SEASHELLS!!

[rruff]

A spear point.
About 5-6” long, minus the shaft.

I was hoping to place it. Doesn't sound like a native spear. Revolutionary War?

 

[WanderingRose]

Native, stone.

Like what appears to be just a tip in #35, but the entire spear point minus the shaft that would have bound it.

 

[FlipperFla]

Native, stone.

Like what appears to be just a tip in #35, but the entire spear point minus the shaft that would have bound it.

Check out a site called Treasurenet.com then go to North American Indian Artifacts and lookup a member named Newnan Man check out his Florida Points. This guy is a Arrowhead Ninja he will be able to ID it for you.

 

[INTJohn]

I researched this when I first found my projectile point on Edisto Island.

The Edisto Tribe made projectile points in a style known as The South Carolina Hardin Point which is only a slight variation from the Classic Hardin Point.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322243011_The_Southern_Hardin_in_South_Carolina
https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Hardin.html
INTJohn

 

[INTJohn]

And now it’s seaglass time!

Ok I’m not big into seaglass so I’m really picky about picking it up. My criteria is it must be very “frosted” and the edges must also be worn & rounded no matter the color and if there is some kind of lettering on it, well that will always catch my attention.

Also, it helps a lot that the beach is so lacking in interesting shells that I get so bored that I actually consider picking the stuff up in the first place. I’m really just not that interested in the stuff. But there are exceptions like the mosaic piece below I found at Canaveral National Seashore.




Above are some more rare examples because they are blue in color.
Below an interesting piece because of the lettering.



Above & below are random pieces found I don’t remember where or when. The 1 above reminded me of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and I might have a jeweler make it into a pendant necklace.


Above & below are pieces found on my current trek. The pik below also includes several specie of sea beans.


Nuff seaglass for awhile.
jonny boi

 

[INTJohn]

Back to seashells……..

Above are a couple dozen knob whelks collected at Edisto Island SC and Fort Clinch State Park Fla that were given to a friend in the Keys who makes horns out of shells. Last year she made a conch horn for me from a Queen Conch shell I found.

Sooo, I promised to bring her some knob whelks as they don’t live in the Keys; don’t live that far south. Several weex back I gave them to her when I had returned to the Keys and she gave me the large Queen Helmet shell shown below




Isn’t it awesome!? She made it into a horn for me and it has a loud bass tone similar to a fog horn or like the horn on a Great Lakes freighter.

What an amazing gift!
intjonny

 

[WanderingRose]

Olives are one of my favorite shells, and I have found them very tiny as well as this jumbo one, mostly at Edisto.

 

[INTJohn]

Olives are kool & very common everywhere and I have soooo many of varying sizes & shades that I very rarely pick them up anymore.

I’ve never understood why they’re called olives either. I call the larger ones barrels and smaller ones bullets.

My smallest one is less than an inch long and my larger ones exceed 4”. Shades range from almost black to gray, bright orange to pale salmon, dark greenish to brownish.

More shells from this current trek to come……
jonny boi

 

[vanbrat]

All these pictures are great. I love to go to one of our local beaches and find shells.
I took my kids one day several years ago in my then brand-new truck, my one and only brand-new vehicle. My son found lots of shells including one that still had a little hermit crab deep inside it. After 2 days of hot summer sun it was beginning to smell really bad and after much searching, I found it under the seat behind the slide thing. I spent the next week driving with my windows OPEN. And before anyone gets upset yes, we always look to see if a critter is still using a shell but this was a tiny crab in a big shell, and we didn't see it.
So much for the new car smell

 

[INTJohn]

Above & below are piks of a Channel Whelk found at Fort Clinch State Park. This is only the third one I’ve found of this size and in such great condition.



Above is a lightening whelk found at St George’s Island State Park.
Below shows 3 Milk Conchs and a Sunrise Tellins to the lower right along with a Star top shell all of them found at Bahia Honda Key last month. The milk conchs I found snorkeling will be even more attractive when I clean them.


johnny boi has more yet on the way.

