Would you have kept this seashell? 🐚⬇️ . Finding big shells on the beach like this Lightning Whelk, is so thrilling! ✨️ . As part of ethical shelling, It is important to ensure that nothing is living in or on the shell before taking it home. 🙏🏼 . This guy had lots of empty barnacles and oysters on it, but none of it was alive! 🙌🏼 . It was one of the first big whelks I found in the Ten Thousand islands and I've found many more since 🥰 . Have you found a big shell like this? Let me know in t

I'll probably never find this again 🤯 . While finding this Lightning Whelk shell us South Florida is a pretty common sight, finding an empty one with an attached operculum is super rare! 🤩 . I've never seen this before and didn't even know it was possible, but the mollusk must have just recently died in order to make this possible! . Have you ever seen something like it? Comment below and ✨️Share✨️ this with a friend who loves beach combing! . Found on a shelling tour in Ten Thousand islands F