Stone crab season opens October 15th, so we have loaded up three crab pots and dropped them along our dock filled with bait. We scored this nice grouper head from our local fish market.
Monday, October 17, 2011
After a 24 hour soak
Our first pull on a pot and we were excited to see this huge conch clinging to the side!
We later identified it as:
The horse conch (Pleuroploca gigantea), also known as the giant band shell, has been Florida's official state shell since 1969. This shell is native to the marine waters around Florida and can grow to a length of twenty-four inches. Young horse conchs have orange-colored shells; adults have orange apertures.
We also caught our first crab of the season, not huge but it looks tiny next to the horse conch!
Betsy identifies what we found in our shell book (also note her first missing tooth!).
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