Florida shelling during negative low tide. Sunset beachcombing with shells, critters and beauty.

well hi there beach friends we are going on a little walk i wanted to take advantage of a negative low tide so we headed on down to fort myers beach because it was a good opportunity to find critters as well as find fantastic shells and we're also going to watch the sunset so we're going to have a whole bunch of fun luckily it wasn't too much of putting things back in the water we got a couple we did but we're going to find some shells some sand dollars a couple of critters watch the sun set so all in all we're gonna have ourselves a fantastic time so let's go to the beach [Music] [Applause] [Music] here we are over at kind of my home base fort myers beach and i came here because of low tide and i was afraid there might be a whole bunch of rescues and it looks like the first thing we found is indeed a rescue this is a live florida fighting conch i did bring my scooper i came prepared i wanted to be in the water and like i said take advantage it wasn't just low tide it was negative low tide so i wanted to get down there and spend as much time as i could shelling get this little guy back in the water now negative blow tide was at 7 20 and sunset was at about 8 10 so i did have a limited amount of time so i got there with give myself quite a few hours to kind of scope out everything and look for goodies i'm in the water and i was trying to find something and there was nothing there so i went to the beach and i'm also finding not a whole lot of anything i mean there is this spiny jewel box so there is always something but i don't want to bore you guys to tears but don't worry persistence paid off and we will find a ton of goodies but i was a little scared here we have a calico scallop i was a little scared i wasn't gonna find anything and it was just gonna i i really didn't know what i was gonna do here's a prickly cockle a florida prickly cockle there's also a different variety called a yellow prickly cockle maybe we'll find one maybe we won't here is a brown pelican because i do i love the pelicans so at this point i've walked pretty far haven't really found much anything like i said i always start to get nervous because i kind of need to show you guys something right i mean yeah i'm entertaining and all but you know i think we're all kind of here about the beach and the shelves and the critters and that kind of thing so i just kept at it i kept walking and this oh i thought this was exciting but it's actually just a discolored disc dosing yes so i was hoping oh maybe a new shell but no just a discolored disc dosenia all right now this is kind of exciting we're finding a sand dollar now i know it's pretty beat up but i'm gonna keep it anyway um yeah that's just what i decided to do gonna keep that guy anyway oh now florida fighting conks are one of my i do have a weakness for them and this guy i thought was really cool because it's got that light edge of his aperture the opening there so i thought that that light stripe down the side i thought that was really cool and here we have a sunray venus i do like these guys too this is very very faded if i had to guess i'd say the shell is probably a bit beat up but it's a little slow right now so i was kind of interested in pretty much anything that i could find ah guys that's that's a horse conch a piece of a horse that's i am chasing that horse but all right not that time that's okay what else do we find all right another florida fighting conch hard to say how he's gonna clean up at least it's empty it's a good sign we got all that sand and stuff jammed in there ooh that's another very pretty florida fighting conk nice orange again it's got some nice striping there on the side okay here we have just a calico scallop and orange scallop i do like the orange ones okay another florida fighting kong and he's kind of he's something's weird with the color something's a little off so i like that it's a little bit different so i'm gonna hold on to that all right here is another sand dollar that is in much better shape than that first one we picked up so we're definitely gonna hold on to that as well put that in my little case all right here we have a lettered olive at least there's starting to get happy at least there's something i can show you guys here's another sunray venus that is in better shape than that first one i picked up and we're in this see all that texture on the sand there it's kind of like this clay it's like super mucky um the angel wings tend to kind of like that and so i was expecting in this area to at least find one or two because for whatever reason they like this kind of clay oh what do we got here it's a false angel wing a hinged false angel wing but again they're they're here hopefully we'll find a few an auger and because of the low tide got to be super careful make sure there's no critters in these shells and a bunch of critters thwarted me many times oh it's a juvenile florida fighting conch an empty one yay and what else we got okay whoo fantastic okay that's a shark eye look at the swirl on that oh that's awesome really happy with that guy oh another letter to olive nice and pointy almost thought that might be golden but i think