10,000 Islands Florida. Beachcombing, shelling and beautiful views! No boat, no problem. Part 2.

hi beach friends we're going to start off with a couple of critters okay where we left off last week we had already gotten up before the sun came up we went sunrise shelling on a sandbar and then we skipped over to a different sandbar and where we actually left off we were kayaking from the sand bar over to kais island and so today i will be showing you all the different awesome things i find on kais island and then at the end we'll circle back and we'll look at all the goodies we found on the different sandbars as well as kai silence so let's go find some goodies [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we've made it we're over here on caice island which is part of the ten thousand islands which stretch from marco island down south to everglades city so it is an entire network of all these awesome little islands this particular island is relatively close to marco and goodland so a lot of shelters will come to this island that in front of us right there that is dickman's island and so we are like i said over again over on kais now if you didn't see the first part of this video i'm gonna go ahead and put a little little uh button up in that corner so you can check that out before we get into this which is the later part of the day get to kai's island and bam we got ourselves a lace mirrex not the most pristine one it's gonna need a little bit of cleaning up but that is a fantastic lace mirex and then nope not gonna go for the pen shell gonna go for this guy this is a lightning whelk and a banded tulip that seemed to be very attractive to a whole bunch of barnacles hopefully that'll clean up i'm still going to keep that guy so where we are okay so that up here that is marco island and then where we started was from a marina which is here and we traveled over to this sandbar we traveled over to that sandbar and then that's when i ended that first video and then this is us now and we have traveled around dickman's island and we are over here on the northern part of caice island and guys i'll try to keep it to a minimum but this place was gorgeous i'm probably going to say it a lot i'll try not to but it really was just this delightful uninhabited beautiful rustic island we were not the only ones there but it wasn't like there was crowds for sure it was absolutely beautiful so we're gonna have ourselves a good time i'm gonna look for shell here's a gory nordica and i had mentioned this in some of the comments we're gonna find a whole bunch of these guys so i'm actually gonna keep track so this is the first gaurinarka that we found today there is an opportunity here to shell in the water and on the beach so you it's not like you're stuck either way it's a little treacherous so if you do happen to come here please wear shoes of some sort that is a little horse conch lead to the horse conk so as i was saying definitely going to want to wear water shoes here is a scallop it's kind of looking like a bay scallop to me even though it's really really white maybe it's a top of a zigzag either way it's a pretty white one broken olive but here we have an auger pretty good size auger too at that now check this guy out i had to reach out to one of my shelf friends to uh correctly identify this is a ribbed cantharis i don't know i think i might have thought i'd found these i don't know what i ever did i think that's a really cool show and this guy i picked up because it was screaming yellow beautiful yellow prickly cockle oh that's one side's ah it's okay but that other that yellow that was gorgeous and then here looks like we got ourselves a banded tulip we did and this i would consider good for a craft it's a little beat up on that one side so we are making our way up and as i had mentioned previously if you're going to be doing this kind of thing it can be a little treacherous you got stumps you got trees you got branches so just definitely have some shoes on and when i guess i just wanted to show you this is what we're kind of looking at we're looking at cockles and arcs a couple of clams some scallops so lots of opportunities to find goodies for sure and it looks like got myself a little spiny jewel box he's pretty smart he's a little spiky it looks like maybe another tulip yup another banded tulip he's a little chipped up but that is another banded tulip which i'm real happy about i haven't been finding too many of those lately but this trip to marco provided me lots of tulips lots of gaudi's lots of goodies so here we are we're marching south on caice island here's another little top snail we found a bunch of those on the sand bars there's a little tops now and it looks like another tulip yup of course i just the first thing i look for is what kind of condition is this bad boy in and that one's it's okay it's a little tiny bit chewed up on the side and a coney yay now regardless of the condition i mean those can be pretty beat up and i'm still gonna pick it up that is a florida cone he's a little weird on top but that top is a little bent but it was real real pretty lots of color look at these guys these are cloudy periwinkles i have not found a shell of these guys so one of these days hopefully i will but in the meantime i can appreciate these little critters like to hang out in the splash zone yep gauri number two so this is a type of moon snail it's just a colorful moon snail we will find a whole bunch of them this guy this is a spiny slipper snail those little slipper snails are all over the place that happens to be a spiny slipper snail and i think i spy another beautiful oh man that's pretty that is a banded tulip it's fantastic right let's clean it up real quick oh yeah i'm super happy with that gorgeous banded tulip yay all right here's another banded tulip oh that's real pretty too dang it all right just go a little bit tiny chipped up but oh that's that's also a very nice banded tulip all right cool here is the calico scallop and normally those little stripes will be yellow but this guy's kind of got white ones it's kind of neat and another scallop nothing too remarkable about him or her oh a nice pretty dark lightning lock that is awesome what else oh another yay yay another banded tulip all right he's gonna need a little bit of cleaning up but i'm keeping him nonetheless and another gaudy nautica another colorful moon snail so it's typically the same shape as a shark eye but these colors it's kind of got bands going along the side again we're going to find a whole bunch of them check out this guy now what i liked about this guy is the inside is kind of got that orange color so this is a lightning whelk with a real pretty aperture here's another top snail there's a jujube top snail handsome little gal speaking of little look at this little nutmeg beautiful little nutmeg okay it's hinged it's awesome it's a broad ribbed cardita i don't know why i like those guys but i do ooh oh wow all right that's a lace muric's that's you know what i think we're just gonna leave that