BillA
Bronze Member
I understand people who collect sea shells are called shellers, I have a question.
between my house and town I walk ~1/2mi of beach, and having no detector in hand I look for interesting shells
for me shell recognition involves color and/or shape, and most shells have distinct colors and sometimes an associated shape
but some rock fragments can have the exact coloration, and even some shape elements
- to the point I bend over to see it better/pick it up, and . . . . it is a rock
over time/tides I will see the same rock over and over, and I chide myself for getting suckered again and again
is it common to repeatedly mistake the same rock for a shell ? (some I have named)
between my house and town I walk ~1/2mi of beach, and having no detector in hand I look for interesting shells
for me shell recognition involves color and/or shape, and most shells have distinct colors and sometimes an associated shape
but some rock fragments can have the exact coloration, and even some shape elements
- to the point I bend over to see it better/pick it up, and . . . . it is a rock
over time/tides I will see the same rock over and over, and I chide myself for getting suckered again and again
is it common to repeatedly mistake the same rock for a shell ? (some I have named)