This what Etel and I collected in about 1.5 hours of semi-serious effort. It is quite cathartic to sit on the beach in a single spot, stare at the sand up close and search for these little shells among all the other beach debris and shell bits.

The funny (sad) thing is that once I got home and photographed our shells I realized that most of what we had collected was not very good quality...they had chips, holes, or bad defects.