Only steps from the Provincetown Inn is this sweet little beach on Provincetown Harbor. It may have been small but it was full of lots of interesting treasures! As you can see from my photo above we found feathers (Eider duck's perhaps?), Bay scallops, Oysters, Blue Mussels, Slipper shells, Jingles shells, Quahogs, Crab claws, driftwood, Fish bone vertebra, Blood Ark shell, small Surf Clam and a seed pod. But one of the best finds was a string of egg casings from a Channeled Whelk! Here is a photo of me holding it in my hands.
It can be hard to tell the difference between the Channeled Egg Casings and the Knobbed Whelk egg casings so this time I took a section home to get a closer look. Inside I found the tiny Channeled Whelk babies...I put them in the Blood Ark so you can see them in the photo below. Here is a link that helps explain the differences: matthewwills.com/2011/05/17/whelk-egg-cases/
Here is a photo of a Channeled Whelk (left) and a Knobbed Whelk that I found when I was a kid on the Rhode Island coast at Sand hill Cove. That Channeled Whelk is one of my greatest treasures! I have not found one that size since!
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