A shell tour on a deserted island. Hunting beach treasures on a beautiful Florida island.

hello Beach friends we're going to go on a gorgeous Beach walk today but before we do I wanted to tell you that I personally stopped waiting I stopped waiting for that magical thing in the future to come and make me happy I found a quote that did a pretty good job of summarizing this for me stop waiting for Friday for summer for someone to fall in love with you for life happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and you make the most of the moment you are in now so I don't wait anymore I am going to make today the best day ever and I'm going to bring you along with me what are we going to do well I'm glad you asked because we're headed to kis Island an uninhabited Island nestled in the 10,000 Island system in Southwest Florida we're going to be beach combing looking for seashells and boy oh boy do we find a few really awesome specimens so if you're ready to see what all is out there for us today let's go to the beach [Music] [Music] yes I am thrilled to be here because there's tons of seashells at my feet and I've been stuck in the house for like a week it had been raining here and raining and raining but it CH up some stuff so today should be fun all right yeah I figure all the tours are coming through here yeah that probably it looks really impressive but it's just a pile of stuff that's probably been here and picked through but that's okay we have an entire island of seashells to look for Florida cone look how cool this one is and it's in really good condition Florida cones are super hard to find not all cracked up oh that's great a great Florida cone yep I already see our next yep a lace mirx oh yeah you're kind of missing some pieces I'm going to keep you anyway I've actually started collecting a little bit differently and I'll explain that in in a little bit later look how pretty that one is so that's a Florida Fighting Conch and it is gorgeous it's got all the little check marks for me it's a little zigzaggy it's pointy it's oh it's so pretty there we go there's an angel wing that isn't all busted up and full of barnacles I don't know how so I kind of want to wash it off CU I can't quite tell ah it's probably fine and what do we got here okay a moon snail look how weird the color is so this has been here for a little while yeah isn't that funny I'm going to keep it I'm totally keeping that like cream colored moon snail okay parel you're broken B no that is a coffee mampus oh Isn't that cool I almost called that a bubble well that is awful neat oh that those are bubbles not to be confused so there is one coffee mampus in the middle two bubbles left and right here is an apple MX yeah now I definitely want to find some water all right anything else here I need to wash off all right I don't feel like going all the way down there so I'm going to kind of look for a little puddle here we go all right Apple mirx ooh look at how angular you are nice and pointy yeah I wash those off too cuz why not I'm here I I hopefully I wash off that angel wing too now this was there I didn't want to forget cuz sometimes I just get all wrapped up and the shells the shell will be right there I'll forget to grab it so before I forget I wanted to grab this apple mic yep it's gorgeous and then I finally washed that that angel wing yeah okay cool looking good angel wing oh and then look at what do we got here oh I thought I don't know what I thought it was but it is a West Indian false serth I actually thought maybe a lad horn snail that's what I thought it might have been pretty cool West Indian false sarth well hello there ribbed canis aren't you pretty I've been finding those orange varieties of that shell okay you see the little Fighting Conch a little juvenile Fighting Conch excellent okay A little tulip yeah little banded tool you're quite cute oh little top no I thought it was a top snail what are you okay that is a Cayenne Keyhole Limpet it's got a little little extra hole I'll probably just leave that here okay there's a tops now yeah that's a top snow all right a couple of little goodies in that little stoop all right feel like today is definitely going to be a good day oh my goodness it's beautiful holy cow so yes this is what is around me as I'm bending down kind of going through all of these little piles look at this island so it had been raining I was really glad to finally get out here and that's why last week I said I don't know where I'm going to be cuz it had been raining so much so K it was okay cute little moon snail okay that is a true shark eye and a banded tulip yeah it needs a date with bleach and that's fine it's a little moon snail a little banded tulip okay in case you were wondering it is still beautiful here but let's do a little check-in on the tide and the weather so the app my weather channel app would not connect so it is windy about 90 degrees out it was hot and the tide is low it's 0. 29 it was pretty hot that yeah it's uh it's summer it's Florida it's hot all right lightning Welk oh oh that's a nice looking lightning Welk if I do say so myself very common I still can't resist them oh a goty natica also known as a colorful moon snail this is one of the seashells I really look forward to finding when I come down here they're pretty common down here the colorful moon snail lettered Olive yeah yeah they're they're here I was busy picking them up and figured I'd just let you know yes the lettered olives are here too we have them glossy and pointy and another shell that I can't resist a worm snail oh those are terrific there's a couple different kinds of worm snails I believe that one is the West Indian worm snail not to be confused with the Florida worm snail that is not confusing at all spiny Jewel box oh how purple on the bottom so that's a spiny Jewel box those are pretty awesome down here you can find them hinged so sometimes