Add this to the list: We spent a week at Folly Beach outside Charleston in August. There are ALWAYS coquinas going up and down the beach with the tides. This year: Nothing--Nichavo--Nein! A few dead halves at the high tide line. AND fewer of the shore birds that usually feed on them: Pipers, Stilts, etc.
   No panic. Maybe they'll be back next year.
       Maybe I will, too.
           Art


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---- "June E.Bailey" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was down on a Sanibel beach last week, and I too noticed the great number
> of live and fresh dead Donax variabilis.  Many more than I have seen the  last
> few years.  About 10 or 15 years ago they were like this on Longboat  Key.
> So perhaps it is just a cycle thing.  Whatever it is, just  appreciate the
> beauty of the little things.
>
> June

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