Shelling the 10,000 islands. Seashells, critters and beautiful view!

hello Beach friends welcome to the 10,000 Islands a paradise nestled along the Florida coastline where Nature's Treasures await I am a huge fan of these treasures and so I don't mind getting up before the sun comes up to drive over an hour down to the marina so I can get on a boat and look for Treasures but look what I'm rewarded with the Moon is still up in the sky the water is like glass it's absolutely beautiful and then I get to Dickman's Island and so for the next couple of hours I'm just going to hunt around looking for seashells and creatures and whatever else I might find okay our first treasure all right this appears to be a lightning wil it's got a couple of barnacles on it yeah I'm not going to keep that but I'm pretty sure my shell bag isn't going to be empty in addition to going to Dickman's Island we're also going to make a stop over on kis Island and it's going to be so fun I can't wait to show you my new most favorite Fighting Conch so if you're ready to see what else is out there for us today let's go to the [Music] beach so we have so much fun ahead of us so I've been up for a couple of hours now I came on this particular day because of the tide The Tide is going to be kind of low in the morning so I decided to hop on my Shelor and come down we stopped at Dickman's first and then we will be going over to kis yes there are so many sand dollars here I can be picky if it's broken I can just wait until I find one that's not broken oh a Cayenne Keyhole Limpet it's got a little bit of beach stuff on that little shell but isn't that fun so that is a Cayenne Keyhole Limpet oh I see a piece of a horse conch and it's like a good size I'm just trying to try not to get my uh my coat wet oh well it is a piece of a horse conk I wasn't wrong but yeah I'm not going to keep that not today we have a top snail terrific that is a JuJu be top snail I cannot resist them every time I see one I pick it up I can't help it actually there's a lot of shells like that so this is a juvenile Fighting Conch my favorite shell I'm ready to commit I'm doing it fighting conks are my favorite shell and that is a juvenile one and it's really cute so that's awesome right one of the cones we can get so this is a Dusky cone we have your Florida cones your alphabet cones there's a couple others but your Dusky cone that's a third one whoopsie didn't drop it yay so that's a little Dusky cone this is a serth a dark serth these I just like them they're very beaded beautiful I wish they came bigger but that's just about as big as they're going to get sometimes they'll be lighter and darker it's called a dark sarth but for all intent and purposes they're going to look like that now here's a little horse conch so we picked up that broken one here's a wee little one it's a little baby horse conk excellent we'll put that in with a tinies hopefully I'll find all right so this is alive so that is a living lightning wel oh and that's kind of exciting because once those bubbles move out of the way look you can kind of see his antennas there and there oh that's neat yep so that's a little critter doing its thing you can see it's big black foot and you can also see the front of the shell the skinny part you can see a little piece of black that's the animal also coming out of that siphonal Canal for you shell nerds shell nerds unite all right sand dollar I would keep that even though there's a little bit of stuff on it that doesn't bother me the break the I like them to be whole I don't like them to be broken it's just how I roll everyone collects differently and that oh it's pristine so the sand dollarss we have typically have five keyholes in them so they're called the key five hole Keyhole sand dollar these are also called Keyhole urchins because sand dollars are urchins so what I'll typically do if I know I'm coming here I kind of get it out of the way I kind of go and I get all my sand dollars just because the container I have has a lid so I'm putting them you know I'm taking the lid on and off so I kind of just get all my sand dollars and then I can kind of concentrate on the other things this was awesome so here we have a hermit crab so I actually think there's a blue-eyed hermit crab and a big red hermit crab I think this is a big red hermit crab it just hasn't gotten all big yet it's checking out this other shell as if perhaps it will change like so it looks like it might be ready to exchange shells and that is so exciting I've seen it on TV where they kind of Swing their little butts out now it also kind of reminds me of something that's been circulating a lot for a while these stories of these hermit crabs using plastic and garbage for um shells because they can't find shells that takes place in Japan you'll see there it says Japan not here in Florida so in Florida we're very lucky our hermit crabs do not have any problems finding seashells so when I take a seashell I am not taking the home of any hermit crab so for y all who have been with my channel for a while I know you know that but perhaps from some new people you may not know I do want to thank you I mean it's awesome that you're advocating for Critters don't stop doing that I'll by all means advocate for the critters but again the um hermit crabs down in Florida don't have any problems finding shells now this one is really interested it's cleaning it out and I just