Sanibel Island, Florida

[lavendertook]

Here's some pics from the couple of days I stayed on Sanibel Island last week, collecting shells like a mad shell collecting thing:


Morning light on the beach. Why Sanibel Island is a beachcomber's paradise.


I got up before dawn--a feat that is astonishing to those who know my not-a-morning-person essence--carrying a little flash light to hunt my intrepid prey under the cover of nightfall. My prey being empty shells--I don't like taking the live ones, even though that's what real collectors go for.


White shores are calling. Two days were not enough.


And all will turn/To silver glass/A light on the water . . .


Why do the white gulls call? Well, sandpiper's really--they prefer text messaging.

Comments

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Are you just going to be there for one day? It's been a lot of years since I've been to Cape May but it was nice. It is more gem strewn than shell strewn. There are lots of little pieces of clear quartz among the little stones on the beach that are called Cape May Diamonds. If you have time, the Cape May Ferry takes you across the mouth of the Delaware River to a little town in DE called Lewes, that is very cute. I't snto that far north of the place in DE that I have pictures of at the beginning of the scapbook gallery that you looked at.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

That all sounds wonderful, Lavender, but I don't know if we'll have time to even walk on the beach. After flying to Phillie and then driving to Cape May, we're just hoping to get there before it's dark! The next morning we go to the training center for breakfast, then a presentation to families, then graduation, then away we go back to Philadelphia to catch a plane. It's not much of a visit to Cape May, that's for sure. But I've heard Cape May is pretty. Many years ago my parents rented a condo in a big high rise on Bethany Beach, which is not that far. It was a great swimming beach, as I recall, but not much for shells.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Bethany is right near the beach I was talking about. For some reason that beach is very good for shelling--Bethany and all beaches around it don't compare.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Lewes? Is that near the beach you mean? It's interesting how different the beaches are, shell-wise, even though they're in a continuous line. Guess it goes to show how different the shore is *under* the water, where we can't see. Well, I should take a look at your photo album again. :)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Lewes I think is a little north of Rehobeth. The beach I have pics up of are a little south of Rehobeth but north of Bethany. Yes, you're right about differences out there, but also slightly different angles of the shoreline itself brings different tides.