Florida Virtual Beach Walk. Fort Myers Beach during Red Tide. Tons of Beach Treasures!

hello Beach friends today we're going to be spending a couple of really fun hours on Fort Myers Beach now Fort Myers Beach is still recovering from that evil hurricane Inn but we're not going to talk too too much about that we're really going to be spending our time on the beautiful beach enjoying all the wonderful things that Fort Myers Beach has to offer us now when I decided to go is just at the tail end of red tide this part's pretty but dead stuff everywhere so yeah I had a couple lounges at the beach but it's gonna be okay this is one of the last Red Tide walks that I'm going to do the conditions change and so we're not gonna have to worry too much about that but believe me friends today we are gonna find fantastic goodies not all of them are necessarily going to be ones we're going to be able to take home it's low tide we're going to be performing a lot of rescues and if you're ready to see what else is out there for us today let's go to the beach [Music] thank you [Music] thank you you know when you've lived through a natural disaster it's not terribly weird to find a couple of armchairs just kind of hanging out on the beach but the further again the further away we get from the street and the houses and stuff we can just concentrate on all the cool things that we can find down here on Fort Myers Beach like this angel wing very Sandy angel wing and I suspect we'll probably find a couple of those today kind of hope I find a couple of these too now that is a purple sea urchin test so that's just kind of the body that's left all the guts and everything are gone so yeah it's uh pretty much just looking for dead stuff here at the beach um at least dead stuff that we could take home I'm not gonna take any bodies or anything but I will be taking those urchins and seashells like this pear Welk nice little shell gonna need a little bit of cleaning up on some of this stuff sorry again there's just seashells and stuff jammed in there and that is fine and a little banded tulip with a bonus bubble inside oh okay awesome a twofer and then a nutmeg and that's a nice looking nutmeg it's actually bigger than a little banded tulip supposed to be the other way around but it is what it is oh there's going to be so many goodies here like this really nicely colored all right I'm gonna be careful I'm not just going to kind of flick what's inside in there I want to be careful and take them out I don't want to break that lovely pear Welk with great color on it another banded tulip oh dear but that is a horse and that bright orange part that's the body of the animals so we're on our way to the water which is going to be a little bit longer of a walk because it is negative low tide at 6 46 it which is a little while ago right now it's 7 11 in the morning and so oh look at how gorgeous that shell was but it is alive so that is also going to end up back in the water that is a crown conch and it is gorgeous but the animal is not done with its shell so it will be deposited in the water which I'm not really sure if I'm helping or harming because we do have red dyed here it's kind of starting to Abate but you can definitely tell it has been here that is a lovely Calico clam and that that's clam and then the lovely Apple lyrics two pretty fantastic shells do you see some nice little bits here so it's not too chunky some little stuff oh please be empty yeah yeah all right so that's a crown conch that I can keep it's not quite as gorgeous as that other one we just put back in the water but it's a keeper yay and a colorful moon snail another member of the moon snail family there are three shells off the top of my head I can think of this the colorful moon snail the shark guy and the baby's ear that is a little spiny Jewel box and I know you can't really it's kind of messy and I can't really see what's going on but that is a little tiny spiny toolbox and as soon as I can kind of test it I'll see if that's alive or not and then that tinted cancerous shell we have a little tiny hermit crab oh you're so cute and then I was kind of messing around with the spiny Jewel box and as it turns out it is alive and well so we are not going to keep that or you're going to leave that here so I just kind of tuck it in yeah just just a little bit just tuck it in all right so far there's been a lot of great shells let's kind of take a minute slow down let's see what all is here see lots of bubbles we have ourselves a dark Seraph a lightning Welk try to give you guys a chance I see stuff Apple mirax and it's funny there's one and it's going to drive me crazy if I don't pick it up all right that was nothing there it is the pear Welk and a top so that's just the top of a pair Welk what do we got here a juvenile Fighting Conch another juvenile Fighting Conch and look I just kind of moved the shells a little bit and you can see this little lace lyrics holy smokes there's lots of stuff here whoa gosh okay now we have a banded