it's a two for one kind of deal another Florida cone are you complete yeah and you're beat up too yeah that's typically how the Florida cone the condition of them they must have very exciting lives they are Rebels those Florida con cones and I hope this is whole see oh it is little Horse Kong the Florida State shell the Florida horse conch cute little thing it's always yeah those are one of the ones that get real big everyone's always hunting for the big ones I kind of like the little ones myself and I think that's what I'm hunting for right here another horse conch little itty bitty one what else yes so that's an itty bitty horse con that little yellow one then we also have a little Dusky cone and a Florida worm snail kind of get all freaked out it's a spiral at the top and then the bottom just gets all weird Florida worm snail that is another Bottom's a little weird on that one too that was a little lightning wel okay so at this point I'm like you know what sometimes I feel like if you just stare at a pile the shelves will kind of reveal themselves and so that's what I did I started staring at the pile and sure enough a goty natica popped out okay fantastic I know that those are here all right it needs a little help I don't care I'm going to keep that and I'm going to go back I'm going to stare at the pile again all right I did it this time I saw the Apple MC awesome all right cool and I'm like all right what else is here and I did I just started staring at the pile and all of a sudden the shelves would kind of reveal that is another ribbed canis all right that's going to need help with bleach that's okay all right back to staring at the pile this time oh I found two things and I didn't want to lose them okay apple mirx and a top snail so those are probably the last two from staring at the pile but it was funny it was a fun exercise you just kind of stare at the pile and then all of a sudden the shells just kind of appeared oh alternate tellon yeah there were tons of them so that is an alternate ton kind of looks like an oversized rose petal telon yeah there was a lot of them they're they've been hanging out here a while so those are a little bit dried they look kind of dry they're not like glossy Oh see now there's one of those hinge spiny jewel boxes yeah the hinge I'm going to try to leave it like that I'm going to put that in my delicates container to try to keep the hinge well I don't know why just because this kind of looks like a fun way to keep that shell oh look how pretty you are calico scallop with a little bit of Orange and Beach stuff man that beach stuff picked right off I just I caution you if you do that be careful don't use your thumb cuz you you could cut yourself I hate when I do that okay what do we have oh oh please let this be and I was hoping it was a rose mirx would you look at that so for me this is like I'm going to try to be calm here and not like freak out this is like a bucket shell bucket list shell look at at the little oh my goodness the little spikes on the tail oh in the top it's so pretty so that my friends is a rose mirx sometimes the bottom will be um broken off and you definitely don't always get those little spikes on the tail oh my God that's the most perfect one I've ever found I'm so excited oh that was awesome same color that's a that's a a Florida horse con so yeah I'm still like Overjoyed about the rose MCS I'm still happy about this you are adorable you're coming with me what else oh look at you so some lace mxes yeah they are just the laziest oh it's so pretty it's dirty I'm going to have to clean it up but gorgeous lace MCS kis you're too good to me another angel beautiful island there's a couple I don't have the whole place to myself there are a couple other people here this is probably alive yes so I will leave you there actually I'm not it's kind of hot so I'm going to bring you and I'm not going to drop you in a little puddle because those are hot too I'm going to get you into the Gulf my friend so I got all the way down there we go there you go even though the gulf is a little bit warm too still not as warm as some of those puddles they can really kind of get hot beautiful Bas scallop and I know it's broken I don't care this time I'm going to hold on to that lovely broken Bay scallop now that is a lovely example of an alternate telon I was picking up those kind of dry ones earlier I I think they're kind of pretty and sometimes they'll have a little bit of like a splash of yellow on the back of them the alternate ton oh love lovely Bay scallop that is just lovely they're also really fun to dip in acid they come out so good so that's a Bas scallop oh good Another Empty Apple MX oh you're in great condition so oh we have a little weird buggy n i I left that at kis what do we got here a horse conch oh you are nice you're not quite pony that's a great size though oh it's lovely so is another gorgeous now sometimes there that's a horse conch but they can be yellow or orange that one was a little bit on you can get them albino too this I would have kept that it's broken it was just so shiny and pointy Oh yay another angel wing awesome now some of them once they get I see another one I'm going to check out the smaller angel wings I started putting them in my uh delicin container the the larger ones are okay that one's broken yeah but the ones that are smaller I'd say anything small smaller than like 2 or 3 inches I put in my delicates container and that nutmeg I know it's a little bit beat up I'm going to keep it anyway yep I'm starting to collect a little bit differently ship all right I saw the bottom of that is one of those colorful moon snails oh look at that just beautiful white Calico scallop beautiful white alternate Talon so a couple of white what do we and we'll round this off with a a scallop couple of great byy valves Florida [Music] con nice color H I got to wash you off let's