Looking for Florida sea shells, shark teeth and a manatee encounter!

hello Beach friends we've hit the road and we've traveled about one and a half hours North to Minnesota key to visit one of Florida state parks at Stump Pass I'm not the only one that likes to be early so I had to wait a few minutes for the park to open at 8 00 a.m and I can certainly see why people would want to spend the day at this gorgeous Beach we are going to scour the beach looking for Beach Treasures we're going to do a little snorkeling and I have an amazing Wildlife encounter we're also going to spend a little time looking for shark teeth so we're really going to make the most of our time here at Stump Pass if you're ready to start our salty Adventure let's go to the beach foreign [Music] [Music] we have arrived we are at Stump Pass State Park so it is a state park there is an entrance fee of only three dollars per vehicle it's a self-serve little deal you can't take your little envelope here you put your money in there it goes into this green stand here and you're on your way now I just want to show you I did shoot this later in the day so that's why the parking lot is full but the parking lot is right there there's the parking lot there's the entrance and just in case you did need facilities there are facilities here also right over there so very convenient parking very convenient facilities and one last thing don't bring the pooch dogs are not allowed okay now that we got that all out of the way let's just start cruising the beach and seeing what's out there weather is going to be on our side I have no threat of thunderstorms rainstorms anything and there are seashells here fantastic all right let's see your common stuff that's okay as long as we're finding shells we can make this work a little bit of stuff down here too mostly your arcs some cockles things of that nature so I think we're gonna do okay I think we're definitely gonna find some shells and then just real quick let's take a peek at what is rolling around in the water for the most part it appears to be pretty much the same materials that are up on the beach now the last time I came here so this is only the second time I've been here all the good stuff was at the end of the beach let's do a quick check-in so Tide's coming in and 76 degrees tide is not going to help us and I was saying is this is my second time here last time lots of the shells were down at the end of the island so I'm gonna head down there this is a turkey wing so as I'm walking down to the end of the island I am going to at least slow down a little bit so this I know looks like a turkey wing I call it it's weird cousin this is a Mossy Arc so I know they look really similar but they are quite different so that is a Mossy Arc and this is a lady in waiting Venus clam I am particularly fond of those clam shells so as we're making our way down the beach I figured this would be a good time to just kind of remind you I do a brand new beach video every single week I have no idea what's going to be out there it could be Critters could be shells I have no idea but every week I go out there and we usually find something pretty awesome so if you like this kind of thing and you haven't done it yet I am going to recommend that you subscribe every Sunday at seven o'clock a new video a new beach video will come out so we'll find something to talk about something to explore every single week and today's actually gonna be pretty fun we're gonna see all sorts of cool stuff today now if I had a favorite slipper snail this would probably be the one this is called an eastern white slipper snail and they're supposed to be that flat just kind of cool eastern white slipper snail and this is a scallop and this is called a rough scallop you can kind of tell because of the Wings on the bottom that's really what I'm looking at when I'm trying to determine if it is a rough scallop or not I did see some ladies coming at me from the point and I'm kind of hoping they left some goodies for me there and let's talk about that where I parked where I'm going so the parking lot is here and I'm going to walk down the beach down to here because this is the area that had the most shells the last time I was here they were really kind of concentrated down at the end so I'm going to you know look for things as I walk along but really kind of sort of kind of hustling to get down to the bottom of the island but I was distracted by this turkey wing and it's actually in fantastic shape isn't that beautiful so that is a turkey wing it's also known as a zig zag Arc so that is also an arc shell and this is just a little bit green and slimy scallop and it was a little bit on the larger side so I decided to hold on to that slimy shell and here we have a lettered Olive pretty much got its point of course it's got the shells jammed in there and it's just the shape of that shell the lettered Olive kind of has that opening and shells typically do get jammed in there this is a Calico clam shell another clam