that's just kind of a light lettered olive looks like i spied another auger okay cool and then i spied this and i i don't know what that is i don't know maybe a piece i you know maybe a piece of a mossy ark maybe i don't know it was just a mystery here we have another shark eye and it looks like somebody yeah somebody gave that guy a little drill unfortunately and it happens it happens it looks like i found a lightning whelk it's a fun little find okay good yay i'm so happy i'm finding shells okay here we have a tulip kind of chewed up tulip i think that might be a true tulip and here we have a pear whelk yes a pair of elk it's got a little bit of color on there that's a nice that's a nice find oh guys all right help me what do you think is that an albino florida fighting conch i i think it is i i know there's like a little bit of color there but on the reverse side like there's just no color so i'm thinking maybe some of that tan was absorbed from the sand or something but either way i was pretty stoked i it's the closest i've come to finding that elusive albino florida fighting so maybe the jury's still out but i was still really happy with that looks like we got all right another shark eye cool ooh is that a paul newman kind of got that blue the blue eye hard to tell what else we got oh hi crown kong oh that's awesome and another auger very cool looks like i'm kind of checking him out more making sure i'm going to keep that i'm kind of i'm a little picky i'm not a vacation seller if you're here on vacation take everything home but i am lucky enough to come here kind of on the regular so i don't take everything i like to check out lots of stuff but i don't always take everything home i have a lettered olive that definitely will be coming home with me i like that guy all right whoa all right there's an angel wing with all sorts of like stuff growing on it so that's kind of neat i am gonna try to rehabilitate that maybe a little bleach can help that shell out i'm gonna try looks like we found another shark eye but this is not empty i cannot keep that looks like there's a long wristed hermit crab in there all tucked in there so we'll just kind of say hi hey dude take a peek at the show and put it back yep that's beautiful that means the tide is going out love it oh another lightning walk that's a decent find nice size all right so now i'm feeling a little bit better i'm feeling better we're going to make a real good video we're going to find some fun stuff like that lightning welk all right what's in this little pile all right got ourselves an alphabet cone albeit very beat up a very beat up alphabet cone what else we got all right sometimes i found that those if you kind of pull up those florida finding conks it kind of there's another florida fighting conk but when they're buried as you pull them up there's just kind of like other stuff in the sand so i was checking them out and there's a little lightning walk i was kind of you know uprooting and kind of seeing what i could find in there you got to be careful you when you're digging around with your hands you can get cut you got to be careful shells can be real sharp so just take it easy if you're doing that or bring an implement to actually do some digging it's kind of a beat up olive and decided to just leave that for someone else here we have another shark eye what kind of condition we got sandy okay you definitely oh dear it's kind of pitted i think that that's probably something i'm going to leave for someone else someone else's vacation all right so angel wings can be delicate so i'm not i'm kind of digging around it to uproot it instead of kind of relying on the shell to kind of come out on its own so that guy is big and it had a little bit of oomph to it so i'm going to keep it i am going to bleach that because if you kind of hold it to the side you don't really see that broken part so so here we are i found this other little sandbar that has been revealed because of the negative low tide so i am just super psyched but i know my time is limited because the sun will go down at some point so that's kind of a bummer so you know time's not necessarily on my side per se but we still got still have some time to do some checking out here's an urchin a short spined sea urchin all decorated with shells i love that and another sand dollar okay you know what we already have a really beat up one i'm gonna leave that for somebody else see if maybe we can find something that's in a little bit better shape okay um not really all right let's leave that one too let's keep looking there we go oh that's what i'm talking about most of the work's already been done for us it's beautiful it's big it's almost white i'm definitely taking that home and this one and i'll show you in a different video i'm going to make a whole other little video on what i do with my sand dollars so that'll be coming to you at some point in the future there's another shark eye and it's a little beat up yeah and that one's really beat up yeah we'll just leave them what else we got okay oh yeah that dark shiny color that caught my eye but yeah we're gonna leave that one for somebody else as well okay we got our oh looks like we got ourselves a tinted cantarus with a little tiny