Finding sea shells at Tigertail Beach, Marco Island! Sand dollars, shark eye, apple murex & SCALLOPS

hello beach friends we are going to explore a brand new beach one we have not been to before so that's gonna be really fun and we're gonna show you how we found all these little souvenirs laying all over the beach welcome to another swf beach life video if you like shelling in the beach and things beach related i recommend you do subscribe because i drop a new video every single week so we are at tiger tale beach this is in marco island we just like to take a little trip down there i had heard the shelling was pretty good here so i definitely wanted to come check it out you can see there's parking which is eight dollars per car they have this fun little cafe there which is kind of cool i was hoping that afterwards we could uh maybe go get a beer but we'll just see what happens at the end of the video so they do have this cute little outpost and get some snacks and drinks and whatnot but uh it was early in the morning and we were really just wanting to get down to the beach so tigertail was very different because there's kind of a lagoon area so it's a lagoon also it's on the gulf so if you look here this is where we were that's the beach and then see the lagoon there in front of it and if you wanted to get to the beach you got to walk all the way around and that's going to be your access so it's a pretty long walk now i did see some people traverse the lagoon here they did manage to get right through that's going to depend really on the tides and how deep the water is when you're there but just something to keep in mind you're going to be doing quite a bit of walking we went all the way up to the tip up there so just sit back and i'll tell you all about it i love the fact that they're promoting no live showing so here's the lagoon area um [Music] again it's not the gulf look what we found though and we're not even on the beach and i mean there's sand there and there's shells and whatnot so that was a pretty spectacular shark eye we'll take a look at that a little bit later as well so at this lagoon area they had a whole bunch of fun things to to rent they had like these bicycles for lack of a better term with these giant wheels on them they also had some kayaks some stand-up paddle boards so you could come here and definitely um you know find something to do for a couple hours that was kind of fun so here we are we're traversing to the beach i told you it was a long walk and you'll see some of those little crabs just kind of running for cover and so we walked and walked and walked we finally got to the beach and there were you know stuff on the beach that was kind of cool and again it's been a little slow um here we have a little piece of a shark eye and you never really know what you're going to get it all depends here is a turtle nest it looks like these guys do not have coyotes because i do not see that wire on top of the nest and here we have a little sand dollar somebody gifted that to us which was nice there's an osprey and here's a round rib scallop it's broken but it's flat and i don't find them often so i'm going to pick that up because that's kind of neat here we have another scallop and there's that shark eye that we found earlier all cleaned up that's awesome yeah really happy with that guy so as i was saying you never really know what you're going to find sometimes you can just find shelves by the boatload but it all depends on the tides and the winds and if there's been storms so we had to do quite a bit of hunting to find something like this here's a little florida horse conch a little baby guy here we have a scallop oh and another kind of pretty looks like he could use some acid if you ask me and we have a little calico clam oh that's pretty too i believe that is a rough scallop that looks looks pretty and here we have pretty big jingle that is a common jingle and an auger so there were some goodies if you were willing to kind of poke around there's a florida fighting conch with a shell stuck in there he's got some stuff on him i'm not going to keep him we'll save him for somebody else take a look at the scallop he's kind of cool i want another okay that's a calico scallop but he's got a little bit too much extra stuff for my taste and oh that's kind of neat purple and gray we'll leave that for someone else there's another florida fighting conch we'll rinse him off right he's a little bit all right he's got something going on the inside so we're not gonna keep him we'll just keep keep looking look at this this is a black kitten's paw unless i'm mistaken that is a kitten's paw that has absorbed all that black color from the sand it's kind of neat there's another scallop and looks like yay yay a florida cone not in perfect condition but it's been a little slow today so i'm gonna be real happy with that and some more jingles okay here we have a sun ray venus i honestly never really connected why they called these sun ray venus but now looking at this guy i get it okay this guy's kind of cool i believe that this is a young southern quahog someone helped me out on a shelf from a previous video and that's what i'm thinking that guy is that's a scallop i love learning about all these different there's so many shells so many all right that is just a piece of a true tulip that