shell I am quite fond of and this is one of the arcs I kind of like so that is called a cut ribbed Arc and if I had to pick a favorite art well actually I really like the blood arcs and the eared arcs so I I guess I kind of like a lot of the arcs I like the coral too so this is thin fingered Coral looks like octopus suckers doesn't it kind of with those little holes in it so that is thin fingered Coral oh another turkey wing all right not quite as beautiful as the previous one we picked up but you can see it's got that straight hinge so that's a turkey wing and another Calico claim these these two shells seem to be hanging out here at the beach today the turkey wings and the Calico clams and that works for me I haven't had a day with an abundance of either of those shells so happy to see those little beauties no shut up so that is a Florida cone it's a little beat up but still great find it's really big nice nice Florida con here we have a Florida Fighting Conch got a little bit of purple on the inside it's kind of your regular Florida conk oh nice variety today so this is a chestnut turban it's a little tiny bit chipped but definitely keeping that pretty turban now making my way some kind I'm almost down at the end and if I had to say I think that it is picking up a little bit the concentration of shells is starting to get a little bit more I'm starting to see a little bit more on here so again most of your arcs there's still plenty of shells here very pretty colorful and the Tide's coming in tide is not helping us today but that's all right it is what it is a little spiny Jewel box or on the lumpy side oh and another turkey wing oh I picked up plenty so I was able to be quite picky with those gorgeous pile of multi-colored shells and out of all that I had to go for the little Venus clam again all right so let's take a look at some turkey wings and some Mossy arcs so these are turkey wings again they're called zigzag arcs they do have that very straight hinge almost perfectly straight so that is a turkey wing AKA zigzag Arc that is a Mossy Arc so that also is going to have that really straight hinge but they they're they kind of have that weird wave in it and they won't have those zigzags the way that the turkey wing will so again like I said I know they look similar hopefully that'll help those are Mossy arcs so it looks like the a lot of the end of the beach is staked off for the birds so a little bit for the bird sanctuary they need their space too oh okay so that is a Calico clam that is very discolored it has been buried in the sand and a little chemical reaction went on to make that shell really dark kind of cool and this one yeah you know it was just really white not albino obviously and quite beat up but there is a difference between an albino white shell and just kind of a sun bleached shell and we're gonna check that out at the very end of the video I'm going to show you the difference between the two water is very clear so pretty happy I'm going to finish my business up on the beach first once I'm done kind of on the beach then we're gonna go snorkeling but right now I'm still concentrating on what is going on closer in the water and then on the beach proper another fancy clam shell one of those Calico clams gorgeous so another little peek at the bird so we have made it pretty much to the end at this point and I had mentioned earlier yeah the tide is coming in and it's coming in Pretty Wicked too let's do a quick check-in yeah it's just coming in and that's fine we're gonna be in the water at some point anyway so this was the day I had to go showing and it will be what it will be this will be an apple mirax although it's a little bit beat up a little bit look at those reflexes like a cat so I did decide after further inspecting it I didn't want to keep it so we'll leave that for another sheller another one of those fancy clam shells so that's the lady in waiting Venus clam shell oh cool so here is an urchin and I'm if it had all its spines I probably wouldn't bother collecting it because I it's so much work but this is almost cleaned and so I only really got to deal with what's going on the inside so I'm going to hold on to that little urchin this is a giant Atlantic cockle it's like your Beach variety Bowl fantastic for holding little things in actually if I I'm at the beach I don't have a beach bag I look for one of those and kind of make little piles of shells this is an unfortunate encounter this is a lace mirix it is missing almost you know it's barely a quarter of a shell oh same with this that is a crown conch that also is missing a bunch of its pieces a little bit of a beat up turkey wing oh your scallops your arcs probably kitten Paws mixed in there somewhere oh another piece of coral excellent It's a good shape it's got that like sucker pattern on it so that again is thin fingered Coral so we did make it to the end the last time I was here it was not roped off for the birds I guess the birds were in another area so I was able to kind of explore