She shells sea snails by the seashore

My mom and I went here:

during low tide to catch some of these:

 

by sticking our hands in a trench like this!: 

Okay, it was really more like this... 

but it still seemed counter-intuitive to haphazardly stick my hand in crevices between these igneous rocks:

We caught a whole bunch of these sea snails and brought them home to boil and eat them.

Directions for eating sea snails:

After boiling the sea snails and sterilizing a needle for eating purposes, stick the needle in as far as you can and stab the little snail (sorry, buddy!)

 

Then spin the needle around in the same direction as the shell's spirals:

 And voila you have a ready-to-eat sea snail! I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine.

Most snails have a little hardened piece of shell attached to the foot for protection--make sure not to eat it!