would have been awesome but it's just a piece one day one day i'll find something that big all right i had to get a little grabby and i thought i was going for a lightning welt but it was only just a piece we have another scallop and another kind of fun color okay this guy was kind of not sure but after looking at the back definitely turkey wing and a little auger and some more jingles it was really really windy the weather was a little nutty on this day so we were had to hold on to the little shells they'd go flying all right here we have a crown conch or a piece of a crown conk that has seen better days and a juvenile florida fighting conch and another i'll leave that for someone else all right another scallop no idea what this is no clue i tried to figure it out and i couldn't if anyone knows if you wouldn't mind leave me a comment that'd be great but i thought that was kind of pretty okay we have another scallop all right let's clean this up i like those base scallops yeah it's got some stuff but probably nothing a little acid couldn't take care of right and another scallop again thinking that's a rough scallop and there's my orange i like that orange and it's absorbed all over that black so that's kind of cool the sun came out and i found this lovely scallop okay another sunray venus now check this out this guy's kind of like a brown color for all intent and purposes this next one look how purple it is weird i wonder if that's because of the food that they eat no idea but it's kind of neat okay here we have an alphabet cone which would be a really great find i mean it is a great find shell is definitely not uh it's not perfect but that's okay oh florida another uh horse florida horse lots of stuff but i'm keeping him it's kind of neat a little lightning walk a wee little guy and another scallop and another all right what do we got here yay something different okay this is a top snail it's a little guy i don't even know how i found that but that's a little top snail here we have another scallop pretty orange color another scallop oh while we're here let's just pick up this third one and why not a fourth right we're here all right let's see what that looks like cleaned up oh that's kind of neat i like the colors these different fabulous scallops all right what do we got here all right another florida fighting conch and then we've got ourselves another ribbed scallop a round rib scallop the flat guys not a zigzag oh a nutmeg i love how twisty they are on the inside that's fun and another tops now looks like i found an olive i did it's a little guy and this is a bummer that's a pear whelk the color on it is fabulous but the shell has clearly seen better days so i'm not going to keep that just kind of appreciate the pretty color and put them back all right what do we got here okay nice that's another calico scallop and another oh and a crab he's just kind of scuttling along most of an apple mirrex that's too bad but and from that angle looks good right another one another black kitten's paw unless i'm misidentifying that cookie so it was a really stormy day kind of rain a little off and on but it's summer it wasn't cold or anything it was just kind of making sure we're not getting hit by lightning that's always a bonus and here we have a five-hole keyhole sand dollar those are the ones that we find down here there's another one called a notched sand dollar which i've never seen down here only these five-fold keyhole guys here's a calico clam and another sand dollar when i first heard of marco island my understanding was that was where you went if you want to get sand dollars and as we're you know finishing our day i definitely found that to be true now this guy was neat because of the way it was broken on the back there you see there's five bird shaped elements collectively known as aristotle's lantern so i thought that was kind of interesting that this guy was just broken in a way where you can kind of see inside and really kind of get a look at that here we have a little rough scallop and another calico scallop i believe that guy is another sand dollar he's in great shape let's probably bleach him and seal him and here we have an olive okay so as we're wrapping up tiger tail i guess what i have to say is if you're going to come here bring a buggy or something and prepare to walk far unless you're okay with that lagoon area in which case you're not going to have to walk far at all and you'll be able to get snacks and a beer but if you're looking for shelling and you want to kind of do some beach combing you're going to have to walk so just keep that in mind if you're going to be visiting this fine place known as tigertail beach so as we wrap this up here's all the goodies i didn't show you the way i found all those scallops there were just so many of them but i did find that huge shark eye was awesome and that sunray venus got ourselves a couple of sand dollars some of those flat scallops a bunch of calico scallops some augers the florida horse conch the top snails that most of the apple murax so you know what it's we did a lot of walking and i don't care it was a lot of fun it was it's always fun to go see something different right so thanks as always guys i so appreciate you guys watching your comments everything i'm so happy to bring these videos to you and i'll see you again next week