2007 COA Annual Convention
August 01- 05 Portland, Oregon
Monarch Hotel - early morning wake up for low tide shelling
Oregon is home to many giant redwood trees
The Oregon coast at low tide
COA shell collectors busy among the rocks exposed by low tide
Green sea anemones and mussels
Lots of regulations to protect Oregon beaches
The regulations include strick limits on the numbers of live seashells collected
It looks like the small coastal communities cater to visitors
COA pres Hank Chaney opens the convention, he is so good he can do it with his eyes closed
Joyce Matthys was our host for the 2007 COA convention
John Mellott was our moderator and emcee
Folks having a good time at the welcome dinner
More folks having a good time at the welcome, except Bruce and Tom who look like someone ate their dessert
More folks having a good time at the welcome dinner
Audience attention was easily gained by blowing a conch horn
Left is Dr Jose Leal director of the Bailey Matthews Shell Museum & right is Dr Fabio Moretzsohn who provided these images - both gave presentations
Dr Felix Lorenz signs his book during a cowrie identification session
One of the presentations was on farming the geoduck (Panopea generosa (Gould, 1850)), the largest burrowing clam in the world
Another presentation was on predation in the mollusk world
Dr Alan Kohn discussed cone taxonomy
We all got very used to walking through the connecting tunnel between the rooms and the convention center
A corner of one of the tables in the bourse with a giant (fiberglass) Cypraea asellus
Of course there were lots of shells on display
Brian Hayes from South Africa with his shells on display
On the plane leaving the convention and a view of a couple of the Oregon mountains above the clouds