 

[rpmhart333]

I cannot help but recall Steven Wright's great line from his first (or perhaps second) appearance on the Tonight Show back in the 80s: "I have the world's largest seashell collection. I keep it on every beach in the world."

 

[INTJohn]

I cannot help but recall Steven Wright's great line from his first (or perhaps second) appearance on the Tonight Show back in the 80s: "I have the world's largest seashell collection. I keep it on every beach in the world."

yeah, there’s always been delusional people who think they own the entire World but then late night tv never was anything but cheap & shallow comedy; part of the reasons why I haven’t owned a tv for over 30 years; but hey! that’s for another thread.

Here’s what I say:
https://vanlivingforum.com/threads/how-i-became-a-vagabond.22301/
I actually keep my seashell collection in some cardboard boxes and empty plastic instant coffee containers. Total monetary value is probably less than 300$ certainly less than 400$. The vast majority of Seashells, monetarily, really aren’t worth a whole lot; I mean all they really are is snail & clam skeletons, skeletal remains of murdered & eaten gastropods & bi-valves by other sea life. Old dead bones if you will and Geologically speaking; future limestone.

Most gastropods & bi-valves are brought to the surface by fishing trawlers. The Worlds fishing/trawling industry is what provides the products of the so-called global “seashell market”. Damn; who doesn’t love scallops!

But anyway, back to “Seashells!” As I’ve more seashell pix to post.

Coming soon!
intjonny boi livin the dream.

 

[WanderingRose]

I consider seashells a renewable resource.

 

[Carla618]

I consider seashells a renewable resource.

Do they improve the ocean floor or beaches? Like how we shouldn't rake leaves in the fall?

 

[WanderingRose]

I don’t know, but I also do leaf removal in the fall.

Surely there would be prohibitions on shell gathering if doing so harmed the planet?

 

[Carla618]

I don’t know, but I also do leaf removal in the fall.

Surely there would be prohibitions on shell gathering if doing so harmed the planet?

Not that removal harms, but I'm curious if leaving them amends the ground. Like how leaves break down and improve soil.

 

[WanderingRose]

The presence of shells and fragments likely add to the beach, I would think.

 

[bullfrog !]

Just like people right! Lol!!!

 

[rpmhart333]

yeah, there’s always been delusional people who think they own the entire World but then late night tv never was anything but cheap & shallow comedy; part of the reasons why I haven’t owned a tv for over 30 years; but hey! that’s for another thread.

Here’s what I say:
https://vanlivingforum.com/threads/how-i-became-a-vagabond.22301/
I actually keep my seashell collection in some cardboard boxes and empty plastic instant coffee containers. Total monetary value is probably less than 300$ certainly less than 400$. The vast majority of Seashells, monetarily, really aren’t worth a whole lot; I mean all they really are is snail & clam skeletons, skeletal remains of murdered & eaten gastropods & bi-valves by other sea life. Old dead bones if you will and Geologically speaking; future limestone.

Most gastropods & bi-valves are brought to the surface by fishing trawlers. The Worlds fishing/trawling industry is what provides the products of the so-called global “seashell market”. Damn; who doesn’t love scallops!

But anyway, back to “Seashells!” As I’ve more seashell pix to post.

Coming soon!
intjonny boi livin the dream.

Yeah, those damn people who try to make others laugh sure are the bane of the planet.

 

[Frood]

I mean all they really are is snail & clam skeletons, skeletal remains of murdered & eaten gastropods & bi-valves by other sea life. Old dead bones if you will and Geologically speaking; future limestone.

The more I see your collection the more I realize I'm not contributing enough to the 'eaten' side of that equation... Battered fried conch fritters... Lemon-butter white-wine sauce sauteed whelk... Garlic scampi sea-snail... Oops, I'm salivating...