keep waiting are you going to switch buddy what are you going to do it's very intent and I did oh I just thought May no so really interesting but ultimately I don't get to see the Critter switch shelves because I know I'm on a shell Tor and I don't know how long I could stand here for could be hours I thought no and he wasn't going to do it oh man well hermit crab good luck to you best of luck to you and a spoiler we do run into this little crab again so we'll we'll see what happens to that little crab here's another Critter this is an apple mirc now I know it took me a minute that is the front of the shelf so it feels like the back is the front oh and I can kind of see stuff coming out from the top I've been trying so hard to record this animal where it's not just like a bunch of Goo like I'm trying to see so I kind of see like two tentacles like there maybe there's eyeballs and eye stocks I don't know oh no it's going back in the Shell darn it well interesting though that's how it protects itself so it's going to go back in its shell it has that little disc it's operculum that helps protect it I dig a little hole with my foot there you go friend just good luck all right what else we going to find another top top snail oh what am I chasing well there it is a white Atlantic semile so I give it a quick check and that is alive so that is not something I can collect a white Atlantic s what oh tiny little lightning Welk very nice it's a little top snail little lightning Welk so maybe there'll be some good tinies we'll see oh now a colorful moon snail that's one of the shells I really look forward to finding when I come down here one of my favorites so that is a common augur and I look very well when I check the or I check the shells really well when I get them out of the water to make sure there's no little crabs or Critters in there that was a beautiful augur there's another one and I got a couple of pointy things here oh hold on that is a lad horn snail okay so we have already seen an augur we've seen a serth and this is a lad horn snail so a little different but we do right there sth on the left then an augur on the right and then that third lad horn snail so those are all different shelves that are kind of shaped similarly okay this is a piece of a worm yes I know it's a piece of a decorator worm or a plume worm and these Critters they encrust themselves with shells this is an old shot look there there there and there you can see them on the beach and then also in this shot yeah there so this again this was shot previously and someone asked me what is that it's a piece of a worm I know it's kind of creepy but yeah that's a piece of a decorator worm I've been trying to film it where I can actually like see its head so maybe in the future we can actually see the Critter oh well hi beautiful so this is my favorite shell I'm committing it's the Florida Fighting Conch just one of them oh the Dr boy Notch oh it's so lovely all right so that's my favorite not the most favorite that we'll talk about later there's our hermit crab friend now remember he was in a shell kind of a thin lip and look it changed shells oh I missed it but still kind of exciting oh that's that's awesome See No Lack of shells down here for you and then I was H are you going to come out and say hi maybe just a little oh they're so beautiful so it doesn't have those bright blue eyes so again that's why I think it's a smaller version of the big red big red hermit crab don't know for sure either way beautiful creature kind of exciting I didn't get to see it change shells maybe one day maybe one day in the future I'll get to see that but still kind of exciting that these little creatures out in nature are out there doing their thing rock on Little Crab oh it's the bottom of a moon snail so let's see are you oh you're intact oh I love a good moon snail you are beautiful nice size it's hard finding those bigger ones and the aperture the opening is like perfect well very hand some shell very happy about that lovely moon snail oh there's another one but this is the colorful moon snail oh yes oh you're so pretty those like tiger stripes on it that's the colorful moon snail also known as a Gody natica so that particular shell has two names so I'm up here kind of on the up on the higher rack line just kind of looking everything looks kind of white and all of a sudden something looks a little different that's because it is it's a baby ear oh a baby's ear it's broken you know what though that's okay because the break is totally on the back so that is also in the moon snail family and it's called a baby ear or baby's ear I love that and I know it looks like I'm here by myself but I'm not there is a boat of other people kind of Meandering around the island so this Dickman it was looking a little flat I know I've been kind of mentioning that it's been a little more challenging to find seashells this winter they're definitely here it's just very different going to have to put a little more effort into it and that's okay for me totally worth it an egg cockle oh dear oh and I wanted I wanted that first shell so yeah let's look at this so that's a little scallop um it's discolored it's been buried and it's black not the usual color and then we have the egg cockle but I did want it so I have that little scallop and then a very cool egg cockle awesome look at this so this is also a Calico scallop but it's I haven't