IFP columnist and shell expert featured in Outer Banks Visitors Bureau video

Island Free Press columnist and professional beachcomber Kristin Hissong recently shared her expertise and love of shelling through a new video released by the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau.

The video includes a couple of tips for determining the best beachcombing conditions, as well as the importance of picking up trash as well as shells, seaglass, and other more natural finds.

The video is above and can also be viewed on the Visit the Outer Banks’ Facebook page.

For a sample of IFP columns from Kristin Hissong, click on the links below:

• A Beachcomber’s View: The Ram’s Horn
• A Beachcomber’s View: Olives and Augers, Wentletraps and Worm Shells
• A Beachcomber’s View: ‘You just gotta go, and you gotta pick it up’
• A Beachcomber’s View: A Closer Look at the Scotch Bonnet
• A Beachcomber’s View: Purple Seaglass
• A Beachcomber’s View: The Unusual and Extinct Ecphora Shell
• A Beachcomber’s View: I Like “Big Chunks” and I Cannot Lie
• A Beachcomber’s View: We Got a Glower!
• A Beachcomber’s View: Helmet Shell – “The Precious”