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This fiberglass shell has been sitting on the roadside for years. Can you guess what it is? Hint: the car model is decades old, but has been picked up by other manufacturers long after the demise of the original company.
Answer: a Studebaker Avanti. Seen in Fallston, PA but gone as of August 2011.
Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
A panorama of a nearly whole iridescent shell I found while walking along Fort Myers Beach. Merged from a series of photos around the shell to create a wider and higher res shot. Biggest challenge as getting the shots before the next wave came in and changed things around.
Photographed with Sony Alpha A6000/ICLE-6000 with FE55-210 lens. Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Photomerged and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
London Olympic Park, Stratford, London UK. Cars designed to travel as far as possible with just one litre of fuel apparently.
Perhaps because seashells are so inappropriate in a rainforest mountain garden, they appear randomly and unexpectedly in ours
I have added a canopy with LED lighting to my model garage so I can emulate a set-up at night. This is my first attempt, and it's not perfect, but I haven't tried such a thing before and was inspired by others I have seen.
The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Uadaypur sea beach (3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 100 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India
Florida boasts some of the best shelling in the United States! Large 5x7 postcard available for trade.