>Dear Fellow Shellers,
>I am wondering if any of you can recommend good shelling beaches
>near Victoria, B.C. and/or near the Port Angeles, Washington area.
>Thank you in advance.
>Joellen

Victoria (at least as it was in 1973):

-Numero Uno is the Ogden Pt Breakwater near Beacon Hill Park. Low
tide, look between the granite blocks. With luck you might find
Puncturella multistriata or Cranopsis cucullata there. Diodora
aspera, Calliostoma ligatum, rarely C. annulatum, Ocenebra lurida,
Ceratostoma foliatum, Nucella spp, rarely Fusitriton oregonensis. Try
not to step on the Amicula stelleri.

-Margaret's Bay, Gordon Head. The rocks south of the extreme east end
of the bay, when in sight of San Juan Island. Turritropis cancellata,
Granulina margaritula (a colony in algal muck covering a low steep
rock face), columbellids, Lamellaria stearnsi, Velutina sp, Ocenebra
interfossa etc. On the strand at the east end of the beach itself:
washup micros.

-Oak Bay Marina: lie on the edge of the floats and look for gaudy
chitons, huge Pododesmus, large Turritropis.

-Gonzales Bay: in the middle is a large rock with a big tidepool in
the upper surface. Crepidula adunca lives there.

Further afield:

Patricia Bay, Saanich Inlet... Polinices (Euspira) lewisii.

Sombrio Beach, past Jordan River, up the W coast... broad tidal
platform. Live Opalia borealis common; rare Epitonium tinctum & E.
indianorum.

Botany Bay, near Port Renfrew (up the west coast) - great variety,
especially nearest the road end, where there are surge channels.