Dear conchlers,
 
the following story is not really a shell joke, but it happened really.
It's quite a nice story to lough about it.
 
I have been collecting landshells in the park of the famous castle
of Ambras S of Innsbruck at a small forest part and looked up
for the shells under vegetation. For collecting I mostly use an
empty box of fishfood, like Tetramin (I think you know it also in
America or elsewhere), as some tourists or other persons looked
what I was doing. And they asked me: "Do the plants really need
fishfood." As I told them I am collecting landshells they looked a
little bit silly.
 
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck
 
 
 
Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0443 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/
 
or
 
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37