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The lightning whelk is a predator. It mostly eats oysters, clams, and scallops. They can grow up to sixteen inches long. This one is about six inches...

I found one that was about as long as my foot. Kelly has the picture. Maybe I'll post it this weekend.

The black under it is its foot. There were quite a few of them out on the hunt one day.

We got up bright and early Wednesday morning to hit the farmers' market...

It seems like a different world where fresh fruit and vegetables can be bought the first week of March. The tables of strawberries smelled like heaven. I hope there's a good crop up here this year... I'm down to one jar of jam in the basement.

We went out to our favorite restaurant; the Snook Inn...

I always get the blackened grouper sandwich.  We saw a few dolphins in the river there.

We took at least one walk on the beach each day...

This was the year of sand dollars...

One guy was handing them out to people. He said he found more than seventy. Here are the four I brought home...

I went for small ones. Kelly found the smallest for me. It's the size of a quarter.

Kelly took bunches of pictures...

Those birds are ibises...

The weather was beautiful and we had a great time.