Collecting Seashells / myLot

Philippines

May 28, 2016 8:34am CST

Do you find collecting seashells a passion? Collect different kind of seashells and corals and display or put them in the cabinet or bottles. I have a few collections that until now I have. Some are taken from other places but mostly are taken in our beach. The photo above is not my collection but just a photo from one store selling this collection of shells. But it cost much. photo is mine

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Raine38

@Raine38 (12389)

• United States

28 May 16

I used to collect them when I was a kid but I was not able to properly store them so they end up breaking or getting lost. Now that I am older, I prefer taking pictures of the shells instead and storing them digitally. I once experienced in Thailand that another tourist tried to take home a shell from the beach as a souvenir. He was fined because it turned out that the shell is from a protected and endemic crustacean and harvesting it, even just the shell, is punishable by fines.

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Tokz

@ilocosboy (45156)

• Philippines

29 May 16

Yah, even in Boracay, Philippine where many beautiful shells are sold in the beach, but passing the airport security is the biggest obstacle, you will be fine when they detected the shell.

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70022)

• United States

28 May 16

Hello friend. Yes, at one time, when I lived right near the ocean, I loved to collect shells and also something called sea glass and also any number of unusual objects found on the beach. It was a past time of mine, very calming to me. Now I do no longer have these objects..had to move and could not take them with. Those shells there are very pretty.

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Tokz

@ilocosboy (45156)

• Philippines

29 May 16

yes, they are beautiful, I should have buy them, but I have that kind in my collection

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