This is another one of my favorite seashells. It is called the Cloth-of-Gold Cone or a Textile Cone shell. I had been looking for one of these shells the whole time we lived in Guam and then one day . . . . . there it was!
There is nothing like tropical shell collecting. While living on Guam our family spent hours and hours looking for shells. Then in Sitka, where the shells are harder to find because the water is so cold, we changed our focus from shells to sea glass.
I guess it would also be exciting to find a gold nugget, but swimming up on a beautiful shell under the sea where there are brightly colored fish and coral is a fabulous thing.
This next photo is of Denalee on one of our shell finding dives out at Coral Gardens.
Denalee is in the same skiff talked about in the HARBOR OF REFUGE blog.
Here is a glass bowl of all of our sea glass gathered around Sitka. Sea Glass are chunks of glass from bottles that have been broken on the beach and then get worn down because of the wave action. Nowadays, not too many glass bottles on the beach anymore.
Our family sea glass collection.
Close-up of our sea glass.
Bryan and I searching for sea glass at Halibut Point in Sitka, Alaska.
Below is a photo of Sierra doing the same.
