Dear Martin, Thank you for your encouraging information. My husband is very interested in visiting the beaches at Normandy, so this would work out perfectly. I have always wanted to visit Mont St. Michel, but everyone says it is soooo touristy so maybe I won't get there. I really appreciate your help! Thanks.....Jennifer >From [log in to unmask] Fri Oct 16 02:03:41 1998 >Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by mailgw.cc.uga.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 5:03:32 -0400 >Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 2326; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 05:02:47 -0400 >Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) > with spool id 7846 for [log in to unmask]; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 > 05:02:45 -0400 >Received: from UGA (NJE origin SMTPIN@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) > with BSMTP id 4468; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 05:02:45 -0400 >Received: from keppler.hhs.nl (145.52.2.5) by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) > with TCP; Fri, 16 Oct 98 05:02:43 EDT >Received: from sggmmail.sggm.hhs.nl ([145.52.69.3]) by keppler.hhs.nl with > esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) for [log in to unmask] id 0zU5i2-0001d2-00; > Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:58:06 +0200 >Received: by SGGMMAIL with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id <TZ5Z7GQG>; > Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:04:21 +0200 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) >Content-Type: text/plain >Message-ID: <5BCF89A1C026D211910200A02459C474042AF9@SGGMMAIL> >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:04:18 +0200 >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Cadee M.C." <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Great Britain (and across the Channel) >To: [log in to unmask] > >> ---------- >> From: Jennifer Hanhila[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: donderdag 15 oktober 1998 16:14 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Great Britain (and across the Channel) >> >> Dear Conch-lers, >> I have certainly enjoyed reading what you all have to say to one >> another over the past two months. What it really has done is open my >> eyes to the fact that I'm not the truly scientific type. I greatly >> admire those of you who are on faculties of universities, etc. You >> (all, not just the professors) have a wealth of knowledge that is so >> impressive. >> I'd like to repeat a request for some information. We'll be >> leaving for England on Wednesday. I'm still hoping that someone will >> have some shelling info. that might be helpful. As I previously stated, >> we're very open to travel in England (all parts), Wales,and Scotland. >> We also intend to cross the channel to visit Normandy. Do you have any >> ideas about those areas? >> I have heard from some of you, and to you I say "THANKS!" You know >> who you are. >> Another query....do you know of any lists that just regular, >> amateur collectors like me (about shells, of course) subscribe to? I'd >> like to correspond with shellers who might enjoy something as simple as >> collecting NICE beach shells, or ones that you snorkel for >> in shallow water. >> Thanks for your help and advice. You are a MOST IMPRESSIVE group! >> Regards from, Jennifer Hanhila (Phoenix, Az) >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> > Dear Jennifer, > > You can find quite a lot of shells in Normandy. I had good results >in Hougate, if you can find some shell-grit. Moreover ther are much valves >of Acanthocardia echinata on the beach. If yoo go to the east fou find an >enormous cliff (les falaises de les vaches noires) where you can find >jurassic fossils, and the landscape is nice. >I collected on Omaha-beach and on Utah-beach, the latter yieds much >Pandora-valves. These beaches are on the north of Normandy. >In the West I collected on the beach of Surtainville, where you can find >numerous Patella ulyssiponensis. There is a large rock-system before the >beach that is accesable at low tide (please keep in mind that the >differences in waterlevel are up to 10 m!). You can find several molluscs >there on the rocks e.g. Trivia monacha and Patella intermedia. French are >hunting there for a meal of "fruits de mere". >In the bay of Mont St. Michel also shelling is possibel, I collected in >Cherreuix (just in Brittany) where very nice specimens of Ocenebra erinacea >can be found. The cretaceous cliffs in the north-east of Normandy >(Dieppe-cap d'Antifer) yields only a few molluscs, but the cliffs are >spectacular. > I hope you can do some good shelling! > Martin Cadee > leiden, The Netherlands. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com