tulip empty fantastic and another Apple mirax wow what else another parallel all right that Lyric's a little bit older but yeah probably gonna go for that I can't hold it but wow and so that is a hinged rose petal Talon so all those little goodies yeah I think it's probably gonna be a really fun day here and this rose petal Talon awesome and I'm just kind of messing with you guys yes I do see that alphabet cone there normally Honestly though I really wouldn't pay attention to it because I know I'm not going to keep it I know what it is normally I might just kind of keep on shelling but I want to let you know I did see it I don't know why I have an affinity for these top snails but I do so that is a rather large nice looking top snail and one lone Chestnut turban I do not think I'll be finding any operculums today either but we did get one little Chestnut turban awesome and that is another little spiny Jewel box not quite as spiny as the live one we saw but pretty cool wow yep there'll be purple on the inside so the juveniles will have a little bit more that pink color on the outside I think we're going to find a couple more so we'll see that that is a common auger oh that's a pretty decent size horse I know it's a little bit chewed up on the aperture but you know what yeah it's pretty good looking horse with my little auger oh hi critter it's alive you can see his little spines moving so this is a sea urchin a short spine to see urchin they like to collect shells as well that makes them you know we we we're Kindred Spirits we both collect shells so the urchins will collect shells and kind of cover themselves for protection they kind of think they're fooling people they're hiding people I I think they're kind of trying to get dressed up myself but that was a short spine to sea urchin and here's another one of those um spiny jewel boxes and it's Juvenile and you can see all that pink the Jews some of the juvenile shelves have a little bit of pink to them this Buttercup loose scene we're definitely looking at a yellowish shell so that is a buttercup leucine oh okay we'll start here I see more than one oh dang it all right I call those like peekaboo shells and sometimes I'll keep them sometimes I don't this is what I wanted to see yeah okay buddy this this Critter is alive so I'm gonna get it back in the water hopefully that's the right thing to do well keeping it on the beach frankly is definitely not going to do it any favor so we will be putting the live stuff in the water I think that's just a piece yeah that was a lightning walk chunk okay what do we another one alive yeah yep so this beautiful Critter was stranded by the tide would it have survived without my help probably but I do get a little bit compulsive about it and I want to leave the critters in the water hello you beautiful nutmeg you oh that is so pretty so another common nutmeg without a peekaboo little hole in it awesome and a cone oh look it is clearly meant for someone that has an initial a so that is a cone it's actually a Florida cone but that is what that is that is actually a little unusual because it's a lightning look but it's like white and a little bit yellow normally they're more of a creamy and brown so a very white lightning look kind of interesting so I have not made it far at all I mean I have barely maybe I don't know 100 yards if that so there's just so much so much good stuff here but I do want to take advantage of the low tide so I am going to try to kind of move it up the beach and cover a bit of beach cover a bit even though I like the south end the most oh here's another critter I do like the south end of Fort Myers Beach the best so that critter yep unfortunately nice size shell and it's close enough to the water's edge I feel okay about that oh empty oh it's beautiful yes oh that's gorgeous no they're really pretty good spikes on it beautiful Florida Fighting Conch that's alive I can see the body of the animal and the O perculum there so I'm just gonna leave it alone we've seen a couple of those Crown conks today oh it's gonna be a good pair Welk day you've been finding a bunch of those fantastic oh and another Critter hello Critter so this little hermit crab looks to be a long-risted hermit crab is tucked all nice in its little apple mirrors not very active I'm hopefully it's feeling okay a little slow so good luck my little friend I am just going to leave you right where I found you oh boy okay so that lightning walk there that's alive that that I'm holding that is another Fighting Conch there is so much white on the shell so that was interesting to me I just like seeing things that are different and that was a little bit different oh so pretty this alive yeah let's just take a little peek in a beautiful oh that would have been awesome what about this empty pair well yes that's a really nice looking pair well and here notice how kind of straight the bottom of the shell is because this one is not straight at all this one is super bendy so this is a super bendy pear Welk