Dear BH;-
The key (and I shouldn't even be telling you this) is to check the latest
high tide line. There, amid the "coffee grounds" one can find the lighter weight
shells, Eps., Olivellas, Dentallum, etc. You gotta get sand on your knees.
Art
Becky Horning wrote:
> Dear Conch-ers,
>
> My husband and I just returned from Sanibel and found our first wenteltraps,
> as well as several other new shells. We enjoyed shelling there so much and
> I owe much of our enjoyment to information from conch-l. We are fairly new
> to conch-l and just simple shellers; as illustrated by our little wentletrap
> story.
>
> We purchased a Sanibel guidebook while there last May 2 where we first saw
> the lovely wentletrap. I just had to have that shell so we biked up to
> Lighthouse beach and searched early, late, and in between. Finally, on our
> last day I decided to break down and buy one at the shell shop near Rosie's
> grocery. When the proprieter reached behind the jewelry counter and showed
> me a cup of teeny miniatures, I knew why we couldn't find them. I bought a
> few and triumphantly showed them to my husband and he found one on his own
> in about two minutes! We found quite a lot more and went home to Port
> Huron, Michigan happy shellers.
>
> I had heard from this list about how wonderful Sanibel is and I fully agree.
> Even without the shells, the other wildlife is incredible, the people
> exceptionally friendly and helpful, and just generally beautiful.
>
> Rebecca
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> >Subject: about those wentletraps - WANT TO IDENTIFY each one found on
> > SANIBEL
> >Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:06:33 -0700
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> >Vacationing with my family here on Sanibel. Found numerous wentletraps on
> >the beach. Having a great deal of difficulty differentiating AMONG them.
> >How DO we tell a lamellose wentletrap from a humphrey one? As a neophyte,
> >we have no trouble finding the wentletraps but we are having a very tough
> >time figuring out what is what. If the shell is cream colored and the ribs
> >are white, is that guaranteed to be a lamellose one or is there no sure way
> >of knowing? Even among the wentletraps that appear to be white, it is very
> >hard to see the differences. HELP. Thanks to one and all.
> >
> >rita grant - at the Sanibel library's public computer area
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