hermit crab in there so we gotta leave that another angel wing and let's see oh oh oh dear it's got a it's got a whole like little seaweed farm growing on it so we're just gonna we're gonna leave that there maybe someone else would like to take a shot at that and here is a live sand dollar hello friend and all his little spines on the bottom that helps them move and dig into the water move around and also brings the food to its mouth which is in the very center on the underside so that is a live sand dollar and it is illegal to take that home those must stay at the beach but think about it if you're finding live ones there's probably one that's safe to take somewhere so just keep looking i was happy to find a banded tulip but uh once i got a closer look i don't know [Music] i think that that's probably a shell i'm just gonna leave here yeah it's just pitted and it's got some green slime on it we're we're just gonna keep looking see if we can find something a little bit better shape there's a scallop and again i want to dig but i want to be careful because i don't want to hurt myself what do we got a gaudy nautica a colorful moon snail but it's the pits it's the broken and it's it's the pits that kind of get me the broken part i can maybe live with but so i thought that this was a live angel wing and i thought to myself okay now i get it i get why the edges of the angel wings kind of have that stuff on it we keep finding it on the ends so i don't know what quite is going on here and all of a sudden look this little calico box crab so he's kind of hiding in there he's kind of acting like a hermit crab he's we're gonna actually see another one in a minute but he's just gonna he or she's just kind of hanging out in the angel wing okay leave him alone and another shark eye it's i have not found this many shark eyes in so long super happy not all of them are keepers but that's right pick them up check them out and then here's when i go do i keep it do i not bleach is it gone you're gonna leave it yeah i don't take these decisions lightly i take my time really think about it so here is an apple muric's and very beat up and again do i keep it do i leave it i think i decided to keep it because i can live with broken it's the pitted the pits are what kind of pushes me over the edge and look alright here is a little tiny horse conch beautiful orange horse don't worry i was extra careful about making sure no critters made their home their way back with me i did not feel like taking a return trip back to the beach like this shell has a critter in there you really kind of gotta look in there so that banded tulip is gonna have to stay so that's what i'm talking about as far as an awesome view the tide is going out there by exposing that much more shells in the muck like this beautiful orange florida fighting kong it's a lovely shell so i know i had mentioned time is kind of limited by judging where the sun is i probably got a little over an hour before i'm gonna have to really seriously think about heading back to the car but in the meantime let's find shells and looks like i got let well i picked up and put down a lettered olive i'm checking these out that's what i'm doing with my hands i'm kind of like pushing my thumb against it just to kind of see if it was nice and shiny and that is a very beat up tulip i am not going to keep that but like i said as you pull up things you kind of find things underneath it this florida cone looks like i found that not albino i think that's just kind of washed out and i love seeing all the stuff on the beach what do we get another shark eye all right fantastic i'm not going to keep that yeah it's the pits oh and another gaudy nautica all right that looks good to me it's got great color it doesn't have pits i know it's broken but i'm gonna bring that guy home so what else it was so fun just kind of finding like a little pile and picking through it see what all was there looks like another shark eye but yeah it's not a keeper and it's kind of cool how some of the shell you know they're green and they got slime on it but other ones are great so it's kind of like a little bit of a lottery you just never know what you're going to get a nutmeg awesome and a crown conch ah awesome so that's what i'm talking about yay and that'll be right next to some weird green shell so don't give up guys just keep looking right super happy with that okay that's a beat up olive just kind of poking around to see if there's any any other goodies in there a banded tulip dang it it's got a hole in it so i'm probably going to leave that for somebody else to enjoy oh and a little lace muric's with a hermit crab oh well womp oh now that's what i'm talking about a banded tulip that is packed full of sand which is terrific because that means there's no critter in there and shark eye can't quite tell that's gonna be a keeper or not looks looks pretty good let's bring it home and then i can always decide later another shark eye although it's looking a little beat up like the finish is not going to be i'm still deciding i told you it takes me a minute so i think all in all after all that i decided to leave it there hopefully somebody else can uh enjoy that somebody who's vacation shelling maybe and