More shells from Whelk City, all laid out on the kitchen counter to dry after their bath
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More shells from Whelk City, all laid out on the kitchen counter to dry after their bath
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This was the first find I made on the slope I named "Whelk City" between Access 4 and Access 5 on Sanibel. Now, don’t everyone go running there – first of all, I got ’em all 😉 Second, it’s a different beach every day. Who knows where today’s best finds will be?
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Some of the shells I found during the full moon are "stinkers". They were found in what we called "the death pool", which stank to high heaven.
Stinkers are often beautiful, perfect specimens (well, so would you be, if you died very young and very recently), but they are high maintenance. Probably, what makes them stink is that there is a little piece of the dead occupant still caught up there in the inner chambers of the shell.
Mine will stay in a bucket of 50/50 solution of bleach and water until I feel like trying again to get ’em all empty and clean.
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Still water getting in and out of the Pass via a narrow channel. A heron hangs out waiting for fish to float along
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Mother Nature will not be denied!
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Just when we thought it would be a bust, I found a slope with Whelk City upon it. Good times!
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… all season and NO SHELLS 🙁
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… before I find any more "treasure". No, I dunno whatthe orange thing is but it seems to me that our little beach girl now has a pet (I think it is a fishing lure)
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Still on Sanibel spoil island and came across this poor, hapless horseshoe crab
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It seems I am always rescuing lost toys. I should start a blog about this!
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I usually find at least one jewel on the causeway beaches – this is today’s.
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I have made it all the way to the second spoil island – perhaps I will make landfall soon LOL but righ now, I am just diggin’ the scenery here.
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Sanibel Island Causeway from the first spoil island.
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