This one had to go back in the water quickly, as the conch was still in residence. I looked deep into its beady eye-stalks, and it looked like it wanted to fight me.
One valve of a juvenile.
Someone had stepped on this shell but it did not break.
The Sunray Venus is a little bit uncommon on Sanibel.
I photographed these two shells to show how amazing the differences can be between the shell of one individual and that of and another, not only in the color and patterning, or lack of patterning, but also in the degree of knobbiness or lack of knobs on the shoulder of the whorls. Pretty amazing.
Snorkeling off of Great Camanoe.
Such colors!
This one had to go back in the water quickly, as the conch was still in residence. I looked deep into its beady eye-stalks, and it looked like it wanted to fight me.
both are missing large portions of mantle