Was Florida Really Under Water?
Posted July 29th, 2007 in Animals & Nature.
This morning my wife and I were adding some Lantana flowers to her butterfly garden.
While digging the holes for the new flowers, I ran into a pretty large sea shell. We typically find small shells when digging, but this was the biggest one that we have found so I decided to take some pictures.
Is this proof that Florida as under water in the past? I think it is, but I suppose at some point sand could have been moved from closer to the beach to where we live and used as construction fill. I doubt it though. Our house is in Lake Worth; about 9 miles from the Ocean. The house was built 6 years ago and was an empty field before that. 6 years ago it would not have made any sense to move fill from the coast inland as coastal land is obviously much more expensive.
The sea shell is not a part of my wifes butterfly garden.
The shell is now a part of our butterfly garden, as seen below