almost like Spiral at the bottom so I found that to be really interesting and then just kind of juxtapose against the one we just found we have bendy on the bottom straight in the upper right kind of neat and then the color of the shell itself a lot of that yellow and the base color of the shell is probably because the animal expired recently the shells will be more colorful oh this beach looks great it's going to be so fun and there were two other people here I have something to say about that but go I'm just gonna go ahead and leave all my comments below and I was also here picking up garbage and I was able to remove quite a bit of garbage and well at the very end of the video I'll just kind of let you know how much of that garbage I was actually able to pick up a live yep so I don't just take seashells I will also remove garbage oh but I'm definitely taking that seashell it's empty beautiful lightning Welk oh what a sand dollar a very dead a very collectible sand dollar sand dollars that are alive we'll have moving little cilia hairs all over it this one not so much this one has expired and is completely safe to collect the sand dollar like this and that is another urchin actually sand dollars are very flat urchins and then this purple urchin they can be a little more delicate so I'm going to put it in my little delicates container that I keep in my shell bag as far as a shell bag just any bag will do frankly I do have one that just kind of mesh I need to sling it over my shoulder so I can pick up shells like this angel wing with one hand and then film with the others so I don't really care about my shell bag I just sling it over my shoulder it just has to be big enough to make sure I can put all those beautiful shells in it so another Fighting Conch and a beautiful angel wing okay next up we have this beautiful turkey wing I like to check the bottom see if it's broken oh that's gorgeous looks like it might have repaired itself at some point but really pretty and speaking of pretty I think it's time for me to be quiet and you to enjoy a little beach time and yes sometimes when I am doing my beach time shots I will literally stop turn around and walk back because I've walked past things so I'm always kinda keeping an eye on the beach as I'm walking around even if I'm trying to shoot what's going on right in front of me beautiful Calico scallop hello beautiful oh yeah crazy pair welcome day beautiful it's a Calico scallop and another pair well now these little birds that is called a ruddy turn Stone and they're long-distant migrant Birds they actually breed in the Arctic tundra okay but they spend their off seasons in nice areas like this and they get their name from they have a little upturned Bill and they flip debris on the beach to uncover insects and small Crustaceans hence the Ruddy turned Stone that is not anything there's nothing ready about that beautiful Florida Fighting concrete it's orange it's pointy it's awesome I'm kind of circling this yup Apple mirax it's that is a great looking shell nice and frilly awesome looking Apple lyrics that's oh that's a bummer and that's red tide cough but it's not making me leave I'm still here I might be coughing just a little bit but I'm still going I'm not even turning around there have been times where I've been out and red Tide's been miserable but today it's it's okay it's not so bad check this out now first of all I rarely see purple on the beach that is so cool so this is just a southern Quahog but it's massive those are one of the only and it's really heavy too normally I might not keep something like that because it's so heavy however that purple yeah I couldn't leave it behind so I did keep that big old giant Quahog and I'm gonna keep this too that is beautiful now that's called periostricum that kind of layer that's on the outside of the shell but not I know how to get that off no problem it's going to be beautiful and that beautiful angel wing did manage to find a couple and I did also find more of one side than the other it's not completely uncommon wow now that one's a little bit bigger that is uncommon it is literally uncommon to find the bigger angel wings the smaller ones not so much but I'm finding both sides I'm finding left sides and right sides and this kind of made me a little Melancholy to be honest because this used to be just like a really pretty Lush Mangrove area and it's been beat up and that's okay it'll come back and I'm kind of you know peeking around what's behind me you can hear construction equipment going and you can see everything got literally everything on the island got some sort of damage for the most part yeah just it's not good but the rebuilding is going on there is hope and there is seashells so I am going to come down and enjoy this this beat up beach with a little bit of red tide because you know why because of that because of that Crown conch isn't that gorgeous I literally would have been happy if that was the only show I found that is a gorgeous Crown a little bit