I have also been on a shell-gathering expedition, and not just in Scotland but across the whole of the UK.
He modestly described what he was doing as "gathering shells whose meaning was often obscure or illegible to me".
His family is gathering shells in the shallow tidal pools of Pegwell Bay that, with the receding waters, have a look of barren desolation.
At night I dream of… the sea crashing against the shore, a zombie gathering shells weeping, rivers winding through forests of strange masked creatures and girls laughing in the trees.
Trained and skillful technicians spend their working days 100 feet below the ocean's surface, gathering shells and oysters from the sea floor.
Like beachcombers gathering shells, BEA visitors cruise the aisles of displays, picking up freebies.
He was born beside the sea – almost literally, for his mother's birth pangs began when she was walking along the shoreline under a pale sun gathering butterfly shells.
At the moment the shell exploded, Mr. Wallace was gathering ammunition and had his back turned, a position that saved his life, as the other three men took the force of the explosion straight in their chests.
In Dara'a Province, activists said that two mortar shells fired by government forces at protesters gathering outside the Khaled bin al-Walid mosque, in the village of Busra al-Sham, had killed eight people and wounded many more, some seriously.
There are few things more pleasing to Brooklynites than gathering around Celebrate Brooklyn!'s outdoor band shell on a balmy summer night, swatting errant mosquitoes and blissing out to (mostly) free tunes.
