IMG_0770 Dominica abounds in seashell treasures, IMG_0771 An assortment in our bucket, before being cleaned of sand. IMG_0773 More in our bucket. IMG_0884 Sorted and cleaned. Average size about 0.5 IMG_0886 The long pointed auger shells usually housed a terrestrial hermit crab, and we left those on the beach.  They ranged in length from about 1.5 IMG_0887 Another cleaned batch. IMG_0888 Aren't these lovely? IMG_0889 And these too? IMG_0914 We collected these in about an hour on a beach we'd combed two days before. IMG_0890 One mineral: This is from a hot spring in Soufriere in the south, on the Caribbean coast.  You can see the sulphur and limestone.