World Sea Shell Collection – Bag Of Mixed Seashells From The White Sandy Beaches Of Sanibel Island, USA

With the abundance of seashells found on Sanibel Island and Captiva Island, collecting them has become a favorite pastime. In fact, so many people go shelling when visiting the Islands that the bent-at-the-waist stance one takes when bending over to retrieve a seashell has been dubbed ‘The Sanibel Stoop’. The islands are littered with shells, like some magnificent work of shell art created over thousands of years. When islanders dig gardens in their backyards, they find conchs, whelks, scallops and clam shells often perfectly intact. The best shelling is found on the beaches of Sanibel Island & Captiva. The islands rank tops in the world for shelling because of geography. Sanibel Island is shaped in a curve along the coastline among a string of other more orderly, straight-and-narrow islands. The east-west torque of Sanibel’s south end acts like a shovel scooping up all the seashells that the Gulf imports from The Caribbean and other southern seas. Please note that the image shows the selection of just one of the bags of shells donated to us, having been purchased during the Sanibel – Captiva Shell Show, organised by the Sanibbel-Captiva Shell Club. The club was formed to exchange information in the field of conchology and malacology, to foster public education and intelligent conservation, and to encourage and support studies and research activities in those fields. Please note: Although we can see no damages to the contents, as they are packed together, there may be one or two chipped items