see if I can find a puddle or something all right found the gulf and you are great you're kind of missing a little piece of your bottom but this time I don't care I'm going to hold on to you and ladies and gentlemen the view is ridiculously beautiful so I'm going to be quiet and I'm going to let you enjoy some beach time now if you're one of my regulars and I've been to kis um what's really fun and for me is normally there's tons of seash shells but they're not like on the beach per se like where the water is they tend to get pushed way up on to the beach so it's funny when you Shell at kis it's I'm not typically in the water which is like my favorite place to go shelling all the seashells are kind of up up on the rack lines and stuff so just kind of interesting you know one of the most shiest islands I know doesn't have shells in the water go figure oh my goodness it's beautiful here so I actually shot a couple different Beach Time videos because it was so pretty yeah so believe me at this point I am pinch me I am so happy to be out I'm happy to be here I'm finding beautiful seashells the view is gorgeous I mean does it get better than this I don't know what I can tell you is there is absolutely no place on Earth I would rather be at this very moment I wanted to be there doing what I was doing and it was absolutely beautiful so lucky all right we got another big mama here when you find the bigger lightning welks those are going to be females yep going leave you right where you are let's see maybe we can score another Rose MC or an alphabet con the future is bright this a thwarted this is a broken rough scallop and you know what don't care I'm going to keep it anyway you lovely rough scallop you could it be no way I never even considered an albino ribbed caneris whoa that is so cool now the top it's a little I feel like it's pink like it's not white white white white albino I'm still really excited about it cuz I just like the rib canther shells anyway and it's kind of white and I found a second one I was like what okay so I found a pair I get ah are they albino they look like in such great condition I don't know they're going in my special shell box though I will tell you that all right that is a broken lace mirx and it look it looks a lot like an apple mircs when it's kind of broken like that I'm going to keep that anyway even though it's broken let us talk about Periwinkle shells so this is a cloudy Periwinkle shell these little critters they're not really land snails they're not really sea snails little per Winkles and then this shell that is not white well is not completely white is called a white Atlantic semile and I'm just not sure just because they're never like completely white but that is a white Atlantic simile now kais Island for the most part really kind of looks like this it's pretty much a lot of dead trees but hang in there we're going to go to the very south end of kais Island and it's so pretty oh another coffee m campus now you can really kind of get a good look at that so this is the one that I kind of looks like a bubble this one's got some nice color on it so that is a coffee mampus kind of a neat little shell oh there's another one of those ribed caneras so those other two quote unquote albino ones I found here's one that has that regular coloring on it oh it's pretty top snail yep only once have I ever found a live live tops now but that is a collectible one oh fantastic I don't normally get to see Critters on K so these are also cloudy Periwinkles we had picked up one of those seashells earlier and these are the actual snails they tend to stay in the Splash Zone but as oh wait I actually think I see some Mangrove Periwinkles in there too so anyway those are little tiny Periwinkles they kind of typically live yeah how far are they yeah they really got to wait for that tide to come back in so that's what they're kind of doing they're hanging out waiting for the tide to come in they like to hang out where the kind of where the break is in the not under the water not high and dry just kind of somewhere in between okay I'm going to have a shell nerd moment so shell nerds unite this is an Atlantic giant cockle normally they're a lot darker oh look at that it's normally I talk about the cranberry color and this one is just like blush with pink so is it albinistic I don't know it's just a different color and I really loved it I'm going to hold on to that that is a paper fig that is in fabulous condition so yeah those are rather delicate it'll it'll it'll hold up in my bag okay but it's a paper fig oh another angel wing fantastic was it oh you know I'm not surprised when you think about wind events yeah Wind and Rain well we had all that rain not so much wind but wind will absolutely put tons of angels Wings up onto the beach so we're starting to get kind of toward the south end of the island and G we normally don't have a view that looks like this we normally don't see Beach and one of the reasons is because we're normally up on the North End of the island why did we come here well because I only tour with the best I always go out with Ally from swfl Shell guide she is going to research and figure out where the best shot at us getting shells are today it happened to be toward the south end of kais and so we did a different tour never know where I'm going to be and I just trust her she can't guarantee there's going to be shells there but she will do her absolute best to bring you to where she thinks there's going to be the best opportunity for you to find these Florida beach treasur so I always go out with Ally and I'm so happy that I do plus she's a wonderful human being all right what other Treasures are we going to find lightning wel it's a little beat up I completely never checked the pair wel let's look at this lightning wel all right that one looks pretty good all right what about uh-oh oh man I wish we met sooner