Shelling in Florida + Virtual Beach Walk. Little Hickory Island Beach Park, Bonita Springs Florida.

hi beach friends today we're gonna hit the beach we're going to a place called little hickory island beach park i was talking with another sheller and she said she had some pretty good luck here so i figured hey i'd only been here once let's go back and check it out i probably could have done a better job paying attention to the tides but that's all right any day on the beach is a good day right and did manage to find this and a couple critter encounters so let's go to the beach [Music] [Applause] [Music] so here we are at little hickory island beach park in bonita springs florida i had mentioned i didn't really time the tides great it was high tide at 6 17 a.m and we're getting there at about 8 19 a.m so about two hours after high tide so that won't be in our favor but it still looks like it's going to be a pretty day looks like shelling in the water at least here probably not going to be an option so we'll just keep walking see what we find along the way all right not a piece of a shark eye or is it a whole nope just a piece it's kind of cool i got like that candy swirl going on oh a lace mirror x i do not find them all the time so i'm always pretty excited when i find these guys that's a pretty good find a piece of coral it's always kind of neat are there little small things we gonna find oh this weird oyster oh that's neat like a giant hand what else we got looks like a piece of an apple murex oh well i'll just keep looking so there were little piles but they were little and lots of clams and so the stuff we're going to pick through we'll probably just find on the smaller side check the scallop out he kind of stuck out because of his color and most of the other stuff looks like just kind of your comments what do we got here turkey wing or mossy ark i don't have those down quite yet so let me know what that was i got a worm snail it's kind of cool it's a little twisty guy oh looks like a little gold golf oyster drill what else we got another little shark guy oh it's a whole one this time with that little candy swirl thing going on he wasn't even snacked on cool and juvenile florida fighting with his little ribs okay this is a broad ribbed cardinal he also had some nice color in this guy pear wilk well half a pair well so there's a couple of these jetties at this beach and it's relatively easy to kind of just walk over them so it's kind of cool it's like you reach a beach then you reach another beach and another beach the beach that keeps on giving speaking of which looks like my husband found a scallop a lightning welcome a couple warm snails look at this guy shark eye oh he's awesome he's big he wasn't snacked on pretty color yay and look at this the piles the shells were piled up so much oh might as well pick up this lightning walk while i'm here well it's a little broken but there were definitely piles of shells look i found this piece of alphabet cone just a piece check it out keep on moving and i like to check all the nooks and crannies one of the better shells i found was wedged in a stump of a of a tree near the shoreline so i like to make sure i kind of check it all out look at the way the shells are piled up and look fishermen don't care isn't that hilarious and we have a decent sized lightning whelk but definitely seen better days oh all right i know he's okay so i'll check him out in a minute we're gonna take a look at this florida fighting see if there's anything kind of cool going on with him um he's kind of chewed up and he's got a hole we'll leave him but i had to go back for this shark guy oh yeah awesome see if he's been snacked on if he's chipped at all maybe just a tiny bit but oh he's pretty he's got great color and just one more shot because it's so pretty all right kept it moving and found another little lightning well it's got a nice color and look at this i my husband found it and i got over there the first thing i did was pull off this piece which i think now is glue because i do not think that that is native to here i reached out and someone identified this as a turatella glucostoma and since this is not native to florida this is probably just something that was left after a beach event oh well keep keep looking gorgeous day didn't do great with the tides but really we did good with the weather all right we found the scallop who's got a little hitchhiker of sorts kind of adhered to him that's a little different and what do we got a little lightning walk just a wee little guy looks like we got a nutmeg someone recently asked me the difference between a nutmeg and a tulip and those nutmeg see how bumpy it is they always are going to have those bumps and they're always going to be that color and most of the lace murex well about a little more than half of a lace muric's too bad i love those guys they're so pretty but he's a little chewed up oh well what else we got it looks like i'm grabbing two things yep a lightning welk and a florida fighting conk all right this year one of the middle guys oh that to me looks like an albino lightning walk i find them kind of regularly which is interesting cool and a big old hunk of coral that's kind of neat we got a whole bunch of dishes with coral in them all over our house my husband likes them oh he's kind of pretty this is a juvenile florida fighting conch it's got that cool horizontal white line going across him he's relatively clean and pointy i like him and sand dollar hey buddy yeah this guy is alive so he's gonna have to go back in the water oh a giant atlantic cockle that is attached they're kind of neat those guys do get huge so i know i said it was the tide was relatively high but this is a very very shallow beach and so i'm still able to really walk pretty far out there in the water and only be you know less than waist high it's a flat beach and of course with the beach you get your birds another sand dollar although this guy looks like i can keep him oh yeah he is no longer with us and so he can be kept here it looks like we have a pairwilk an oyster a scallop and a worm snail of some sort and then there's there's this young bird that's begging from mom look or dad he's following him complaining feed me feed me and the adult is having none of it all right it looks like we got another scallop oyster and a warm snail cool and an olive that is not golden and is broken with no top oh well i figured let's take a peek and a lightning whelk that has seen better days he's missing all sorts of pieces but just check them out another scallop most of them it's only chipped in a couple places it's kind of a slow day today another lightning look this was taped all the way back october 10th so this is before tigertail and before some of the other videos there's some sarahs and there's another broad ribbed cardina he's kind of pretty ah yeah it was a pretty day oh little scallop a little beige guy with some pink in there and that is a mossy arc all right that one's not going to fool me that i know is not a turkey wing but that earlier one that that was tripping me up a little bit and oh i thought it was a tulip oh true tulip look at the color isn't that pretty oh well oh an apple mirex most of an apple mirex nice color he's got a couple holes but he's still pretty and then it looks like this was in my husband's pocket it's gaudy nautica cool another nice little find of the day and a little olive kind of shiny not too pointy but and then someone asked us this is a gopher torter i'm sorry a gopher tortoise and he does not go in the water i did know that some woman had found him in the parking lot and asked us if we would move them and we would be more than happy we love our beach critters we want to make sure that this guy is safe when you go to a lot of the beaches down here you will see signs that ask you to check under your cars so you don't run these poor little guys over so we just wanted to get them back out of the parking lot safely into what we could get as far as brush and whatnot so if you ever find one of these guys don't put them in the water and just kind of get them off to the side make sure he doesn't try to cross the street there he is safe and content of course we checked him out for a little while i want to make sure he was okay so we were done with bonita beach but we weren't really done with the beach so we took a hike over to fort myers beach and see if there was anything else that we could add to our shell collection and as it turns out it's pretty slow over there too but we did find this guy in the middle of nowhere he was like a mile down the beach and there's no way for him to get any fresh water so we took him with us we carried we named him alejandro alejandro came with us we found him a foot shower some fresh water we uh kind of cleaned him up a little bit or just sprinkled some water on him and got him into the bushes and where is he there he is so hopeful hopefully alejandro can carry on his little lizard life so that was our walk we found a couple of good things bunch of those worm snails some scallops and some lightning walks those shark eyes those are probably my favorite of the day that weird turatella shell that was kind of unusual so and some critters so what was not to like it was pretty day got a couple of free souvenirs met some critters so all in all i'm gonna go with a big thumbs up although i know moving forward i'm going to be finding much better shells and i found the coolest shell and i cannot wait to share it with you that's going to be coming soon so make sure you subscribe i don't want you to miss any beachy goodness