over there but it's roped off so we're just gonna stick to the water and the beach over here here is another giant Atlantic cockle fantastic a little Beach Bowl day the water is so clear so I'm gonna walk along here just for a minute see if anything kind of pushes up here again very lucky that it's nice and clear it doesn't get cloudy for a second the sand will get kicked up but it settles right back down and so visibility is great yeah I had mentioned the tide again it's not working in our favor and frankly it's making the pass here between these two islands a little bit tumultuous so I am not going to be snorkeling over here it is 80 degrees out I'm gonna kind of wrap around the corner and wait see the water calms down a little bit let's see do us buy something I do I spy another lettered Olive and sometimes for whatever reason the really kind of weathered ones are so pretty oh speaking of so pretty so that is a Calico scallop and I did see that bright orange kind of flashing in the water so I was able to score myself a very colorful Calico scallop another Calico shell this is a Calico clam and a little Coquina fantastic a little two for one all right so at this point I am going to relocate and look for a place to go snorkeling and let you all have a little beach time foreign thank you all right now last year when I came here I did find my big horse snorkeling and believe me I have I laser focus I'm looking for anything that looks like a little clam or a tail of a shell and snorkeling is actually kind of hard the the current is really strong and you're I'm very buoyant like I have a really hard time diving down so it's much easier if I can kind of like push along with my feet or my hands so I can kind of at least have control of where I'm going here it's so I'm filming and snorkeling we got a little shell of some sort okay I'm getting called knocked around what do we got here okay prickly cockle excellent I'm kind of holding on real good to that because like I said there is quite a current and okay looks like a bay scallop wonderful and then I did see a critter that's this not the shots that is a kitten paw lots of effort for a kitten paw can't we just call it like a mini lion's paw all right so I've got that and there were some Critters where are they that's not a critter shot oh I was very determined apparently to get that turkey wing I just didn't have enough and we can laugh about that at the end of the video and you see how many I actually got so got a turkey wing okay another little scallop appears to be one of the Calico scallops there's the critters that's a little hermit crab and I was excited to see it because normally I pick them up they hide in their shell but this little crab he's all out he's actually an abandoned tulip and so that was it I apologize if I dove down he was probably gonna he or she was gonna probably run away so I was just kind of happy checking out this little hermit crab flipping over shells and doing its hermit crab thing it's kind of exciting and it's just yeah that was another Critter I don't know what that is maybe you see Robin it's kind of like a fish with little wings on it so that was another Little Critter I spied and then I missed it was a giant stingray that I miss and the next thing you know there's a manatee right there now luckily I was able to Quick hit the record button so I was able to record some of it but it was absolutely thrilling to have that animal so close out in the wild where it's supposed to be it's gonna poke its little nose up it was amazing it I I was blown away I wish I'd been able to get that Stingray for you guys but at least I got a little bit of the manatee let's take another look slow it down a little bit now it has been injured by boats you will see that white mark it has been hit by a bolt but otherwise seems pretty okay look at that massive tail oh it was that I was thrilled to have had that encounter it was amazing and I it didn't occur to me that I'm gonna see Critters I had shells on the brain here's another one of those maybe sea robins I don't know if somebody knows what that is if you wouldn't mind dropping me a comment that would be great so I was scouring I was looking for that horse conch man I really really was but you know snorkeling didn't really help me out today but still did manage to find a couple of things and again that Manatee blew my mind I was beside myself so cool and there is a serif which is also kind of a cool shell another giant Atlantic cockle all right it's got all the tiny piece of the other side on that hinge there but sure we'll definitely take that Beach Bowl home uh oh pieces of glass and it is not sea glass that is just garbage so I'm gonna go ahead and remove that from the beach oh hello Calico scallop come a pretty delicate pink kind of kissed by Pink real pretty little shell and a yellow prickly cockle I can tell I got some I'm seeing something else by the way I'm kind of moving oh we have a jingle very shiny yellow jingle to go with my yellow prickly