My Inner South Carolina Seashell Artist Is Channeling Whelks
I am channeling my inner artist looking at these CHANNELED WHELKS as I look back on our shelling...
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Category: Oyster
Bits and Pieces Of Unusual Shells
What is your favorite shell to collect? For me, it’s way too hard to choose a favorite but it’s always a happy day when I find a HORSE CONCH (upper left corner pictured above) and a WORM SHELL (the crazy corkscrew...
Read MoreBringing On The Beachcombing
There is nothing more exciting than seeing shells line the beach as far as the horizon. At Tarpon Road beach access (mid island on Sanibel)… that’s what we saw yesterday- miles of shells. Amy from Alabama was a happy...
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So Many Rare Shells Found On Sanibel This Week
I have said countless times that the beaches of Southwest Florida change every day and by the hour...
Read MoreLion’s Paws Found After Beach Renourishment
It’s already a spectacsheller 2014! My dear friend Ellen found not just one LIONS PAW at Blind Pass Sanibel… but she found two LION’S PAWS! We walked passed that sand bar area that I’ve shown you in my last...
Read MoreString Of Shells On Captiva
As I walked onto the sand of Blind Pass Captiva towards the Gulf Of Mexico yesterday, I didn’t see much of a shell pile forming on the beach. But I did see Rena (Fort Myers) in the water about knee deep with her shelling...
Read MoreBack On The Beach At Blind Pass
Low tide Sunday morning shelling at Blind Pass ….ahhhhhhh. Hawg heaven! Even if there wasn’t a shell in site, I would have been a happy girl just to walk on the beach, breath the salty air, feel the waves touch my...
Read MoreA Lions Paw and Junonia
This morning the shells showed up under the bridge on the Sanibel side of Blind Pass again like last week. But this time, a LION’S PAW showed up!! My friend Eileen was the lucky one to find this sweet specimen. Wahhhooo!!...
Read MoreBeach Bling Clinging To Wing Oyster
I found more shells clinging to SEA WHIPS! This time I found quite a few ATLANTIC WING OYSTERS hitch hiking on those beautiful SEA WHIPS I talked about on my last post. Notice how pearlescent the inside is! I didn’t want...
Read MoreSeashells Sighting While Fish Are Biting
So Exciting! When I arrived at Blind Pass Captiva yesterday morning, I saw that guy catch a fish while everybody else was wallowing in the joy of the big shell pile. Happiness. Chris (Calgary, Canada) found this very big...
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Ordinary Oysters Turn Extraordinary
Isn’t it amazing that something this beautiful can be made from a shell that is so ordinary...
Read MoreMMM…. Mullosks!
The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum should be very happy with the turnout for the First Annual Edible Mullosk Festival at Timbers Restaurant & Fish Market . It was so much fun! There was an oyster eating contest, mullet tossing...
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