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Types of sand dollars, pictures and information pertaining to sand dollars.
We finally went boating and luckily it was low tide along the river. This is the best time to search the sand bars for sea life. Today, I found a living sand dollar! I believe this is the first time I have ever come across such a thing. Because I can’t see in the bright […]
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As I was walking the beach at Ponce Inlet, scanning the blowing sand for a new seashell to collect, a woman walked up to me. She asked if the shrimping boat over in the river was stuck. Her hair was white and her face was brown. The brown of a person who spends lots […]
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The Legend of the Sand Dollar poem and the Christmas season both have Jesus in common. There are a few varieties of sand dollar and the legend seems to have been written about one in particular – the Keyhole sand dollar. The Keyhole sand dollar has 5 holes in it where the anonymous author of […]
Read More…I recently had a reader ask me if the treasure she found along the beaches of Sanibel, Florida was a Sea Biscuit. I have a couple of sea biscuits, which are puffy sand dollars, but I didn’t find my large one, I bought it at a shop years ago. I may have found the small […]
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Because I have a few big sand dollars myself, I will include pictures of the ones in my collection to highlight the different types of sand dollars you may find while beach-combing. I have three whole sand dollars, although the little one is slightly broken. We may call them shells, but they are not. They […]
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