found one of these in a while it's like glowing it's so orange I mean just look at that compared everything else is very muted oh beautiful and that's just the little things that kind of delight me okay so we have this beautiful Orange Shell another little orange jingle that little shiny piece is called the jingle and this is a slipper snail well you're really cool it's a slipper now a slipper is a gastropod uh but it does not spiral interesting right so most of these shells will kind of spiral that's an apple MX and all fighting K yeah you're okay I mean you're still awesome but I probably just won't collect you we hold on to the Apple MCS and the snippers snail now that yeah it happened jellyfish I don't know what kind is pretty big though if I had to guess I'm going to say that that was probably oh about 2 feet across maybe big old jellyfish and I feel bad I wish I could kind of just like somehow get it back into the water but I know with jellyfish it probably just doesn't work like that now this little weirdo so we call these freak shells and they're very desirable it's Miss it kind of grew a little so the animal was injured something happened to the shell and it just kind of grew a little bit weird like we call them the freak shells I love them so that's a little freak Fighting Conch oh little oh golf oyster drill so cute not as cute as the rib canther is but still very cute okay that's another one of those Dusky cones a BB hole in it oh here's a little mrix yeah it's a little I think it might be a lace miric it's hard to say if that's a lace or a I'm going to go with lace I think it was a lace mircs oh a little true tulip excellent so the tinies are showing up for me cool always looking for wle traps when I talk tinies but that's a little true to a and a Flor a cone that is the the hard kn life shell the Florida cone always a little bit beat up oh my gosh look how pretty oh we have some lettered olives oh wait a minute I want to take a look at that yeah that lettered Olive shell is like broken and then repaired it's still very shiny and it's pointy but just got like this weird I don't know that I necessarily call that a freak but just a little little break in it almost kind of interesting colorful moon sand lettered Olive nope oh didn't pass the shine test so here we have I love I just want to kind of what what do your stripes look like all right you're pretty nice and I love that's nice and white on the bottom compared to the other oranges and Browns the colorful moon snail all right that is a little lace mirx oh it's darling Oh it's so cute with its little pink protoconch the little T Top This was kind of a bummer for me it's some sort of I assume it's soft Coral oh it was really neat I would have liked to have collected it actually but there was some oysters on there something something that it was a living creature or what I assume is living so I will not collect it anything that's living in my humble opinion should stay at the beach actually in some areas it's illegal so just as well look at the cute little moon snail so that's an itty bit I mean it's so tiny and so cute oh and they get to be quite big and interesting look at that compared to the bubble so the striate bubbles are really kind of known for being a smaller shell and it's a twice the size of that little oh speaking of little that little moon snail look how darling so another little a little baby sand dollar with some other little baby shells oh so cute oh the beach is awesome and I never know what it's going to be H yuck all right so I take the garbage off the beach but I hope that the next thing will Delight me another yeah it does color for moon snail all right you're pretty awesome yeah yeah I'm going to you're definitely you know looking really good color for moon snail oh here's a very good example of the lad horn snail that first one we looked at earlier was kind of broken neat little shell right don't normally find them down here interesting so that's a lad horn snail and just like that we're done with Dickman's just like that Dickman's was awesome but now we're on kais so we're going to beach comb kis and see what all is here and it's going to be different you're not going to find as many sand dollars you I probably will find more of those colorful moon snails which is yay well hi Apple MCS oh that's beautiful oh it's also occupied so that is not collectible Finders Keepers a little crab got it first and little crab is not going to come out I don't know that that's actually a hermit crab that might just be another like one of those little PE crabs or something but either way Finders Keepers you get the shell and I'm sure there's another empty Apple M somewhere here well that's a shell I haven't said yet the banded tulip that is a nice little gastropod that I do like finding oh there's another one of those limpets so that's the second Keyhole Limpet Cayenne Keyhole Limpet very cool excellent let me look at you yep I don't know there's a little bit of beach stuff on you but that's okay oh nice rich brown colors oh beautiful and for those of you that don't know love bleach that will clean up that beach stuff no problem this lightning walk was very dry I could tell it it's it was very parched it needed some water so made sure to get this now the tide will be coming in yeah there you go friend hopefully you know it protected itself and that animal will get hydrated and it will be okay