Shells

Video: Octopus with Eggs Hatching in Pen Shell on Sanibel

April 2, 2011

I just had to share this awesome video posted by Pam on her ILoveShelling blog. Be sure to visit her blog to see the photos and read about her experience with the octopus mom.

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Hundreds of Thousands of Fighting Conchs Appear on Bonita Beach, Florida

October 27, 2010

There’s a story in the News-Press today about a mass-beaching of Fighting Conchs (Strombus alatus) on Bonita Beach, Florida. Hundreds of thousands of live conchs were on the beach Tuesday. According to the article, the experts don’t know exactly why this occurs.  Explanations range from mating behavior to an extremely low tide. People quoted in [...]

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Live Shells on St. Pete Beach: Augers and Tulips

June 13, 2010

Low tide is a great time to find live shells on St. Pete Beach. Augers, tulips, fighting conchs, and olive shells were in abundance Saturday evening. There were a lot of augers, but not as many as the millions of Common Atlantic Augers we saw on Sanibel Island during our honeymoon. We always leave live [...]

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Fighting Conch Turns a Flip

June 13, 2010

I found this Florida Fighting Conch on Pass-a-Grille Beach Saturday evening in about 8 inches of water. I brought it up on dry sand to photograph it. It kept flipping itself over before I could get a good focus on it. Fighting conchs are fairly common on St. Pete Beach and Pass-a-Grille. My wife got [...]

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Fighting Conchs on St. Pete Beach

March 24, 2010

My wife Suzy (BeachHunter’s assistant) took a yoga class on St. Pete Beach this morning and took a walk afterwards on Pass-A-Grille Beach. She encountered this Florida Fighting conch and snapped a few photos. While many gastropods will withdraw into their shell when handled, the Fighting conch is fearless and will not retreat. They come [...]

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Augers to the Left of Me, Augers to the Right

October 4, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com.

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Ram’s Horn Squid (Spirula) Leaves Treasure for Beachcombers

July 15, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com A prize find for most any beachcomber is the coiled and chambered inner-shell of the ram’s horn squid (Spirula spirula). I found this on on Cocoa Beach a few months ago and decided it would be fun to get a good close-up photo of it. This beautiful shell is [...]

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Shelling on Pass-A-Grille-Beach

May 27, 2009

By David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com Pass-A-Grille beach is a fairly good place to look for shells. One of the best places is down near the jetty at the south end of the island. Shells, seaweed, and all kinds of flotsam and jetsam pile up on the beach near the jetty, so its always a good [...]

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Pen Shells in the Beach Wrack

April 15, 2009

They stink as they dry, but only for a day or so. Within a week or so, the old wrack line is buried. While still fresh, it is a dinner table and playground for creatures of the beach.

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Tracking the Elusive Shells of Charlotte Harbor

December 16, 2008

If you’ve been following this blog for the last few days, you’ll know that an unusually low tide hampered my ability to get to Cayo Costa Island State Park from Pine Island on Saturday December 13. However, I did manage to spend a few minutes hunting for shells in the exposed mud next to the [...]

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