SEASHELLS!!

[user 29855]

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Above & below Queen conch shells and what they look like when you find them. Before & after you clean them.
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Queen conchs found last year in The Keys. I kept 3 of these and gave the rest away as gifts.

intjonny

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Above & below Queen conch shells and what they look like when you find them. Before & after you clean them.
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Queen conchs found last year in The Keys. I kept 3 of these and gave the rest away as gifts.

intjonny

Are these just lying in the srf

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Above & below Queen conch shells and what they look like when you find them. Before & after you clean them.
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Queen conchs found last year in The Keys. I kept 3 of these and gave the rest away as gifts.

intjonny

 

[INTJohn]

Are these just lying in the srf

I found all of those Queen Conch shells either wading in about 2 to 4 foot deep water or spotting them on the bottom while kayaking or while snorkeling. Most were found snorkeling in 4 to 7 foot deep water.

intjonny

 

[user 29855]

I found all of those Queen Conch shells either wading in about 2 to 4 foot deep water or spotting them on the bottom while kayaking or while snorkeling. Most were found snorkeling in 4 to 7 foot deep water.

intjonny

Thank you! I have never been snorkeling, but finding treasures such as those has put it on my bucket list.

 

[INTJohn]

The following pix are of shells found years past.

Above: Keiners Knob Whelk found at Canaveral National Seashore.
Below: Lace Murex found at Lover’s Key



Above: True Tulip found at Long Key.
Below: Sand Dollar found at Hunting Island, SC

 

[INTJohn]

More Seashells!!

Above: A very large Lightning Whelk found at St George’s Island State Park.
Below: Banded Tulip found at Lover’s Key.



Above: Horse Conch shells found at Lover’s Key
Below: Largest Alphabet Cone I’ve ever found. Found at MacArthur State Park, Fla


More seashell pix on the way!
intjohnny

 

[user 22017]

The Keiners Knob Whelk (found at Canaveral National Seashore) is very pretty.

 

[INTJohn]

………..and More Seashells!


Above: A Doghead Triton found at Avalon State Park, Fla
Below: An Atlantic Distorio found at MacArthur State Park, Fla



Above: A very large Knob Whelk found at Edisto Island, SC
Below: Lions Paw shells found at MacArthur State Park, Fla



Above: Brilliantly orange colored Horse Conch also found at MacArthur State Park, Fla.

More seashells on the way……..
jonny boi just plain livin too good!!

 

[user 22017]

Do you have a favorite?

 

[INTJohn]

Do you have a favorite?

Idk Maybe the last one I just found?
ain’t sayin, jus sayin
jonny boi

 

[user 22017]

Idk Maybe the last one I just found?
ain’t sayin, jus sayin
jonny boi

It's a beauty. Which is the rarest you found so far?

Have you seen Beach Combing Magazine? So many beautiful shells and all found in Florida:

https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/amanda-s-way-of-shelling

 

[INTJohn]

It's a beauty. Which is the rarest you found so far?

Have you seen Beach Combing Magazine? So many beautiful shells and all found in Florida:

https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/amanda-s-way-of-shelling

Most shells aren’t really “rare” perse’. But some are harder to find washed up on shore in one piece than others and no, haven’t seen any shell mags. I have my 2 reference books noted somewhere previously in this thread.
I would much rather be on a beach looking for shells living & experiencing my own life than reading about someone else’s life & experience.

jonny boi livin the dream!

 

[bullfrog !]

^^^keep the sand between your toes!

 

[INTJohn]

Also, I want to add I have yet to post pix of shells found on this current trek. The shells shown so far are from my shell pik archives.

Have found some really preemo ones too but first have some other pix to post yet.

intjohnny feelin beachy & sunny

 

[rruff]

Ok; I’m officially declaring that my hobby on the road is looking for seashells.

Sounds like an excellent vocation!

 

[INTJohn]

and sometimes I find interesting stuff on the beach that isn’t seashells………


Above: this large sea turtle skull about the size of a basketball along with the entire skeleton revealed in the dune at Grayton State Park after a storm.
Below: sea bouy washed ashore on St George’s Island by Hurricane Sally.



Above: an old “medicine” bottle over 100 years old found at Long Key buried in mud by a long ago storm.
Below: an old 3 cent “Florida Store” milk bottle; over 100 years old found near Fernandina Beach; it too mud buried by a long ago storm.



Above a broken projectile point found at Virginia Beach on Chesapeake Bay beach.
Below: Projectile point found on Edisto Island Beach


Kool stuff, eh? Yes, it is.
intjonny

 

[VanFan]

Above: this large sea turtle skull about the size of a basketball along with the entire skeleton revealed in the dune at Grayton State Park

Love Grayton, although they were planning to pour more concrete to "update."

 

[INTJohn]

Above pik is of a complete albeit separated manatee skeleton I found several years back while exploring the mangrove edges on a low tide mud flat estuary near Black Island not far from Lovers Key. (From the Not Seashells Dept)

intjonny

 

[WanderingRose]

When I was at Edisto a few years back, a fellow camper had walked up to that inlet between the beach and the protected area at Botany Bay, and came back with an entire spear point, minus its shaft.

 

[rruff]

What did the spear point look like?

 

[WanderingRose]

A spear point.

About 5-6” long, minus the shaft.