oh i know it's broken but darn it's pretty that is a true tulip a broken true tulip so pretty or is that a banded tool um well either way it was a tulip and i don't think i brought it here's another tulip that to me looks like a banded tulip a little long-wristed hermit crab oh and this nutmeg drove me a little crazy because the color was fantastic really dark rich colors but it had a hole and it was missing its little pointy top but i still kept it just because it was such it was great color and i feel like i can still use that in some other kind of application if i'm only just showing the one side oh dear yeah that is not coming home with me for sure oh a little lightning walk you never can tell too typically i just pick up a piece but with the shelling that i'm doing tonight like the sand is soft enough and the whole shell comes out so that's kind of kind of cool got ourselves another angel wing and oh that would have been huge that it's just a piece of a shark eye so i ended up with my angel wing and another crown conch but yeah it's that's 25 of a crown conch all right just just check this out all right florida fighting conch way slimy and bumpy we're just gonna leave that ooh shark guy oh dear hmm we're probably gonna leave that as well so just you know just keep checking stuff out you never know once in a while there's going to be a keeper that one was downright fuzzy so i did not need to add a fuzzy lightning bolt to my collection i left that there and another green banded tulip that's pretty beat up so i am going to think long and hard and then probably yeah leave that for somebody else what do we got okay that's another lightning look all right i'm kind of looking right the color is unusual all these other things are kind of like rolling through my head as i'm looking at it and ultimately i think i left that because it just had too much going on and um that looked like a perfect lease muric's and i pick it up and it's a pretty i don't know kind of slimy apple mirex i see the resemblance though there's definitely resemblance between the lace and the apple but i decided to leave that one [Music] okay one more thing i'm thinking it's a little green this is a banded tulip and i'm going to keep that i betcha i bet you i kept that and that is an apple mirrex with a barnacle inside green stuff it's okay and another so even though especially the green stuff i'll just drop that in some bleach no problem oh another little horse conk with another little critter in it i don't know if you can see a little antenna or little feet little legs but there's a little critter in there so that is not coming home with me another crown conch shut up awesome oh terrific okay really happy with that oh that's fantastic it's another fantastic crown conch i can't believe we found so many today that is a little unusual now this is i know it's only a juvenile florida fighting conch but they have some of the most spectacular color i see sand jammed in there totally safe to bring home no critters oh that's beautiful very happy with that and another florida fighting conch it looks like there's lots of perry ostrich on it and i'm probably going to leave it i think i have enough of those furry lady most here we have a orange lightning look he's a little bit chewed up i like the color though i love those like lemony orange colors as well as the dark ones i figured just check this guy out a little bit of the purple on the inside i don't think it's that rare that's i'm definitely going with that so they so they say that if you find a florida fighting conk with purple on the inside it's very very rare but i tend to kind of find it i wouldn't say every single time i'm out but really often so i for me i have not found that to be the case here's another shark eye a beat up shark eye but a shark eye nonetheless and what do we okay another you never know all right another florida fighting conch fantastic what else we got all right another one all right check it out just in case there's something uber special about it and i have to take it home and what what what [Music] oh that's awesome all right that to me does look like a blue center so that would be a paul newman shark eye very cool just kind of sitting there amongst all those florida fighting conchs doesn't even have a drill mark oh that's fantastic awesome and another apple murax that's a pretty good size you know all the uh imperfections that guy has i'm thinking i can definitely clean that up so i'm definitely bringing that home i'm still looking still got some time got ourselves a nutmeg and another tulip oh look it you see it that's a little calico box crab just like the one we saw inside the angel wing not too long ago so he's pretty we'll just check him out for a second and we like clock is ticking that sun is dipping down we gotta go go go find as much as we can another that's great another banded tulip and an olive looks like it passed the test yeah oh dear yeah it's a florida fighting conch it has seen better days okay another florida fighting conch i don't know there's too much here let's yeah ooh all right another floor to fighting conch it's nice to at least get those out of the way because sometimes there's other cool stuff buried underneath it oh he's kind