Tags · turban shell

• 22-Mar-2025

  
  Turban shell progress How it started, how it’s going. Constancy The other day I found a turban shell in the sand. I’ve found a few before. That day I set it to soak in a mild bleach solution. I check it periodically. At least daily. I have a sort of constancy about it. It’s not gardening. (as in...

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• 19-Mar-2025

  
  Rides. New turban shell.

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• 28-Nov-2024

  
  Crystal Pier’s Christmas tree is up. And I found a 5 inch tall turban shell. I through it back when I realized it was a live. Thanksgiving with Kelly with family and family dogs. And killer veggies.

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• 22-Apr-2024

  
  Turban Shell Yesterday! Yesterday I found another wavy turban shell at PB. When I got home I immediately put it in 1/3rd strength bleach solution. Top left, how it looked when I put it in the back of my car, and the next 3 are after 18 hours of a bleach solution. I will soak it more with...

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• 16-Jan-2024

  
  Wavy turban shell (Megastrea undosa). Alternating soaks in a 50% bleach solution and boiling water to remove the outer brown periostracum layer over 2 days. The brown-orange-cream coloring was fully revealed at the end of that process. I found the shell at a beach I’ve been to thousands of times in my life during the super low tide that comes opposite the King Tide. There may be more unseen than seen in our world.

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