Beachcombing Report: Ivory Tusk Snail

Beachcombing Report: Ivory Tusk Snail

They didn’t look like much at first, just a scatter of white slivers along the tide line. At a glance, they could’ve passed for fish bones or bits of plastic, the kind of debris beachcombers often overlook it. But a closer look revealed something far more interesting: ivory tusk shells. Within minutes, I had gathered nearly 40 of them from a short stretch of beach. Meanwhile, people walked all around me, completely unaware of what lay at their f…