In a message dated 10/19/2002 12:02:48 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > JUST GOT BACK FROM FT.MYERS BEACH. > Did you pick up some of the shells at Sanibel Island while you were there? I couldn't believe the number and variety we saw when we were there some fourteen years ago. What I couldn't believe was the number of people who were collecting living sea snails and killing them for their shells. There were plenty of unbroken shells just lying around, with the animal already either shed or dead and gone, so that people didn't have to kill a living animal. Oh, well . . . that's just me . . . Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr