Venus Comb Murex Seashell

Venus Comb Murex Seashell, Murex pecten or Murex Nigrospinosus Sea Shell Collection

Venus Comb Murex Seashell, Murex pecten or Murex Nigrospinosus Sea Shell Collection
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A Wentletrap Seashell

This is a Wentletrap, small, often white, sea snail with a porcelain-like appearance including an intricately geometric shell architecture.
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I have always found the structure, designs, colors and symmetry of sea shells so amazing to me. This is a Wentletrap, from the Dutch word (wenteltrap) meaning spiral staircase. Wentletraps are usually white, and have a porcelain-like appearance with an intricately geometric shell architecture. These snails are sometimes called “staircase shells”, and “ladder shells”.

Great Blue Heron

A Great Blue Heron was flying over Lake Apopka. Lake Apopka is the fourth largest lake in the U.S. state of Florida and is located 15 miles northwest of Orland.

Great Blue Heron Flying over Lake Apopka, Florida
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Great Blue Heron Flying over Lake Apopka, Florida
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Great Blue Heron Flying over Lake Apopka, Florida
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Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse

The Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse has an octagonal iron pyramidal tower that was built by the Russel Wheel and Foundry in Detroit Michigan in August 1905. The lighthouse stands 132 feet high and the construction is held together with bolts, there are no welds. The] iron piping is held together with 192 special cast iron joints and 80 tension rods with turnbuckles. The light is a bivalve Fresnel lens that emits a light measuring 5.5 megacandelas and is placed 135 feet above sea level.

Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse - The octagonal iron pyramidal tower was built by the Russel Wheel and Foundry in Detroit Michigan in August 1905.
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