of pretty with that stripe the pattern stripe i like that and another shark eye fantastic day for shark eyes holy moly that is terrific oh that's awesome awesome shark eye love it okay another broken tulip i mean we're finding them so i still like i still like that they're at least they're there that's a nutmeg even if they're broken so to me it means there's at least a possibility that we'll find something that's not broken somewhere oh all right this little this little guy looks like it had a re repair itself at some point you kind of see that its shell is a little broken there that is a little shark eye with a little imperfection still pretty handsome little girl and another letter to olive and a florida cone all right cool oh dear i know it's a little beat up but for the cones are relatively rare or at least in my experience so i keep if it's not completely beat up i keep almost all the ones i find and that banded tulip looks like a little bleach might work just fine to clean that up ooh now that is a weird floor see what i mean there's a little purple on the inside that is a kind of discolored florida fighting so i'm probably going to keep that even though it looked he looked pretty heavy another broken tulip another crown conch okay now this guy i know there's a hole in it but if you look at it from the other side it's fine so i'm probably going to keep that not so much that olive hmm yeah probably not lightning walk nope just a piece and beat up florida fighting conch so we'll just stick with this but we'll just look at it that way now this guy my husband tosses it to me i can't find it and he's like i don't worry about it i'm like really a crown i'm gonna find it that's what i found he told me not to worry about it clearly he should not be in charge of the shells so the sun is going down and it's really really pretty it's you if you've been down here you know it's kind of like a thing when the sun sets everyone goes down to the beach and watches the show so people bring their chairs maybe they'll bring a cocktail and they watch the sunset which is always really really fun and cool you don't always get to see it sometimes the clouds kind of interfere with you actually watching it but it's always beautiful sometimes it's um cloudy you know you can't really control the weather but it's always all right maybe not always but most of the time it's just lovely so here's the sun and it's we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna watch the sun set give you guys a little bit i know typically i'm out first thing in the morning but again because i was trying to take advantage of negative low tide i went to the evening so we're gonna we're gonna watch the sunset there's that um angel wing area you'll see in the foreground there kind of that mucky clay sand so we're kind of passing that at this point that's so peaceful and so nice and i just found so many cool shells life is good i have watched the sun set here i don't know a dozen times 20 times not that many and i don't know about you if you've ever heard about the green flash it's kind of like a thing when the sun right as it's going dipping beneath the horizon supposedly sometimes there is a green flash i myself have never seen it have you has any of you ever seen a sunset where you got to see the green flash i haven't seen it but that means i need to keep watching right need to keep getting back out there and seeing if maybe one of these days i can see it and it goes quick like one minutes there and next minute there it goes and just like that it has dipped below the horizon it is cool it is beautiful i am so happy and grateful that i can share these kind of walks with you and i am so very very grateful to my patreons now here are some of my special patreons and guys i am producing a video specifically just for my patreons so if you want a little more content i can't promise i'm going to do it all the time but i am putting out a video specifically for my patreons in the next couple of days so this is our haul we found a couple oh in the beginning i was a little scared there but it picked up and it was terrific we had some sunray venus clams with a couple of those different sand dollars and again i'll bring you another video about those the angel wings a couple of the bivalves the shark guys crazy tons of moons now so that was totally cool um the banded tulips a lot of which need some bleach along with some of those apple murics they need some bleach too and that's okay that nothing a little bleach can't can't help and then the lightning wags all those cool uh floor defining conchs again let me know what do you think did i find an albino i'm not sure and all the crown conks that was so many one day and my husband did find a top snail we found the jewel box earlier in the day so all in all personally i really had a lot of fun i thought it was awesome and thank you guys for coming along with me i have let some of you know that my folding kayak did not work out so i returned it and i purchased a quote-unquote regular kayak so i do have that in my possession and i will be using that really soon i don't know where we're going next sunday but i'm going to try my best to make it super fun so have a great week and i'll see you then