of shine beautiful spikes oh man that's pretty and so that's why I beachcomb I just love checking out the seashells that fighting look at how dark rich and chocolate the color is or this one it's kind of white and dark that one's alive I can't keep it oh and that's a bummer because the color is so interesting all the white on there really really different so I might be coughing a little bit I might be surrounded by debris up on the street but I'm having myself a fantastic time beachcombing here on Fort Myers Beach see what I mean now this one's got purple and pink oh yeah that is super cool another not just regular cool a super cool Fighting Conch that's awesome oh look at the color on that true tulip I never find them I mean just almost it's so rare isn't that beautiful so that is a true tulip and believe it or not the horse is actually a member of the true tulip family another Crown oh I hope it's empty yes okay so those pretty Stripes oh that's beautiful not quite as spiky as that other one we picked up but the color is fantastic yeah so fun and I did mention angel wings and I did indeed find a few and again you'll see that smaller size it's kind of on the common side um side once they get a little bit bigger that's kind of unusual so definitely going to hold on to all of them anyway but I give these bigger ones just another minute because they're much older they've taken a lot longer to build and grow am I gonna let that little chip bother me probably not I'm gonna hold on to that beautiful angel wing oh and this shell this shell is so neat because it's really it's like in between being a juvenile and like an adolescent shell so the juveniles that have the zigzag like here and then the adolescence kind of move into that coloring so to have both coloring on the same shell I thought that was really cool this is also really cool it's a sand dollar a very flat urchin so sand dollars are members of the urchin family ooh oh that's a real nice looking Fighting Conch so we got ourselves a beautiful flat urchin and a little fighting all right my personal reading of Fort Myers Beach red side right now is like low to moderate all right in the spirit of keeping things real I was experiencing just a little bit of red tide um like a little bit of coughing so where I was was down here and I guessed it was low to moderate and if we kind of look around up here was low in the Back Bay it was basically not present over here is medium and then this is where I am so yeah I'm experiencing you know just a little bit of the coughing I know it affects other people it can really be bad for some people for me it's not so much it's you know I'm out here I'm doing my thing I could have you know could have made a different video I could have came here and talked all about the dead stuff but I'm just kind of choosing to not we're just going to concentrate on the more positive things that are literally going on at the same time so two things can be true at the same time I can find that beautiful sand dollar and this beautiful broad rib cardita and still cough a little so it is what it is and it is okay because frankly it's gone after this video so this is the last I'm really going to need to speak about it I hope for quite a while but I will be continuing going to the beaches to pick up things like this beautiful yellow prickly cockle I do like a good yellow prickly cockle or just a giant Atlantic cockle awesome now that was hinged at one point and it's only got a little bit if it's other side there kind of attached but that is a gorgeous Beach Bowl wonderful and would I grab oh beautiful shiny lettered Olive well looks like it might frankly it's wet I don't know if it's shiny fingers crossed it is it's got its point oh a turkey wing another one awesome and frankly I can tell if it's broken or not better from the underside than I can from the top side oh I just like those turkey wings all right so coughing yeah yeah a little bit the shells pretty awesome if you ask me fun Factor super up there the grooty factor frankly it's there I'm not showing it to you but if you're kind of squeamish this was not the trip for you so I'm just gonna keep focusing on the positive things like that baby's ear now I did see the uh little sea star so I did get that back in the water but I had to make a beeline for this beautiful baby's ear first oh [Music] thank you Fort Myers Beach you rock and this is just a Calico scallop but it's just discolored in such a way isn't that beautiful it's not just a regular one of the middle Calico scallop High Sun Ray Venus clam that is hinged and awesome yeah that is great looking Sunray Venus clam awesome I was just walking down the beach you know minding my own business and I looked through the mangroves I'm like what and there's this random shell pile what and so um the winds the way that the winds and the waves they just kind of create these weird shell piles so probably hold on to that lightning walk but isn't that strange like it just and all of a sudden there's