn’t sure it was salvageable. Later she came back past, and she had gotten rid of it – and in its place -oh my -someone had GIVEN her the biggest horse conch I’ve ever seen….they didn’t want to carry it home!!!!!! I had been thinking, why doesn’t she stop looking for big ones, and enjoy the smaller ones – there were several of those around that day….but she got her treasure anyway! That was neat.
Shells or not, I’m enjoying being back on the island. JL
You’re right about the small shells…some of the smallest are the prettiest! Plus, I think I found a golden olive at Blind Pass (Captive side) Saturday morning! I’m going to check it out.
I saw 5 shell that I would pick up!!!!!
See you in October.
I LOVE SHELLING.. I GOT HOOKED WHILE ON S.PADRE.. SANIBEL IS ON MY BUCKET LIST.. I STUMBLED ACROSS YOUR WEBSITE , NOW I DON’T MISS A DAY.. THANKS.. I LOVED THE CYBER SHELLING. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, PLAY, INFO.
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you lol
I’m so jealous can’t stand it. I’m in AZ, how cruel can you be. I just know there won’t be any left when I come next Spring.
You make my day and I look forward to seeing and drolling every time you post. Thank you….
Janet
That was fun… thanks! :-)
I can hear and feel Sanibel in that photo. Love it!!!
OMG!!! Can’t believe what I’m seeing. Absolutely AWESOME!!! Wish I was there. Gonna take alot of acid to brighten all those shells up. :>)
Thanks for the pics.