Whelks, Sand Dollars, Scotch Bonnets on Cayo Costa
Cayo Costa island was loaded with seashells on our iLoveShelling cruise with Captiva Cruises last...
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Category: Scotch Bonnet
Abshellute Shellmania!
I was at Blind Pass Captiva to witness three JUNONIAS being found after we had a nice storm from the gulf last week. It was shellmania at its best! Jo was a little too shy to have her photo taken but this was first one she...
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Crazy Carolina Beach Combing – Shelling Trip To Portsmouth Island, North Carolina
I feel like I just got back from being on the Amazing Shell Race in the Carolinas! Look at the...
Read MoreSpectacsheller Shell Mountain
After five days, the mound of shells that built up at Blind Pass Captiva last week is still producing exshellent finds. There was a QUEEN HELMET found this morning! Donna and Ray from North Carolina were sifting through this...
Read MoreSeashells Rock Southwest Florida
Shells! Shells! Shells! I teased you yesterday with a quick update post of Beth’s beautiful seashells she found at Lighthouse Beach after west winds whipped through Southwest Florida a few days earlier in the week, but it...
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 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 MoreScotch Bonnets On Cayo Costa iLoveShelling Cruise
It was a spectacsheller day of shelling on the Captiva Cruise’s iLoveShelling shell seeker boat adventure to the secluded island of Cayo Costa yesterday. There were so many different varieties of shells that were found on...
Read MoreCShells Sees Seashells By The Seashore
CShells sees seashells by the seashore. She snagged this sweet LIONS PAW scallop shell with her seashell sifter when she saw it on Sanibel this week. CShells really slayed Sanibel when husband Richard reaped rewards of reeling...
Read MoreWelcome To Captiva
I saw several work trucks in the Blind Pass parking lot so, of course my first thought was that this was the first sign for the dredging of the pass to begin. Then I saw… literally… a “sign”. A new...
Read MoreColorful Juvenile Milk Conch On Sanibel
As Jane and I walked all along West Gulf Drive after those cold (down to 37 degrees!) winds came through this past week, I heard her say “Whoa!” then bend down to pick up a shell. She found a JUVENILE MILK CONCH! A...
Read MoreGotten, The Cabrits Of Our Lives
It’s not easy to find a CABRIT’S MUREX on the beaches of Sanibel.. much less with some of the spines still in tact. So I was over the moon when Clark found this one near Bowman’s Beach. (Okay, hopefully not the...
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