We are back in Key West this evening after several productive days of shelling on Sanibel. We ended up with enough plunder to fill two 5-gallon buckets on this outing. This will help re-stock son Nick's SanibelShellsCo Etsy store where the orders keep rolling in.
The shell piles were enormous on one of the beaches so, it was part Easter egg hunt and part looking for needles in haystacks to find the good stuff. Could have used a backhoe.
On one of our outings, three separate people asked me what I was digging for. Each time I replied, "Sea shells." Two kept chatting. One walked off. So, I was 1 for 3. Not great. Not bad. Happily, there were very few people on the beaches the past couple of days. So, we enjoyed great shelling and great solitude.
After digging through piles of shells for several hours, you tend to work up an appetite. So, we hit the local favorite, Doc Ford's daily for a late lunch/early supper. The cobia fish and chips were too good to pass up. As Don Jr. said the other day... Making America Healthy Again can wait one more day.
On the other hand, chasing after Henry and O.G. has caused me to drop about 10 pounds from my office days. So, I think I'm already headed in the right direction. And, Crystal keeps pumping me full of supplements and organic foods whenever she can.
It is a bit depressing to see Sanibel in its current state. Hurricane Ian from two years ago and the two hurricanes that touched the island this past fall have the area looking like a nuclear disaster occurred there. It's similar to seeing areas out west that have been devastated by forest fires. It will take a generation for things to get back to normal, assuming the island isn't in the path of more hurricanes in the coming years.
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