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…
Category: Sand Dollars
Types of sand dollars, pictures and information pertaining to sand dollars.
Christmas and The Legend of the Sand Dollar
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 as it references the holes in it. I don’t have one, so I’ve added…
Sea Biscuits On Sanibel Island?
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…
Types of Sand Dollars
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…
