Florida backwater travels
The bivalve seashells, or shells that come in two parts or halves, can be similar in appearance, but not all bivalves are “clams”. I’m not scientifically minded, but I’ve been learning the difference between the shells I collect and photograph. I’ve gathered some photos of the more common bivalves I see on beaches and in […]
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This quest began when I found two pretty, yellowish seashells on a recent beach-combing trip to Ponce Inlet. They are shaped a bit like scallops and / or arks but they contain bumps around the sides and bottom of their shells. I knew they were not scallops. Both new shells (top two in the photo […]
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The cockle shell is easy to confuse with the ark shell. Arks are the ones you are most likely to find along Florida’s east coast beaches. Both types live in the sand near beaches, so it figures that their empty shells would be washed up on shore once the mollusk dies. Arks are fairly small […]
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