Successful Beach Combing Trip to Big Hickory Island
This is what a path to beach combing paradise looks like. After arriving to the secluded island of...
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Category: Lace Murex
Shelling In The Rain
We found darling little treasures rolling in the surf near Lighthouse Beach this week. In just an hour or so, our friends Gail and Alicia (Sanibel locals) had a nice walk along the water’s edge to find all these sweet...
Read MoreTwo Scoops Of Shellicious Treasures
Dont you remember that old saying… “If you don’t like the weather, just wait 10 minutes”? Well, it’s the same with shelling in Southwest Florida. We’ve had swirling high winds with rain the...
Read MoreWarm Sandy Beach Wishes
When the weather on Sanibel and Captiva is in the high 70s and low 80s during the winter months like now, it’s hard not to be outside every minute of the day… so the world slips away. This weekend, Clark and I took a...
Read MoreHoliday Treasures At Low Tide Sanibel
With a full moon and very low tide at sunrise this morning, I couldn’t resist strapping on my head lamp to search for shells on the sand bars at Blind Pass Sanibel at 6:30 am this morning. I wasn’t the only one who...
Read MoreCaptiva Holiday Weekend Shellaganza
This Thanksgiving holiday weekend has been such a Shellaganza in Southwest Florida, it’s been hard to choose which beach to shell first! But as you know by my last post, we chose to shell Blind Pass Captiva on Thursday and...
Read MoreA Shell Of A Vacation
Well, well. Lookie what Matt and Denise found on their first trip to Sanibel… A big ole beautiful empty HORSE CONCH in the water on the Sanibel side of Blind Pass. Boom Shellalaka! They came over from the east coast of...
Read MoreHappy Shelling Families and Friendships
When girlfriends get together for a beach vacation, you can feel the sisterhood happiness and excitement all the way down the shore. The “Sistahs” are actually newbie shellers but are definitely not newbies at...
Read MoreAha! I Finally Found You, Fulgurator Olive!
Note to Self: Check off “Find a Fulgurator Olive” on my seashell bucket list! Oh Yaya! After a weekend of chilly north winds, I found my first FULGURATOR OLIVE at Blind Pass. I found it washing up in a somewhat small...
Read MoreBeach Bling Babes
Now who in their right shelling mind could not think that this little baby LACE MUREX shell is not THE cutest thing that ever washed up at the Sanibel Lighthouse Beach? heehee What a cutie petutie! I even found smaller baby...
Read MoreBeach Treats
We have been so fortunate to have had absolutely gorgeous, unseasonably warm weather for weeks on end now. Yes, it’s usually “shorts” weather in SouthWest Florida in January most years but we’ve had...
Read MoreBlind Pass Changes Again!
Do you remember that shellacious shell pile at Blind Pass Captiva I showed you on yesterday’s post “As The Seashell Piles Turn”? If those photos of the changes in the beach knocked your socks off...
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