With their wide stretches of sand, the beaches along North Carolina's coast are perfect for social distancing - the new normal in 2020. And while social distancing may have cancelled traditional ...

Maybe collecting shells is a favorite pastime of yours, but you don't know which is a moon snail and which is a mud snail. Or, you're walking along the beach, and something shiny catches your eye, but ...

My daughter Abby Campbell and I were walking on the beach in California in 2023. She stopped to pick up something that looked sort of like a bubble on top of the wet sand. It was a piece of sea glass ...

Ask people who have strolled the Gulf Coast beaches of Florida and they'll tell you "shelling" is a serious pastime, with thousands of beachgoers sifting daily though miles of shells left behind by ...

Having recently spent several quiet days on nearly empty beaches along the New Jersey shore, I was taken by the beauty of what had to be millions of broken shells and fragments scattered along the ...

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Incidentally, if you want to know how to get the best seashells by the seashore, visit Wrightsville Beach after a hurricane. Just hours after Dorian wobbled away from ...

Shelling doesn’t really have a season – whether winter or summer, seashells still wash ashore. But if you ask anyone who enjoys shelling as a hobby, they’ll typically recommend the fall and winter ...

Robert Muir works in the cultural heritage and tourism industry. Nathan Brooks English does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...