Dear Karen, Martha, et al;-
   Folly, yes!  You can rent a house on the beach fairly inexpensively. I have found 4 species of the Epitonidae (wentletraps) there. Always Olives. And lots of other stuff you wont be able to identify until you show it to someone who will give it a name that may be wrong.
   My mother and grandmother were born in Charleston. Mother is 107 now. When I go see her, she knows I'm someone she should know.
   I now have 245 species of Eps. Now THAT'S bragadocio for you! Good luck at Folly. Walk up toward the lighthouse. Even if you dont find shells, the walk and the view are worth it.
      Art Weil


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---- Karen VanderVen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Martha.
>
> Suggest if you can get there, try to go out to Folly Beach, just SE of
> Charleston, and go
> all the way to end of the beach preferably at low tide.  My sister and
> I, on our way to Florida
> in 2006, shelled our way down the Carolinas and Georgia at 'selected'
> beaches.
> Folly Beach was one of them and really was pretty good.  In the tide
> pools were
> many olives, dead for sure, but if you sorted through them, could get
> some decent specimens.  At the
> very end of the beach, on the inlet side, were the most shells:
> Florida rock
> shells (hemastoma); tulips, whelks, and even dead pairs of angel wings
> we
> dug out of the muck at that particular part of the beach   There were
> also bivalve pairs
> and I think this is the beach where each of us found a wentletrap at
> the tide line.
>
> Good luck with the trip and I'll be interested in how it goes.
>
> Karen
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Martha Chiarchiaro wrote:
>
> > I will be visiting Charleston, South Carolina for the first time at
> > the end
> > of March.  I was hoping to find out about some recommendations for
> > shelling
> > in the area.  I won't have a car so locations on public transportation
> > would
> > be preferable, but I've been known to walk for miles to get to a good
> > shelling spot so I'm prepared for that too.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any suggestions!
> >
> > Martha in Massachusetts
> >
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