Note to readers:The News-Press and Naples Daily News have dedicated a week of coverage to shells and shelling in Southwest Florida. We are calling it "Shell Week." Our reporters and photographers ...

Six scalloped, bivalve shells consorted wordlessly beneath a tiny makeshift pergola ... At Lighthouse Beach, on Sanibel’s southern tip, I swam out as far as I could before plunging deep ...

If that happens, overloading on live Sanibel shells will be punishable by up to a $500 fine or 30 days in jail. ”Nobody`s going to be on the beach watching to see if some little old lady picks u ...

There's nothing like warm, sunny day on the beach ... little souvenir. And there's is no better place to see your desired shell than at the "Seashell Capital of the World." Southwest Florida's ...

I’ve been coming to Sanibel for decades, ever since my grandparents settled on nearby Fort Myers Beach in the 1960s and my parents bought a house on Sanibel in 2001. I don’t think I’ve never ...

But little did we know ... The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, and News-Press Audience Development Director Mark Bickel on Feb. 14 at Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel Island.