Dear Vicky;
 
I have a wentletrap from Sanibel in my collection (found by my brother
during our stay at Sanibel around Easter 1996)
 
David
Belgium
 
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Vicky Zentko wrote:
 
> Art, stay out of the bars and keep flying...I for one enjoyed the pigs!!
> I was thrilled to read of the wentletrap book!  I have spent the last four
> years vacation on Sanibel searching in vain for wentletraps.  I fell victim
> to lots of propaganda that they could be found "by the lighthouse"....yeah,
> right!!  Then I heard there was a gentlemen called "Wentletrap Bert" who
> scours the beach on hands and knees with a magnifying glass, finding
> boundless numbers along the high tide mark "by the lighthouse".  Well,
> after four years, I finally gave up and bought one.  And then found out it
> wasn't even the type found on Sanibel (if there truly ARE any on Sanibel).
> I would still like to see an authentic Sanibel wentletrap, if they exist.
>
> >>At 10:29 PM 3/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>Hey thanks, Mike;-
> >>>    You seem to understand. I go to shell shows. There we talk about
> >>>shells. We buy shells. We unload extras. We learn. But we also talk
> >>>about our kids, pretty ladies, good places to eat, tomorrow's weather,
> >>> and a host of other stuff just like real people. Wev meet here on
> >>>the internet and do the same thing. We talk about shows, trips we've
> >>>been on (I just got back from a handball tournament in San Francisco),
> >>> identity of some shells, and how come Ashley has become the star of
> >>>this particular show.
> >>>   Now some of the people out there in never-land are doctors,
> >>>lawyers, retired cops and other terrible things. Me? I'm a retired
> >>>teacher, coach, and an anal retentive humourist. We do what we do
> >>>best. I stopped "collecting" when I started writing "The Wentletrap
> >>>Book". That's a serious thing to do. It will be a good thing when it
> >>>comes out later this year. But sometimes I have to fly with the pigs.
> >>>It's either that or  go to a local bar and fall in with evil
> >>>companions. What do you suggest?
>                 Art
>