Life has a lot to Offer

Yesterday, my husband urged me that we should walk on the shore as he said, “it’s a beautiful day,” and I said, “sure why not.” At around 4:00pm, we walked on the shore before sunset. While were walking, we saw a bunch of pen shells washed on the shore, but at 1st I found a live one and I said to him, we should throw it back into the water as I felt bad it might be dead and we did throw it back. Then, were a little bit farther from our condominium, we saw tons of them, perhaps thousands and others still alive. I cannot believe it was a lot washed on the shore and I have not seen it like that before for almost 4 years living here right on the beach. I was amazed and some of them I peek at them and they sometimes close (scared of me-lol). While I was peeking some of it, I found out the color inside has a a bright golden-orange mantle. I have not eaten or seen people eat like that before, so, I asked my husband if it can be eaten and he said “yes.”

I searched online about pen shells, and I have learned that it can grow up to 2 feet and occasionally it contains black pearls. Speaking of black pearls, might the pen shells washed on the shore that we saw yesterday contains black pearls since a bunch of them are on the shore now, maybe I’ll check them tomorrow if those pen shells has black pearl inside (lol). Anyway, pen shells on ancient times, people used to eat it as food and pen shell are related to mussels but meat is similar to the scallop.