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Shell Beach is the closest stretch of sand to downtown Gustavia on St. Barthélemy, Eastern Caribbean.
There was some something about this that caught my eye. Perhaps a visual representation of never truly being stuck and having the strength to crack through our constraints.
Die Marke und Unternehmensgruppe Shell geht zurück auf die Gründung eines Kuriositätengeschäfts im Jahre 1833 im Londoner Eastend durch Marcus Samuel. Ein Großteil seines Handels basierte auf dekorativen Muscheln (engl.: „Shell“), die zur Ornamentierung für Schachteln oder als Sammlerobjekte im Viktorianischen England beliebt waren und von ihm aus Fernost importiert wurden. Der Konzern ist heute in mehr als 140 Ländern aktiv und beschäftigt weltweit rund 83.000 Mitarbeiter.
The Shell brand and group of companies goes back to the founding of a curios shop in 1833 in the East End of London by Marcus Samuel. Much of his trade was based on decorative shells, which were popular for ornamenting boxes or as collector's items in Victorian England and which he imported from the Far East. Today the group is active in more than 140 countries and employs around 83,000 people worldwide.
posed beautifully - though not in the easiest place to photograph! could this be a Yellow Shell? thanks to the mothfather for confirmation of ID.
Low tide today was at 12.59pm, so I took myself down to the beach for a wander. I spent nearly an hour and half there and it only rained once for a few minutes, but otherwise it was glorious.
For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'From the Sea.'
I brought a hand full of perfect tiny shells home from a remote beach in Bali. They are born off that coast. My Balinese friend made me promise never to say where the beach is and I never have.
Many years ago, when I first came across these shells, i thought they were deformed. I found them most intriguing and I loved them for their peculiar shapes. Since then, I have come to know them as Cardita shells which are formed in symmetrical pairs, like a clam. Many types of Carditas grow up to 5 or 7 cm long but these ones, pictured, are a maximum of 3 cm long. I'm not sure exactly which type these ones are but they were found along beaches around Wollongong, on the south eastern coast of Australia. Being so small, they are a little hard to find but now and then I come across one. It seems that their lumpy bumpiness is exactly how they are supposed to look :)