cockle oh there's the little baby's foot on the other side and while I'm picking up Jingles might as well grab those two so I got ourselves a yellow prickly cockle and a couple of jingles oh very pretty it's another real pretty Calico scallop of the orange variety very nice do you like me a good Orange Shell another lettered Olive this fella has its top and its shells jammed in the aperture excellent so we have another little lettered Olive now at this point I'm starting to get sharp teeth on the brain and you will notice that there are little pieces of black I do not think that that is a shark tooth but there's tons of little black things that kind of look like shark teeth I've only gone shark tooth hunting like maybe twice before clearly not my expertise I still I really don't think that that's a shark tooth I still think it's kind of cool I don't know about that one maybe it's a broken one I don't know but I still just kind of like the black maybe that is I don't know I'm gonna hold on to them and there is a worm snail all right so it looks like I'm about to go shark tooth hunting I did want to go back to my car and get my scoop though that was going to be a pretty necessary piece of equipment guess what that is that is a shark tooth it's broken there's my scoop you're really well you might find them without the scoop but you're gonna have a much easier time with one so I have scooped and I've kind of dumped out my goodies onto the beach not the best way to do it um you're better off if you have one of the greats with the pool noodles and that kind of looks like this so you got your pool noodles and your grain I don't have that with me today so I'm only working with my scoop so if you were serious about finding shark teeth I might go ahead and recommend that you do create one of those little great things I just know that this beach might have shark teeth and of course I always have my scoop in my car so I figured I was at least gonna try a little bit now again I don't think that that is a shark tooth look if somebody if you know and you can tell me I would really appreciate it that is a shark tooth so that I do know for sure is a shark tooth so that is what for sure a for sure shark tooth looks like the other ones again I am not an expert so I definitely my definite and my possibly broken one and then some bunch of maybes that I just kind of liked I think I look like shark teeth right and just some little weird little black shiny pieces so those are all the shark teeth that I managed to find again if I had had that great I probably would have had a lot better luck but it still was exciting to kind of at least find a couple of pieces now as I was putting my couple of pieces into my little delicates container the Irish bottles Lantern popped out of my urchin so that is what this little it's the teeth grinding plates there's five of them it's called Aristotle's lantern that side points out that side is what's actually inside the animal so I just want to show you since it popped out I really don't have that much cleaning to do so that was kind of exciting and then here is just another quick look this is a gorgeous Beach you can find shells and shark teeth and apparently you can have amazing Critter encounters too so and again for three dollars a car uh you can't beat it so this is a fantastic Beach to come to stump and then because it is kind of on you know an island there is a bay behind it and I just took a quick peek I know that Crown conks like to kind of hang out in Bay areas so I figured I'll just peek just in case but instead I was met with just a lovely View so this is the haul from today I told you I wasn't kidding about the turkey wings I picked up quite a few and I also managed to get a couple of scallops a couple of those leading waiting Venus clams a Florida Fighting con couple prickly cockles that cut ribbed Arc the big cockles the giant Atlanta cockles the uh Calico clams some olives the mossy arcs and then kind of my favorite things today the Florida cone the rough scallop that Calico scallop the Eastern slipper snail a little worm snail and the shark teeth so that was really cool I I mean that Manatee was something else I had a fantastic time now the white Shell let's take a look at that white shell compared to an albino so we can see on the right that is an albino lightning Welk and it is white white white where here the one on the left it's white-ish a little more of the creamy color but once you kind of see those together that white and about of an albino shell will really be white so hopefully you also could kind of see the difference in that once you see that albino you just know patreons thank you so so very much for supporting me and helping me go out and do things like this I really appreciate you helping me pay for parking and gas and all that good stuff next week we are headed to the east coast of Florida so today we saw shark's teeth next week we're gonna see some sharks so you have a fantastic week and I will see you again next Sunday