Shellzam! Brenda from Indiana found an empty, big, beautiful LIGHTNING WHELK on our iLoveShelling Sight Sea-R cruise to Big Hickory Island today. Wow!
Cuties Rachel and Danielle helped her shellebrate while feeling happy with their finds too on this fabshellous adventure. So fun!
It was a fun and gorgeous morning pulling up to this small island sand bar at low tide.
Emily and Lily from Kentucky found SAND DOLLARS, shells and some cool bling…
Jessica (NY) found a nice size ALPHABET CONE, SHARKS EYES, ROSE PETAL TELLINS and lots of WORMS SHELLS and her mom Kathy found a very cool ROSEATE SPOONBILL feather in the wrack line.
Dima and Amy (MI) found some beauties!
Kelsea and Lori from South Carolina showed me their fave finds which included that cool BRYOZOAN COLONY, LACE MUREX, an awesome dark twisty WORM SHELL, GAUDY NATICA, WHITE CRESTED TELLIN and ROSE PETAL TELLINS.
Kim and Jon from St Louis showed me their faves too… a sweet baby ALPHABET CONE, a gorgeous FLAT SCALLOP, SUNRAY VENUS, ROSE PETAL TELLINS and wormies.
Leah, Julianna, June (MD) and Gramma Diane (NJ) found most of their shells in a little honey hole in the water. Way to go girls!
On the way to the island, we saw ROSEATE SPOONBILLS, STINGRAYS and DOLPHINS as I chose a winner for the Sealife By Congress sterling silver sand dollar pendant giveaway. Congratshellations Mackenzie! It was such a pleasure to meet you and your mom Tammi and your sister Peyton.
Everybody else on the cruise was happy too. They received a $25 certificate towards a jewelry piece of their own. Yay! Thank you Sealife By Congress– thats so nice!
I think everybody on the cruise found ROSE PETAL TELLINS and CORAL.
And everybody found WORMIES!
First Mate Meg even shelled for 5 minutes and found a BEACH BLING “Sea Hero” that guarded some of her other finds. cute!
Oh and Ingrid (from my last post) joined us as well and showed us her JUNONIA she found in front of the Island Inn on Sanibel yesterday. Boom Shellalaka!
We were so lucky to have a beautiful warm sunny day to spend 4 hours hanging out and shelling together.
I am so happy to announce that starting in August, Sight Sea-R Cruises has changed the hours for their regular shelling cruises EVERY Wednesday to go from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm (instead of leaving at 10am). Spectacsheller! So our iLoveShelling Sight Sea- R shelling cruises will be the same.
Uh-oh Pam….You are gonna be a morning person yet!! :) I can’t seem to time our trips down right to hit one of these cruises….really want to go on one of these trips “down south”!! I will keep working on it!! Looks like a great place!!
Pam, we had a spectacular time today on the cruise. My daughters and I were soo happy to finally get to meet you. Mackenzie was over the moon excited to have won the sand dollar pendant and I already took Peyton to get hers with the certificate. Thank you so much. This day will forever be a wonderful memory!!! Looking forward to future cruises with you :)
That’s a nice lightning whelk. I love the rose petal tellins. Back in Feb I found some juvie ones. Everyone found some nice varieties of shells. Looks like we’ll have to get up real early for the trip. Happy shelling. Pat
Thanks to a cab driver who kept announcing he was at our home when he was not, and I don’t know how you get lost on a small bay, we were late to the airport and missed our flight out on Tuesday.
Seeing what a great time was had and fab treasure found, well, I’m even more sorry that we had to miss yesterday’s excursion.
We are here now, though, and plan to make the best of our time. Perhaps my daughter, mother and I will bump into you on a beach during our stay, Pam. And to all the lovely people we missed meeting, we are glad you had such a great experience!
It’s always nice to see a crested tellin. Handsome lightning whelk too. :)
So excited to hear that Ingrid found a Junonia in front of Island Inn because I just booked our August trip and we’re staying there!!!
Pam, under the photo with the caption about everyone finding rose petal tellins and coral, I was wondering what the 2 shells were between the rose tellin and the big white shell? Are they very compact worm shells or something else?