Celebrated the Birth of Jesus Christ this week & Found Lots of Starfish/Sea Stars

The wise men followed a star to Baby Jesus and the day after Christmas lots of starfish wash ashore. The drop in temp killed them, sad to say. Here's my starfish (or sea star) photos...

The day after Christmas and found these along the beach


My fav is the Royal Starfish


Went out again and found some more




Close up... 4 kinds


Later in the day, walked a couple of miles down to the jetty and found MORE...


Close up


Brought these back plus a few more


My starfish haul on the patio drying out


Today brought them inside and already gave away 12 of them


Still Life of starfish, barnacles and oyster shells


ALSO found shells...

Christmas eve got off work early and went digging...




Day after Christmas


Orange Tellin... first time to find one and both front and bottom still connected!


Yesterday morning




Afternoon dig at the state park


My view while perched on a sand dune digging for hidden treasure






This morning




Condo Flyby


This afternoon






By the way, we had a White (sand) Christmas!




Pretty Cockles and Poinsettia

It's Official... The Days Will Now Get Longer :)

It was grey and dreary all weekend but today was the shortest day of the year and now the days will begin getting longer

Today was interesting as I dug and found 3 bullets which I gave to my cop neighbor who took care of them for me. You just never know what kinda a shell you'll find!







Later this afternoon between rain, collected lots of shells in the state park - no dig - and this deceased but pretty sea star


Today's Keepers


And yesterday, also no dig and found all this


Again no dig on Thursday at lunch...






Turkey Wing & another Sand Dollar


Mossy Arks


COOL SHOT OF THE WEEK
From yesterday, this Osprey taking his Mullet breakfast over my head

More Shelling in December

Been shelling at St Andrews State Park a few times this week

Here's a tulip


It's fun to find shells hiding in the sand dunes















My bounty last Tuesday and Wednesday during my lunch hour


Friday was our work Christmas Party at lunch and then got the rest of the day off, so guess what I did?





Saturday shelling


Sunday shelling


Made a still life on the beach with my finds


Afternoon dig




Found another Angle wing to add to my little collection


Happy Shelling!