I stated several times that one of the big problems in FL is the
renourishment of beaches where hundreds of shells and being pumped out
of the ocean onto the beaches....well here is what was in yesterdays
paper:
 
"Panama City Beach - A renourishment project is providing beachcombers
with a bonanza of shells of all kinds and calibers.
In addition, dredges are bringing up gun shells expended during military
training exercises in or over the Gulf of Mexico.
Beachcombers usually have to wait until low tides after storms to find
fresh seashells, but the dredging is providing them with relatively
untouched specimens in the sand being pumped from offshore to restore
severely eroded beaches.
The $21.5 million renourishment is about 40percent complete and on
schedule, said Rafael Castillo, a quality control official with Great
lakes Dredge and Dock Co. which has been doing the dredging work."
Florida Today, Tuesday, December 1, 1998.
 
AND very soon the scientific shell collector will be told it is their
fault because the shells are gone.  What a crock!!!
 
--
Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.
Specializing in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells