Come with me on an Island Sunset Adventure: Seashells, Sea Creatures, and Stunning Views!

hello Beach friends this is just one of the fabulous seashells we're going to find today as we explore key Wen Island yes we will need a boat to get to and from Key Wen and we'll spend four glorious hours searching for beach Treasures I'm actually not a fan of spoilers but I have to let you know that the island is going to be beautiful the shells are going to cooperate and since it will be low tide the critters will be around to entertain us as well so if you're ready to start our island adventure let's go to the beach [Music] [Music] okay so after a quick boat ride we are here on key Wen it's so pretty out I cannot wait to start exploring so I did choose this day because the tide was going to be going out so I did come here purposefully knowing that the tide would be coming out increasing my chances of saying hi to Critters and seeing more seashells a crown conch those are great shell when they're in good condition this one unfortunately has been knocking around for a little while so we're I'm going to leave that there but I'm not worried I suspect there's going to be quite a few awesome Treasures I will admit I'm looking for some cones that I do have cones on the brain orig big lightning welks I mean that would be fine too so this is a rather large lightning Welk but it's not in great shape it's kind of missing its top so I'm not yeah it's pretty heavy in the trip yeah maybe if it was the last shell yeah so this time you know sometimes I keep them sometimes I don't this time I'm going to leave that for somebody else all right where my cones oh so nice and clear this is a beautiful base Gallop gorgeous color but it's missing a little piece of it so I'm going to leave that here I love checking everything out I don't necessarily keep obviously I don't keep everything could you imagine how heavy my Chell bag would be but I do like checking out a lot of different things and then I kind of pair it down and show you guys what I think is the most interesting things I found this particular day that is a lightning Welk much smaller than that big honken one oh it's great the nice size the Tail's a little broken I don't care it's great that is a fabulous lightning well now you will notice there are lots of seashells here a majority of them are the same it is called the ponderous Arc and for whatever reason I thought ponderous meant like to wonder like Ponder but it doesn't ponderous means of very great weight unwieldly or clumsy because of weight in size or oppressively or unpleasantly D oh man what the ponderous Arc I now I actually feel bad for it I didn't know I thought it was more like the wondering Arc yeah little did I know erroneously assumed that so this shell right here that is a striate bubble little bubble shell very common and as I was admiring that look at the way that that Apple M just kind of Blended in oh that's a good one of like the orange variety beautiful Apple mirx oh true tulip so true tulips are so exciting because they come in really great colors this one would I call that fire engine red I don't know we we'll go with red oh it's great such a true tulip it will get I don't know good three times that size they get much bigger than its cousins the banded tulip a a sand dollar so that is a 5 pole Keyhole sand dollar that will go in my delicates container if I put that in my pocket it'll be like dust when I get home so that goes in a little container okay so I got a little resistance when I tried to pick up that Apple mirx yeah all right it is hanging out with The pous Arc maybe it'll make the ark feel a little bit better I still can't get over ponderous so I had a little uh fighting con and a lettered Olive there oh yeah this was fun it was just s they're waiting for me so that's an alphabet cone and I am psyched because that's one of the shells I was really hoping to find when I came here all right there is a kitten paw stuck on the aperture that is okay oh it's great what do you see do you see any words maybe yes eek I don't know fabulous fabulous alphabet cone all right a little lightning wel and oh it's alive I am so sorry buddy so I hate hate when I do that I Disturbed it I didn't mean to I yeah sorry friend so that is a living lightning wel the animal is not done with its shell yet so we're just I'm just going to kind of tuck it in a little bit I'm so sorry and try to be a little more careful when I'm in inspecting these seashells well this one I don't have to be too careful with it's just literally sitting there screaming My Name another alphabet cone oh it's awesome right the alphabets yeah letters aren't quite as spectacular as that last one but nice size beautiful alphabet cone oh there's a couple things here okay where am I going to start the lightning wel and then i' be real careful okay good yes safe wow that's like perfect beautiful lightning wel oh that's terrific what else we got probably going to at at a minimum I know I'm going to at least pick it up yeah that is a Florida Fighting Conch bright orange gorgeous but a little soft it's been kind of like rolling around here for a while all right what do we probably just a piece yeah that is another piece of a true tulip it's of other little pieces and that another piece that is a piece of a fighting conk and then of course like we I I said all of those ponderous arcs those are here all right what else shut the front door oh it's a little BB one so that is an Al Another alphabet cone oh the little ones are so darling Oh that's terrific yay alphabet cone number three boo yeah so the garbage that I can carry I remov that was actually I was pretty excited about that because it was kind of heavy yay it's going to make my total go up so yeah I'm going to definitely remove that lump of glass off the banded T yeah that is a banded tulip I'm not going to keep it some fighting con here yeah got of packed in oh there's a bandid tulip can't I don't know if I'm going to keep that or not okay this this little shell now this is a crossbar Venus clam it is so ubiquitous that I barely even picked them up and I was thinking wouldn't that be funny if you go to the beach and you see all all of those shells they're literally all over the place and you have no idea what it is because I never talk about it so those are crossbar fenus clams this is a cog so this a little more you know just common not quite as fancy they're here I know what they are I just you know I don't spend a lot of time talking about them I'm more excited about the shiny pointy Bright Beautiful colored ones oh like this that is the Florida State shell the Florida horse conch look at the color on that oh that's great that is an awesome Florida horse conch next we have oh that is fabulous as well it is a canis that is a ribbed caneris and I am checking super good to make sure it's empty I do be very I doie I am careful when I'm shelling in the water to make sure that I don't bring any hitchhikers home so the banded tulip is a voracious eater and it does eat other things it would appear that it is eating that augur so I'm just going to yep just going to let things do their let nature do its thing and I'll just go ahead and hold onto that banded tulip okay little slippery very slippery lettered Olive oh look at how big and shiny and pointy yeah I'm really lucky the olives we get over here are pretty pristine this is so funny so this is a Santa Bel turd I have never found one on Santa Bel I've found all of them off santel not even on Fort Meers Beach all the ones I the santel turds I find are all down here are in the 10,000 Islands but that is a santel turd oo Gody natica or a colorful moon snail I adore those seashells that's great love the color beautiful colorful moves now all right T yep tide is going out quite a bit I can see some of that sandar is starting to get exposed now so just going to meander up that way maybe say hi to a couple of Critters right here is a Florida prickle cockle ooh oh this one goes almost yeah like orange purple orange with that little bit of yellow yeah I do like those that's a Florida prickly cockle Calico scallop they come in all different patterns the scallops I got today were actually quite great that one had a weird little bumpiness going on the inside but not the top it's just kind of kind of funny that scallop all right now we're going to say hi to some Critters so we have two fighting conks here so they're they're just chitchatting okay I'm just going to leave you guys alone I'm not disturb you what about what are you doing what are you doing so when we go to the front of the shell oh you could be a little model because this right there that is called the stroid Notch and only conon have that it's a little Notch that's a little eyeball comes out of it's actually a great shell design the animal stays on the bottom but their little eyeballs can still kind of see what's going on up top yeah they just kind they're unburying themselves oh look at this cute little critter yeah it's not that Cur yeah it's hiding it's not curious so that is another little we can kind of see the underside of our little our friend here so that little end of the animal that's called its operculum so that little amber colored like sickle shaped thing that is its operculum and I you know what I kind of think that they're called fighting conks because of this whole moving thing so it is trying to get me to let it go and and I will not to worry friend we I just wanted to say hi so there you go I think that's probably why I mean nobody really knows why they're called fighting but I suspect that's probably a good reason see what I the scallops today were great so that is another Calico scallop I don't even care about the little pinhole because the color is so fabulous great little shell and look at this one the color on this one yeah I I don't even know what to like I don't know how to even describe that pink color it's so pretty beautiful Calico scallop oo what else do we have all right I see a lightning walk put you Apple mirror and you're empty oh look at how angular oh you're beautiful and okay lightning wel empty yeah so another pair of gorgeous seash lightning wel and an apple YX all right Tide's going out water is nice and clear I feel like I have the place to myself I know that I'm not alone here but it really feels like I am so it really feels like this really kind of exciting Adventure I'm out here I have the whole place to myself and boy oh boy am I happy and I'm and I'm grateful and when I think about grateful I think about my patreon so I just wanted to thank you for even considering supporting me I really really appreciate all that you do for me because it's not just the monetary support it's the idea that people actually want to see more of my content and I've been trying to be a little better about posting more on there so patreons from the bottom of my heart thank you okay something else to make me feel grateful for it's just being here looking for more seashells so that was abandoned tulip that's another fighting conck okay and all those ponderous arcs that I feel terrible about their name oh hello so this is okay so the animal's body is over here oh and I see it little tentacles and that's and and that's it that's it yeah okay fine you Rain on My Parade Apple Mir that's all right anybody else want to come out and play what was this let's see okay that's another apple mirx and so the front of the shell is kind of like the bottom I guess and and no all right but here here's like the snail super highway so in the front we have a banded tulip and they are as I said before they do eat other animals the fighting Tonk in the back look at it little eyeball keep it an eye on that um banded Tula I thought that was hilarious see the Florida Fighting con they are algae eaters so I'm kind of picturing like a gazelle watching like a lion cross the Savannah so that was really fun oh and this cutie pie and this we're going to see how good their eyesight is so here we go look at how cute it's little eyes popping out there okay and then we see the operculum on the bottom and I move and watch its eyes they they go right back in the Shell well yes see like just like that yep so I had pretty good eyesight I mean it definitely was you know obviously protecting itself I was surprised it's pretty good eyesight Oh yay L tide what else are we GNA find beautiful view yeah I still got the place to myself there was no boat of uh shellers dropped off here luckily cuz then I can just kind of like wander up on my fourth alphabet cone oh it's so pretty any word I'm looking for I see any words like awesome fabulous no no just just regular standard alphabet cone shark eye so this is a moon snail call them shark eyes and it would appear that that a shark eye ate this shark eye yes they eat each other they're cannibals oh this is a false shark eye the true shark eyes do not have that little gouge out area all right false shark eye oh see what I mean about those scallops so that I mean I don't know what else to call it eggplant color so this is a Calico scallop once again gorgeous all right I have been neglecting the rack line let's just go Peak to see if I should have been spending more time up here hello fighting conk oh you're kind of pretty but you know the fighting conks are a commitment yeah you yeah that's not you're fine I'm just going to grab you you really got to commit fighting Ks are heavy I'm pretty picky with those another ponderous Arc okay great they're down below two CR bar Venus clam we already talked about those saw lightning walk Atlantic giant cockal okay kind of your run-of-the-mill what would you call it like your your standard shells your Cog okay pretty much what I expected which is why I didn't spend a lot of time up here I just feel like the closer I am to the water I get a better crack at the good shell I don't know it's just beautiful beautiful but yeah I want to be down here down here by the water all right looking a little chunky so I wanted to kind of what what is there chunkiness here no it's mostly just those arcs oh except for the Sand Dollar oh that's beautiful all right I think I'm going to go look for a couple more sand dollars and be quiet and let you have some beach time perfect more sand dollar another sand dollar and that I that'll clean up just fine I'm going to pop that in hydrogen peroxide along with that first one I found let's see if I can put anymore oh I see something chunky up there all right I'll be looking for sand dollars but I see a lump always check out the lumps always always always you never know this is a shell as we can see it's a very big horse con but but it's a peekaboo shell kind of see in the middle fabulous once again I'm not going to keep that but always check out the lumps you never know so at this point I'm probably not going to head up the beach anymore I'm probably going to head back down to the point and see what other shells maybe I'll go back into the Cone Zone I don't know we'll see wow the Tide's really gone out awesome surf clam we haven't picked up one of those yet today I like them they're very opaque unless you kind of hold them up to the sun in which case they kind of turn almost like see-through it yeah I just think they're kind of fun surf clam oh excellent another sand dollar yep terrific that two will go into hydrogen peroxide oh lettered olives so I I guess that's what these little critters must do so when the water is on top of them they really are just below the surface so that's a letter all of you I wasn't sure which end of that little Trail the Critter was on but when you see the sand kind of dug up like that yep that's a lettered Olive and that's a lettered Olive alive living lettered olives hiding in there somewhere Okay cool so we got to see fighting conks Apple MCS the lettered olives these are not going to pass the mustard yet they're broken so we're going to keep moving let's see what other is it going to be shell is it going to be friend what's what's up next friend some shells just look so good and I kind of have a feeling that they're alive this was one of those instances so this is a juvenile Florida Fighting Conch but it's it's like spikes were pretty big and I had a feeling it was going to be alive that is a reddish Egret oh and they're easy to tell what they are because they flop around do that awesome dancing but I got closer and it stopped dancing which was kind of a bummer and they also will come in white they call it a morph so they will be kind of a reddish color and they'll also be white oh a lace MX with its cute little pink protoc conch and we'll talk about that at the end of the video but that is a little lace MX and this is also a lace MX but it has a host so a little hermit crab has claimed this Finders Keepers that's all the crabs going to do sometimes they do a weird jumping thing where they kind of come in and out yep pretty lace Merck's friend but it's all yours here you go but two things Channel duck clam and a worm snail you know this particular Channel duck clam the white one it they're kind of thin I wish they were thicker oh that's okay so they're pretty shells but they're just they're very thin I like a nice hearty shell and we get doovers down here yeah I dropped my worms nail no big deal I'm just going to pick it up again if we had like a real surf going on no such look now where I am right now I believe there's a sandb behind me so the water is very very calm oh until you're able to spy that other colorful moon snail so this is colorful moon snail number two awesome hello Critter so you know this really just kind of got me thinking I want to pick it up because I want to see it better but I also don't want to disturb the animal so I really it's kind of a I don't know what to do this is a lined sea star they're really really beautiful and I'm going to kind of go halfway on this one I'm going to just turn it over under the water isn't it beautiful with that feathery little leg so those are going to help it move around so put that lined sea star back but yeah you know I like to say hi I like to see them but I don't necessarily like to disturb them so it's hard it's a choice oh more garbage excellent that piece of brown glass can hang out with the Green Glass oh here's another great shell the tinted caneris I just when these are in good condition this is one of those shells like if it's not great condition I so don't even care when it's in good condition it's so great I think so anyway yeah they kind of grew on me the tinted canther is and the turkey wing I don't know why the tinted caneris is called such this is called turkey wing I'm pretty sure because it looks like a little bit like a wing the turkey part I don't know I'm not a turkey wing expert but that shell is called a turkey wing or a zigzag Arc this is a yellow prickly cockle oh some of them are like white on the inside some of them are that solid yellow gorgeous so that's a little yellow prickly cockle it's a some moon snail no that is a slipper that I thought was a moon snail they used to trip me up so much I'd gotten better but apparently they can still get me so that's a gotcha it's a slipper that I thought was a moon snail broad ribbed cardida now when I'm looking for alphabet cones these will trip me up the spots and I end up picking up quite a few of them hoping they're alphabet cones but broad rib cardida but oh the Atlantic giant cockle I like to call them Beach bowls that one I'd say it's like a beach cup yeah a giant Atlantic cono really pretty shell oh little coina the hinges on those are pretty strong I think from all the shells I almost always find those hinged but not this time we have a little purple coina and a butter cup Lucine I think is that full fat half fat let's see yeah I'm going to say it's pretty good full fat Buttercup Lucine yeah those are neat shells another by Valve okay so I can tell I'm kind of shelling my way back to the boat at this point and I can see all the escarpment so that'll happen from the tides kind of pulling away the beach quickly and so you kind of get these shelves and I got news for you man you took one wrong step you were going for you're going for a little swim okay here is another shark eye okay that is a true shark eye it doesn't have that gouged out area there so that is a shark eye or moon snail your pick old tiny little worm snail fun little Jasper cone and a little lettered Olive and it was hard not to miss the dolphin playing behind us in the channel so yeah there's a couple of bottlenosed dolphins and that blurp I think that was a manate I never saw it we got to see the dolphins but not that big bluring thing I don't know what that was and they apparently were hanging around for quite a few hours I would not have known that because I was too busy looking for seashells but it's always nice to get the opportunity to see these animals as you're coming to and from the islands it's not every time but it's always a real thrill let me get to see those bottle-nosed Dolphins now I quickly wanted to pop back up on the Gulf side of the beach and I found this egg casing that is a pear Welk egg egg casing I'm afraid that there might be little shells in there so I'm going to keep it I'm going to bring it home and we're going to look at the very end of the video If there is indeed anything in that little egg casing so my time here on the island is finally winding down key Wen was everything I had hoped for very fun I always have fun frankly and then I get treated by another little boat ride back to the marina how did I get here I always always tour with Ally with swfl shell guide this particular tour was unguided so Ally wasn't with us but if you know it's an option you can go guided or you can go unguided now today I did remove a little bit of garbage 9.4 o which means in total I've removed a little over 51 lbs of garbage from the beach pretty cool and I removed a couple other things too so there was those sand dollars the egg case some Sunray Venus clams some colorful moon snails the shark eye the turkey wing the mossy Ark the broad rib cardas the worm snails I see yellow prickly cocko the little cone the bubble the augur in the Atlantic giant cocko the floridity prickly cockos the surf clam the channel duck clam the Buttercup Lucine those are calico clams the one lace MCS the Apple Ms the Leed olives oh the scallops are such great colors so the scallops uh the banded tulips and yeah there was a couple of those and then the fighting con which are always awesome and then kind of my favorit from the middle here the lightning wels that true to the alphabet cones that Florida horse conch and then the canis cuz I like them so much and the sandbell turret so you know like I said overall it was fantastic so many great things now quickly let's take a peek so inside that very dirty pear Welk yeah look it baby sh okay that's better so she can kind of see it can you believe that and then for fun I went ahead and threw a lightning wel shell in there just for size look that's a lightning Welk shell crazy right so that's how those the lightning welks and the PA welks they start out as little itty bitty Proto con and that's what's going to appear at the very top of the seashell yeah I know the the beach is just like like a classroom for me it's amazing next week we are headed to Lovers Key super fun can't wait to share I'll see you again next Sunday