shark eye right scanning trying not to go too too fast another lightning wel excellent and a third okay all right do a little bit of rinsing throw them in the bag and see what else we can find on this lovely Island ooh this is looking a little wle trappy and I have found wle traps here on the North End of the island so I'll just have to see see what happens to turn up all right looks like a true tulip decided to make an appearance awesome oh that's a fabulous little shell and they're fun to dip in acid too so that's a little true tulip oh cool an egg cockle that's pretty cool this is a common egg cockle they only get so big and it makes sense it's like an egg very smooth I like when the names make sense this is going to be the most pristine dusy cone I've ever found the colors on that I've never seen one in such great condition a little Dusky cone that is awesome guess what guess what that is it's not a little lace mirx and it's not broken it is not an apple mirx it is not a rose MX that is a pitted MX I have only this is only the second one I've ever found the first one I didn't realize I had it until I came home and I was going through my shelves I'm like holy cow found one so that my friends I wouldn't say it's necessarily rare I don't know it's only the second one I've ever found maybe it is so that is a little pitted Mir and this is so fun I am not used to um K looking like this like a little outcropping and kind of like check things out do a little more exploring over here normally we're up wandering around up among those trees and everything so it's nice to actually have a little bit of sand and a little bit of water to to kind of walk around well is there going to be anything here that's the question and I guess I'll answer this one I just I had a little love affair with this Flor to Fighting Conch because it was already naturally shiny and kind of yellow it had a beautiful strongboy Notch and yeah yeah so that Fighting Conch and I had a little conversation that ended up in my shell bag I grabbed this gross garbage I always take garbage that I can carry off the beach and then this is the view just kind of wandering around it was so happy so I'd mentioned a couple times I'm collecting differently I just finished a shell mirror and there were so many opportunities for small like broken shells I could have used so I'm going to probably hold on to just more than I used to collect a little differently that's all oh goodness you're so pretty I'm still always going to hold on to those beautiful bay scallops all right so most of the things we see here there the ponderous arcs so those black and white shells those are ponderous arcs this is a Florida PR cockle yeah I try to go home with at least one of those every time I go to the beach and I came over to check out the shark eye yeah it's kind of yeah it's most of a shark eye was actually much much bigger than that it has broken apart we'll just leave that there and I'll hold on to this awesome Bay scallop so the South and de is absolutely gorgeous I have not been here this is actually the first um the first tour I ever took the first shell tour I ever took I came to the south end of kais Island so that was a brand new experience I was a brand new sheller so coming back again several years later getting to see it was rather nice and what do we got here oh I'm going to unearth a common nutmeg let's see oh good water's right here oh that's a great looking nutmeg fantastic all right so that is a common nutmeg and that is the last shell I collected from kais this day was so beautiful I got some great exercise I was out in nature and I got a lot of really fantastic souvenirs so before we completely leave our water temperature went from about 89 down to about 83 from all of that rain that I had mentioned that we had last week garbage I took 1.6 Oz which equates to .1 lb but it doesn't matter it all adds up so I've removed a little bit over over 51 lbs of garbage off the beach and I've also removed some top snails giant Atlantic cockle the Florida prickley cockle I see a bunch of those lightning welks some of those Florida Fighting con including some small ones and Alternate Talons that egg cockle the Periwinkles going to slide to the right talk about the Apple MC shells there was one weird kitten paw on that muscle shell and then these scallops most of them are the bay scallops and then we get down there was a couple rough scallops a lot of the Calico scallops some of those lettered olives some of those lace M shells then we're going to slide we okay some of the tinies the button snails little horse con we did have a little marginella in there some cocas that West Indian serth there was a crown con the nutmeg the Florida cones the coffee mampus you got a bunch of those up there there's a couple of rib caneris there the true tulip couple of the banded tulips slide down we got some Moon snails the regular shark eyes and the colorful moon snails one pair well some uh worm snails one paper fig one augre some of those angel wings there's both spiny jewel boxes a couple of small tinies in that giant Atlantic and then my favorites of the day were these that Rose mck the pitted Ms that one Florida cone the lace MCS the Dusky cone and those two very white ribbed canera shells which I'm I don't know why I'm not just going to dive in and call them albino but I just think that they're super cool it was a beautiful day I Got Fabulous souvenirs it was really really fun thank you so so much for watching and coming along and patreons you know or I hope you know how much I appreciate you monetarily supporting me allowing me to go out and do things like this thank you from the bottom of my heart next week we are going shelling it is a very very different video I haven't looked at the footage yet but the the term heartwarming comes to mind so I hope you have yourself a great week and I will see you again next Sunday