Wednesday, June 1, 2016

May 2016 Shelling

May 1, 2016



May 2, 2016







May 3, 2016



May 5, 2016





May 7, 2016

Barnacles which threw back in the water because they were still alive.


Nice beach graffiti I found




Lightning Whelk


Spring Cleaning! Dumped out about 15 bags of shells on the sand for others to enjoy.




Then I went out and found more lol!


May 9, 2016
Keepers


May 10, 2016
Beautiful Sunray Venus clam found washed ashore in front of my condo




May 14, 2016
Shell cleanup: These are going to a couple of friends


Love the Zig Zag Clam shells! Here is a top and bottom which are pretty close in size but I found this in 2 different spots






May 15, 2016
Egg Casing: Every now and again these wash ashore & are usually empty


Doubles!




May 16, 2016



More keepers


May 17, 2016

Baby's Ear




May 20, 2016

Another egg casing washed ashore


Rare find: Imperial Venus Clam intake - found buried so not alive. This is one of my very favorite shells!






May 21, 2016

Kool Keepers




May 22, 2016



May 28, 2016



May 29, 2016

Resting on the jetty




Keeping a few scallops


May 30, 2016



Itty Bity Keepers


Someone made this pretty beach art


Saturday, April 30, 2016

April Shelling

This morning I made a video, the longest I've made on YouTube, 18 min so here it is:



And here are all my shelling photos for April!

April 2, 2016
After a storm, this area opened up for great shelling all month!


Always enjoying meeting folks :)




The day's keepers
L-R: Helmut, Sundial, Bittersweet Clam, Florida Alphabet Cone, Lightning Whelk and Ark


Third bag of the day


Fourth bag


April 3, 2016
Found lots of goodies including several Lightning Whelks and Banded Tulips


Big Lightning Whelk!


The coveted Junonia!


New members of the club :)




Bag three


April 5, 2016


April 6, 2016


April 7, 2016






April 9, 2015
Itty Bity


Baby Horse Conch, Florida's state shell


A couple of Banded Tulips ~ love these shells!




April 10, 2016
Worm Shell




Keepers


April 12, 2015
Odds and Ends


More Keepers


Bathroom decoration



April 16, 2016
Jodi visited




April 21, 2016


April 22, 2016


April 23, 2016
The early bird snags the shells






It's a hard life and someone's gotta do it!




April 24, 2016


This guy said he and his wife had seen this blog :)


Keepers


Big sanddollar


Love the ZigZag Scallop


This is what the top and bottom looks like for a ZigZag Scallop


April 25, 2016




April 30, 2016
Found this early this morning in front of my condo... a Sunray Clam still connected


Morning Keepers


Afternoon keepers







HAPPY SHELLING!