where we found it there's just too much going on i'm not gonna clean that up but look at this okay this is an apple mirror x oh it's beautiful fabulous color it's in great shape that is an awesome apple mirex and we have a glowing all right it's not really glowing a little horse we'll get rid of that little black stuff and look at the color on this guy so that is a little itty bitty horse conk and an oh yeah it's a pear whelk i thought it was a lightening walk at first but look at the color on that and i kept it i still have it i don't know what i'm gonna do with it i just i don't know i like it and i'll figure out something to do with it that my friends is a slipper snail and that is a spotted variety so that is a spotted slipper snail i'm gonna try to just hold it back it really was so pretty okay back to shelling looks like we got ourselves a pretty oh isn't that pretty that look me looks like a rough scallop oh that's super pretty ooh and another jujube top snail and nobody's home that is a fabulous little shell and another one all righty we found a whole bunch of them very cool oh and another scallop oh that's real pretty it's probably a calico i don't know for certain but sure is pretty and here it a little bitty lace mirror x i was looking at i'm trying to figure out is that anything special about that i don't think so i think it's just a little just a little lace mirrors cute little guy and here is a live spiny jewel box and i have found one of these guys alive before so i kind of wanted to see if you'd open up and maybe show us shows a nice smile or something so i'm going to hang on to that for a minute and see if we can check out what's going on inside that up another colorful moon snail that is gaudy nautica number four and see on the side it's kind of got variations yup number five now this you can actually see it a little bit better when i kind of hold it am i gonna turn it there we go see can i see those stripes oh i just think that's really cool all right the jewel box decided not to open up and so i wasn't going to carry him around all day he probably wants to go back in the water so we'll leave him be and another banded tulip woohoo i like those and another yeah i'm doing fantastic on the banded tulips and what's ooh an apple murax and i see an operculum so that means there's a critter in there and that has to go back in the water there's a critter can't take it home but we'll take that banded tulip and look at this just sitting there i love when i find shells like that it's a florida cone i do love me some nice cones just sitting there waiting for me to stroll by and i kept doing this the whole time and so let's just do a little montage of beauty [Music] okay got that out of my system i just wanted to show you how pretty it was that was a little chipped up banded tulip there's a little bubble i haven't seen those in a while little bubbles i'll grab some of those okay here we go it's super dry but check this out i see something shiny and olive that's why these guys are so awesome they're naturally shiny and that's because the critter comes out kind of wraps itself around the shell to kind of protect it and keep it shiny another one very cool all right that side not so pretty so i'm probably going to save that for some sort of craft but this side oh yeah oh gorgeous oh another here's a lace mirrors not in perfect shape but i'm still keeping it because those are relatively rare for me and here is a florida fighting conch i can find a million reasons to love these guys as it got almost half novelis and another cone all right kiss is being so kind thank you kai silent you are awesome another gaudy nautica this would make it gory nautica number six beautiful another cone yep another florida cone and i'm really kind of inspecting he's he's a little beat up but i'm still going to keep it ah this is a juvenile florida fighting conch and i was going bananas over the coloring on this you kind of had um sorry vertical stripes on it ah just loved it and another murax looks like we got ourselves another apple murax all right he's in pretty good shape real nice color and i spy another mirex oh oh yes beautiful that's a great size that green will come off with a little bleach no problem oh so happy with that yay and gaudy nautica number seven all right colors not quite as colorful as some of those other ones we've picked up oh like this one for example here we go number eight he's a little bit more colorful but man i just gotta like those gaudies and it looks like i found myself a beat up apple mirrex that's just a hole i'm not going to pick that off yeah he's seen better days i'm still going to keep it and check this out it was this beautiful purple color oh it is sitting in nature just hanging out there i was beautiful so i had to pick it up let's take a peek and take a better look at what we got here okay a calico scallop with a little yeah little carry shell pick right off that barnacle will too and oh man beautiful yep i'm gonna keep this guy too he's a little chewed up but this is gory norika number nine and carr see those stumps there really be careful if you do this here we go there's a here's a florida cone we did good we found quite a few of those today and all right this is just a piece of a rosemary x but there's it for me they're extremely rare i've never found a whole one so i'm always even happy if i found the piece another cone another florida cone woohoo awesome he's in great shape and then another tops now okay another jujube top snail and to wrap up our little tour guarding nautica number ten so kind of a bummer we had to leave i mean we had to leave at some point it's getting about three o'clock in the afternoon temperature is in the high 70s it is beautiful and we've been up and out there since early since before the sun came up so it was time to kind of close out this amazing incredible beautiful day and we're going to paddle back to the marina and then i headed back home and check this out my husband made this cool bench thank you husband so now i have a different area to kind of put my stuff and clean them off so i'm really psyched with this new bench that i have so let's go through all of our goodies now we started out alphabet cone which was so cool and then we had the sand dollars and all those lightning whelks that cool rib canthras he's hiding in there the periwilks the florida fighting conchs then the colors we had some sunray venus some yellow prickly cockles all those cones which were so cool the shark guys the mirrex the olives the horse kong spiny jewel box couple nutmegs whole bunch of banded tulips a couple of scallops we got ourselves some real pretty goodies some augers some top snails and a whole bunch of gaudy nordica so guys thank you this for me was amazing to go out and be able to share this with you i appreciate everything you do especially my patreons thank you now as far as next week i'm not really sure what i'm going to be able to share with you so it'll be a little bit of a surprise so until then have a great week see you next sunday