Hello Everyone,
I am enjoying very much the shelling stories that have been posted this
week....I haven't had the chance to travel near as much as I would like
to, so hearing about your trips has been wonderful. I really don't have
an "exotic" location story but as shellers, perhaps some of you will
smile with my story as what we'll do to have an adventure to find shells...
On my  first "real" shelling trip, to Eleuthera in 1988, I was having a
wonderful time just being with other shellers. One of my most memorable
stories came with our excursion to Surfer's Beach, on the Atlantic side
of the island. We had some basic directions but we were pretty much just
winging it. Well, Asa told us we could take the rental cars anywhere on
the island, so we found what looked like a road that would hopefully get
us to the beach, or at least close! The "road" was so narrow that our
car scraped by all the bushes and little trees. The air conditioning
didn't work so we had the car windows open.......some of the best shells
I found that day I collected from inside the car as they were knocked
off the bushes as we passed by. I have slides from inside the car and of
the live snails crawling on the seats that  I have shown in my
classroom.....if nothing else, my students get to see what fun shell
collecting can be!!
Vicky Wall
North Carolina

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