We’ve had a few cool days recently (60’s is cool here) so I decided to take a trip over to Smyrna Dunes Park to search the beach. And it turned out to be a very interesting shell-collecting afternoon.
In fact, I hit the seashell jackpot! One of the shells I found is called a White Baby’s Ear (Sinum perspectivum). I’ve never found one before!
Hopefully you can see the tiny lines on this shell that make it interesting. It’s more of a gray color, but I put it in the afternoon sun to get the photos.
The swirl of this shell reminds me of the Shark’s Eye, and it is related to the Moonsnail, which is a smaller version of the Shark’s Eye. The Baby’s Ear looks like a flattened moonsnail.
The other version of the Baby’s Ear is the “Maculated Baby’s Ear” which has some brown streaks. Â It’s always fun to find something different, but this shell is so tiny it would be tough to find another. Â It was pure luck I noticed it in the sand. Â It’s almost exactly the same color as the beach sand.
Many of the great shells I found recently were found because I stood still in one spot and really searched the beach around me. Â They would be very easy to pass by while walking.
