Thanks for the story, Joni. As Paul Harvey used to say, "Now, for the
rest of the story". What did you find on Sanibel then ? (curious about
those perfect, deceased specimens !)

Karen

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Joni Inkwindi wrote:

> I'm in Southeast Florida, and I've been going to the beach every morning
> looking for "goodies", to little avail. Floyd actually built up our beach a
> little. Two good hurricane stories from last year - after Georges, my beach
> was covered on day 1 with fish, on day 2 with stinking fish, gorgonians, and
> shells!  I learned to love the smell as I piled perfect orange & yellow egg
> cockles, large tuns, hawk-wings, and queen conch "rollers" into my shell bag!
> In Nov. I was on Sanibel when Mitch decided to come thru - you would have
> laughed to see all of us out by "the Rocks", pulling perfect, deceased
> specimens from the surf and wet sand.  It was an extra low tide, and the
> winds were blowing from the East - so there was more beach exposed than usual.
>