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The earlier you go to the beach, the better chance you will have of getting the best shells before the beach gets too crowded. Watch the tides. Check tide charts for the Myrtle Beach area.
The day after a tropical storm or hurricane is usually a good time for finding shells along the beach, like along this section of beach in North Myrtle Beach.__082711__Photo By Charles Slate
In a Facebook group called “Carolina Seashellers,” a user made a post that said Holden Beach would no longer allow non-residents to come to the town with the purpose of sea-shelling.
Sand dollars (also known as sea cookies or snapper biscuits in New Zealand and Brazil, or pansy shells in South Africa) are species of flat, burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. Some species within the order, not quite as flat, are known as sea biscuits. Sand dollars can also be called "sand cakes" or "cake urchins". [2]
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum opened to the public in 1995, and operates as an information and reference center for national and international scientists, students, and shell enthusiasts, particularly those who are interested in the marine, terrestrial, and freshwater mollusks of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.
Beachcombing in Suva, Fiji Beachcombing at Belle Isle State Park in Virginia, United States. Beachcombing is an activity that consists of an individual "combing" (or searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest or utility. A beachcomber is a person who participates in the activity of beachcombing.
The Registry of World Record Size Shells is a conchological work listing the largest (and in some cases smallest) verified shell specimens of various marine molluscan taxa.A successor to the earlier World Size Records of Robert J. L. Wagner and R. Tucker Abbott, it has been published on a semi-regular basis since 1997, changing ownership and publisher a number of times.
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