just massive shell pile kind of looking what's here right for the most part it looks like stuff that we've already kind of seen today arcs and cockles so I'm just you know doing a quick scan just to make sure my janoni is not here that would be terrible to leave that behind and I'm not picking up a lot of stuff because I've heard you know we've already picked it up at this point oh what's the exception of this this little pink Coquina that I had not picked up today so uh doing the skin oh buddy you were sitting right there oh no all right let's get you in the water so the animal has completely like sucked inside its shell to conserve the water that is a little giant Atlanta cockle that I'll hold on to but just making sure there's nothing else here and then we're gonna go ahead and get that lightning walk back into the water and hopefully it will survive and so yep happily picking up garbage along the way no I do not leave sea glass on the beach that always goes in my beach bag unless it's a legitimate sea glass look at this no I thought it might have been just the actual um characters the the shell but it was a live Critter so that's a horseshoe crab if I had to guess I'm gonna guess female it's little boxing gloves look like they were on the smaller side there you go friend hopefully you'll be okay another pair Welk yeah oh wow and then again see the base color see the one on the bottom is a little bit more yellow or the one on Top's a little more white the whiter one was probably hanging around the beach a little bit longer oh yeah another Crown conch right speaking of kind of rolling around the beach this one definitely has been here for a little while but not like I'm Gonna Leave it behind that's for sure all right what did I Spy I'm gonna crawl under here for a banded tulip and good thing because we got a critter all right so we're gonna get that Critter into the water and I saw oh I see another banded tulip empty awesome terrific yep that's a nice keeper of a banded tulip all right looks like I'm still here what else did I see oh another one terrific I saw a little pair walk I wonder if I'm gonna grab it fighting cons and let it cockles oh little apple mirrix I'm Gonna Keep it oh no I didn't think I was that's the pear Wilk all right cool I did see it awesome oh another little pair well wow it's a great day for those I wish I knew why that happened some days you just find all the same shell that's a shark eye bunch of green shells I kind of had to crouch under some trees to find them wow look at the size of that banded tulip the only good only they get about four inches long and that's just about the biggest one I've ever seen that is a massive looking bended tool and curiosity did get the better of me I ran and found that shell measured it it's three and a half inches so it's just half inch short of maximum size banded tulip another one another baby's ear awesome no way all right that's super cool awesome awesome awesome a golden Olive now these all right you know this is even weirder than a golden Olive because it's like kind of a golden Olive look so that's like the lettered Olive and then it gets golden and then back to a lettered Olive so it's an anomaly that color that like yellow color whoa that is so cool a half golden Olive awesome oh is this the same I think it is literally the same hermit crab you said hi to earlier well I'm glad to see that you're doing okay terrific yeah the sound of construction equipment and rebirth and rebuilding so I leave lovely Fort Myers Beach but I did take a couple of things like this garbage and I did manage to get a bunch 3.48 pounds of garbage now previously I've already picked up 26.52 pounds today was 3.48 for a grand total of 30 pounds of garbage I myself have removed from the beach in about a year so that I think is kind of cool I have removed a couple things and I did manage to find a couple of those angel wings isn't that nutty and there's a lot more of the one side than the other we got some banded tulips that uh sand dollars some of those urchins the baby's ears the rose petal Talons that bendy pear Welk all those other fighting conchs couple ponderous arcs the Sunbury Venus clams a giant Lana cockle and some of the small uh fighting some of the Apple mirrix that horse conch the top snail the lightning walks all the those pair welks the top of a pear Wilk a couple of those olives a little piece of coral the crown conks are really cool that true tulip the shark I mean it just was really fun there was a little bit of everything that was kind of awesome could have gone without the red tide but it is what it is patreons especially my new patreons welcome aboard thank you so much for monetarily supporting me and allowing me to go out I would do this regardless but boy it's nice to be able to kind of afford some gas money in tolls so thank you so very much next week we're going to kais it is awesome I I just trust me it's going to be super fun I hope you have a wonderful week and I will see you again next Sunday