tortuga’s banded tulip shell
On March 1st, 2009 | Filed under happiness, pensacola beach, seashells, the wife | 
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a couple weeks ago we were out on the beach early one sunday morning. it was warm and the water was nice. we had the dog with us and were walking up and down the gulf when we happened upon a section of beach with a LOT of shells in the water.
as we walked around, lise got into the water just a bit and was finding a lot of the same old stuff.
and then she yelled. LOUD.
she had found a Tortuga’s Banded Tulip, intact, and a little over 3″ long. an amazing find!
this is one of those “holy grail” shells for us. we’ve seen very small ones, and have been teased with hundreds of “pieces” of this shell. it’s very thin and delicate, so when they do actually make it to the shore, they’re typically beaten and crunched against the sand and other shells by waves, broken into pieces.
needless to say, this was a very neat find!