I'll just take this little Fighting Conch while I have it another lightning Welk awesome that one's empty what well so yeah there's no lack of shells here just a matter of kind of pick through oh gorgeous gy oh really liking that one let's put a couple Barnacles again bleach is your friend oh spiny jewelbox and it is alive so that will need to go back in the water yay another colorful moon sow even though it's not that colorful I have I just really like them so I I keep a lot of them oh another darling little lightning W so nice little pile to kind of drop by speaking of dropping by we put you little spiny Jewel box and let's do a check-in so it is lovely Tide's coming in it's 69 it's not hot it's not cold it's absolutely perfect and I'm on an island looking for seashells does it get better than that oh sorry so that is living earlier we had seen that black foot of the animal it's called the foot so okay the lightning wel and the spiny jewelbox they can hang out together waiting for the tide to come back in here's a nice little smattering oh another Gody natica one of those okay so it's looking kind of in between so we're going to talk about it in a minute there's another colorful moon snail that's reminding me of it not to worry we will talk about it that is a pawelk real pretty looking pawelk nice white I second favorite color oh a tinted canus you are very fun little shell I like the tinted canis and the ribbed caneris wasn't sure lace mxs I thought I might have been going for that Sunray Venus clam but the lace miric and there we'll go ahead and grab that too okay so for my bird loving Beach friends I saw a woodpecker and so it's kind of hammering away we're going to listen to it for just a sec so yeah I am a big Critter fan and so I even found that kind of exciting to kind of see the Woodpecker as I'm out on the island looking for seashells you never know what's going to pop up okay so this is a different kind of moon snail so the that other moon snail I kind of go bananas over to me this looks to be exactly the same shape with a different color variation however it has a completely separate name called narus viie now when you look this up the narus verie that's how it's spelled under the Malisa base they don't consider that an actual different species it's unaccepted okay I went over then over to worms which is the world register of marine species and same thing they're saying unaccepted it's not a different species but people way smarter than me have said hey we're going to call this a different species so I'm just going to call it Vera's moon snail so that's what I'm going to refer these snails as the Vera's moon snail so that'll be the colorful moon snail yep even though sometimes they're kind of like half and half like every now and then I'll find one that's kind of like half and half and that's what leads me to think it's not different but you know what I'm just going to call it is moons now that is Atlantic giant cocka didn't take me too long to fix the name of that so those are big I like to call them Beach bowls I love them with that beautiful cranberry color on the inside oh kis now this I used to call The Cone Zone because I mean that if you wanted alphabet cones you just kind of like walk around in the mud down here and you will find them now somebody else called it the trip strip which um yes if you're ever coming here wear very good shoes it's a different I just there used to be tons and tons of alphabet cones and all sorts of different stuff and it's just kind of different this year not to say that they're not here it's just different so this is an alphabet cone I normally down here would find like the chocolate ones that one is in okay condition definitely going to keep it just a little different than what I'm used to so here's another one here's an Hard Knock Life Florida cone they're always just a little bit oh aperture on that one's kind of nice the Florida cone oh we have have we seen one of these today I don't think we have that is a paper fig tiny little paper fig they get bigger maybe three times that size but that's just a little version of a paper fig and that is a ribbed canis and I'm very excited because the last orange rib canis I found had a hermit crab in it and I was not able to keep it but this one's empty so that is a ribbed canis it comes in kind of different color variations I really like this orange one it's a little more rare very neat and I know it kind of looks basic right but that is an alternate ton kind of fun I don't know what is appealing to me about these alternate Talons but I do think they're kind of fun another another byy valve an angel wing have not seen one of those today either I kind of feel like you could classify the angel wing as a fan favorite so the beach is changing a little bit but what doesn't change is its beauty so I'm going to be quiet for a minute and allow you to have some beach time so yes out here there is 360° of Awesomeness it's beautiful when I pick my head up when I keep my head down it's awesome I'm finding little shells like this common nutmeg and that was not effective all right just trying to knock all that sand out terrific just make sure it's not broken a cute little common nutmeg there's another one of those colorful moon snails but doesn't have that oh there's a Vera's moon snail so here we have we can kind of see them right next to each other yeah for me I mean for me they look