Shelling Like A Kid In a Candy Store
I felt like a kid in a candy store yesterday! Steady west winds pushed a beautiful pile of shells rich with colors of yellow and orange. Look at that yummy GAUDY NATICA, sweet LIGHTNING WHELK,...
View ArticleBreakfast of Shelling Champions
I may not be a champion but I like my weekend breakfast to be garnished with TULIPS while I fill up on PEARS…. Quite a few PEAR WHELKS … With a little NUTMEG… This weekend’s low tides were in the early...
View ArticleHappy Shelloween!
I hope your shell ‘o lantern is filled with goodies like this…. And of course a little candy corn…
View ArticleShellebrating Outrageous Shelling Days
For 5 days now, the shelling in SouthWest Florida as been has been outrageous! It doesn’t get more outrageous that finding your very first JUNONIA after 20 years of searching… then 2 days later,...
View ArticleSeashelling And Cybershelling At Sanibel Lighthouse Beach
Just a few steps from the Sanibel Lighthouse, oodles of seashells were being washed up near the shoreline yesterday. I overheard Kathy and Karen (Wisconsin) getting very excited about the shells they...
View ArticleSanibel Seashell Babies
On my beach walk at the Lighthouse Beach today, I saw many different lines of shells and oodles of Beach Bling in lots of different wrack lines to sift through. About half a mile away from the...
View ArticleAdventure In Paradise With Awesome Shellers
The only thing cloudy about our Captiva Cruises iLoveShelling trip to Cayo Costa were the live CLOUDY PERIWINKLES hiding in clusters on the tree roots at the south tip of the island. It’s been such a...
View ArticleWeek Of Shell Wonder
Could you imagine finding these 2 huge empty HORSE CONCHS wading through the Sanibel gulf waters? Well Diane Foley and her sister-in-law not only found 2 off Middle Gulf Drive... they found 5 of these...
View ArticleCraving The Beach
These were my fave finds from last night’s beach walk at Gulfside City Park. I’m craving mac ‘n cheese for some reason now, aren’t you? heehee I found the orange HORSE CONCH candies and this beautiful...
View ArticleSeeking Shellter
It’s hot on Sanibel Island in August and September so its the time of year when I try to organize the Rambo Shellaboratory by sorting shells we’ve collected in the past months and try to find room to...
View ArticleI Lassoed Me A Sanibel Horse Conch
And then this happened this weekend… I found this spectacsheller empty HORSE CONCH! I was walking along with my friend Alicia and then… Boom- Shellalaka! I saw part of that bright color shell half...
View ArticleBeach Bucks To Big Whelks – Our Shelling Adventure
A new shelling destination! Our iLoveShelling Adventure with Captiva Cruises has lead us to explore a new part of to Cayo Costa island… and its so cool. We had quite the adventure as the temperature...
View ArticleSeashell Treasures Brought to the Islands By Hermine
On your WHELK. Get CERITH. GO Shelling! For the past 3 days, Southwest Florida has been peppered with high winds, rough and choppy seas in Gulf Of Mexico, rain showers and extreme tides. Thank...
View ArticleThe Calm After The Storm
The best time to find lots of shells on the beaches of southwest Florida is after a storm coming from the Gulf Of Mexico – which is exactly what happened last weekend when Tropical Storm/Hurricane...
View ArticleEaster Boating with Super Sheller Clark
Happy Easter every bunny! Shellzam! Right? Can you believe the different variety of amazing shells the Easter Bunny left us on Kice Island and Second Chance Island? We love boating to all the islands...
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