I they just look identical they the shape is the same I mean just the color is just what's different but that's okay I'm still going to go verus moons now now this my heart stopped I'm like oh my gosh you're beautiful and you're kind of purple all right you're not albino you're definitely albinistic and oh oh you're purple oh and I'm like freaking out like oh going to wash you off oh wait what's this a top snail I told you I can't resist the top snails all right still marching down to the water let me rinse this off see how beautiful this white fighting is so it's mostly white oh it's so pretty it's like pink and the aperture is purplish pink oh my gosh it's so pretty and then for a hot second I'm like oh a minute is there in what is in there so I'm really just no I'm safe okay it's just kind of like wood and stuff no Critter anything oh my gosh that would have been such a bummer holy cow oh it's so pretty but wait until you see what that looks like after I put it in Bleach so give me just a second we'll get there holy cow though I'm so excited over that shell and I'm feeling so so grateful to be out here and part of the reason I'm grateful is because I have people that support me not just everybody who comes and watches and leaves all your amazing comments you are so kind but my patreons who help support me and kind of help me produce these videos I words cannot express how grateful I am thank you so very much now we're not quite done yet before I leave kis it gives me a little tiny Rose MCS and I'm kind of hoping it's intact so this is a little Rose M oh the little Tail's broken but you know what that's all right thanks kis I'll take that Rose M so wow what a day and this was my view after I toured so I have a very light heart a kind of a heavy shell bag and I'm just so grateful and thrilled that I get to do things like this and anytime I go on a shell tour I go with my friend Ally with swfl shell guide so any if you're thinking about coming down here I do recommend you try to go out with her so then it's just a quick ride back to the marina and I realized that I have forgotten to tell you guys that the marina does have a couple seashells so if you would like to purchase some ethically collected seashells and you didn't find what you were looking for on your tour pop into the store because you never know they might have something you're looking for oh that horse conk is beautiful now another reason you might want to stop into the store is just in case you forgot something they have your show Scoops your sunglasses your bug spray your sunscreen and then if you wanted any kind of souvenirs they're going to have that to right in the gift shop so when you pay for your parking it's been changing sometimes it's inside the marina sometimes it's out at a kiosk but just if you forgot something or you need souvenirs or anything pop into that little store there they have tons of great stuff so some necklaces and then we'll end with this cute shot of the manatee oh what a fun day so I took in addition to some seashells I did take a little bit of garbage off the beach so today I took 8.10 ounces of garbage off the beach which in total finally puts me over 45 lbs of garbage since March of 2022 so look at that two years I got a little over 45 lbs of garbage off the beach and dare I say probably removed a couple of treasures too so we have some Calico scallops above that we have one lace MC some apple MCS and some Calico clamps Sunray Venus clamps a couple of those banded tulips we do have some alternate Talons that one orange Jingle the sand dollars but we also have some of those horse conks I got a couple of those the limpets that baby's ear the slipper snail the cones the Florida cones the alphabet cones the spiny jewel boxes all those worm snails all the top snails in that little Beach Bowl some tinies above that we have the turkey wing a broad rib cardita Florida a prickly cockos some juvenile fighting and then we have some regular fighting conck oh you're pretty lettered oliv Liv over there oh I was doing some damage on those uh yellow prickly cockos yeah I love fighting the lightning welks couple of those pear wels we did get some augers some of those sths um we have the nutmegs the ribbed caneris the tinted canis the colorful moon snail oh the little weird shell that big moon snail that bright bright Calico scallop some of those other Moon snails the v's moon snail in addition to the colorful moon snail but for me you you are the star of the show today so let's see how that beautiful shell cleaned up so we'll take another quick look at it beforehand so this is what it looks like before oh it's purplish real pretty it's got a little bit of that periostracum on it but wait ready so I put it in the bleach and the per Ostrum came off and the shell is like a pinkish purple color I just about fainted right I might be gassing a little bit but I was thrilled the shell is kind of like pink purple oh it's so pretty I've seen juvenile ones that are kind of pinkish oh you're so pretty I'm so excited wait just one more look look at that so it doesn't have a really strong Strom boid Notch but it's like a pinkish purple and shiny and oh you're so pretty so it's special things like that makes it all worth it I have so much fun out there next week we're going to have more fun it's low tide it's Fort Meers Beach I hope you have yourself a great week and I will see you again next Sunday