Virtual Beach Walk + Shelling at Bowman's Beach Sanibel. Tips for finding shells in rough surf.

okay sanibel beach lovers guess where we're headed today if you had guests annabelle you would have guessed correctly here we are going over the centerville causeway which will bring us over to sanibel island and we're gonna go look for shells and critters and whatnot welcome to another swf beach life video if you like the beach and you like shells and you like critters and things like that i do recommend you hit subscribe and notification bell because i bring you a new video every single week so we're going to start off kind of like we usually do over at bowman's beach i know lately we've been at marco island fort myers but i really was kind of itching to get back to santa belle and see what it had in store for us so once we hit that beach it's always nice to see that there are shells there i'm gonna start picking through that and see if we have any keepers all right here we have a bay scallop good sign makes me know that there's gonna be stuff in here to find so like i said there were definitely shells there and we're just going to kind of hunt through for keepers found a piece of a shark eye that's too bad that would have been a really good one and here we are making our way up the beach it's weird it feels like we should be walking north but we're actually walking northwest oh pretty scallop beautiful purple color easy to find in that wash here we have a juvenile florida fighting conch he's super pretty hello zigzags on him what do we got here that's an apple murex oh yay and a tulip all right let's clean those off oh man those are fabulous finds very happy with that been a little slow lately but uh those are great let me have some scallops and always depend on those scallops and we are going to talk about why it's been a little slow in the summer as i'm looking at these florida fighting it's the wind it's all about the wind the wind in the summer actually tends to push the shells back out into the ocean whereas the wind in the winter tends to push the shells up onto the beach so you're gonna find shelling a lot easier you're gonna find a lot more different specimens when you're shelling in the winter than you are in the summer i've always managed to find really cool things even though it's you know not as plentiful as it is in the winter but that does explain a little bit why it's a little tougher to find things like this but every once in a while it is absolutely possible to uh to turn up some gems here we have a little serif this is kind of neat another scallop i know about the colors on those scallops speaking of a bright orange guy but yeah he's a little chipped and pitted so we'll just put him back here we have another one another calico scallop kind of neat and that too looks like another base gallop and another so me again based out he's a little more beat up on the edges but he's still pretty oh all right i know he's a little pitted but he's orange you know how i feel about orange i'm gonna keep that oh real pretty 10 i love those hours and another oh i like the pattern on that guy i found a couple like that today so we'll see a couple more like that and here i know a lot of people say it feels like i'm there so i just want to let you enjoy a minute or second really of some quiet time and remind you to subscribe if you haven't done so already okay now back to it we've got this cool really barnacled up calico clam that is a that's a great example of a bunch of those um striped acorn barnacles whoa that's like glowing beautiful orange shell and shark eye well oh well the top of a shark eye yeah we'll put him back oh looks like i see an olive oh man look at that color beautiful golden olive and that color isn't so bad either i know it's a little stuff on it that was pretty looks like my husband made a deposit we got some juvenile fighting conch we have some augers a lightning walk that's not colored real well and two orange shells those are scallops look at this guy it looks like a heart on the bottom doesn't it yeah we'll call that the heart calico scallop all right i was getting a little grabby in the wash and i managed to find that lightning milk so once i cleaned that up yeah that's a cool little guy see that's another one of those calicos with that sun ray kind of pattern going on so you can see there's a lot it was it was it's fun shelling like this because it's really really challenging but it also can be quite uh what's the word frustrating but i managed to get that guy that was kind of cool and this turkey wing looks like we got another yeah pretty colored scallop and then a cowboy clam up yep i knew i was going for that guy look at that how could i resist see another i did really well with those today it's all about the colors after i pick up the serif take a look at him definitely going back to that pink one yeah real pretty found another orange guy and got grabby and managed another orange guy they're easy to see some of those other sand colored shells not so much look at that rough scallop oh man that is cool i rinsed him off and that is an awesome example of a rough scallop and look teeny tiny kitten paw okay there we have a paper fig i don't find those all the time those delicate little guys haven't seen one in a while so i figured he's seen better better days but for take a look at him anyway again with this lightning well he's also seen better days he's got some stuff going on the inside but i haven't found too many of those lately so i figured we'd at least take a look here we have another one here's another lightning look not as pretty as the previous but still a keeper here we have some some sandy olives and we managed to make it all the way up to buying pass other people enjoying the lovely day people picking through those shells mostly common clams and whatnot except for this guy the tulip all right color's not great but it's still a tulip and that's a keeper cool sarah all right a day like today it definitely would have been advantageous if we had had our scooper with us but to be fair it's not really fun like walking all these miles with this giant scooper so we were just kind of winging it we just had our hands and our wits and we were just kind of scooping what we could right out of that surf here we have a calico clam oh a shark eye yay it's a fun little find now i wanted to show you look at this guys that's the silver key signs and normally like a couple months ago i was way way far away from those signs so the beach has changed a lot i really wish that were a lion's paw but it's not it's just an oyster yup now we have another one of those like sunburst looking calico scallops [Music] another shark eye well most of a shark guy yeah he's pretty rough we're probably gonna put him back maybe somebody else can enjoy him oh a calico box crab love these guys aren't they fun i just i like their their pattern they're like this i don't know cheetah print crab i think they're really cool they're little guys only get to about four inches and after our visit with him we'll pick up this olive he's not perfect but that's okay what about that guy they're juvenile fighting i think it's hard to tell sometimes with those little guys all right so if you guys ever find yourself in this kind of situation and you're shelling like this note that the water tends to not come straight at you see how it's kind of drifting to our right so if you see a shell and you want to kind of chase it down the beach you're going to need to kind of keep moving to the right so you can kind of keep up with the shell and hopefully eventually grab it like this lace mirex it's not quite as lacy as it was i'm sure at some other point but still a fabulous shell this little bb olive and i wanted to show you guys these layers look at that just the layers of shells just buried oh why not i also grabbed this auger while i'm here right it's a big one oh and a dolphin visit they're way out there but they're there there's quite a bit of quite a few of them actually hard to see but they're there oh they found this guy too he was kind of moving a little slow this is a speckled crab they look like a blue crab but obviously they're not they're speckled one is a little slow i figured maybe some water can help them out another really bright orange shell bright orange scallop not that olive but this one yes all right and we're going to wrap this up with this apple mirrex that is a fantastic find great color another great show so this was my haul for the day not too bad considering it was summer and not much to be found a bunch of real colorful calico scallops and some rough scallops i love the orange guys some augers a couple sarahs those murax which is really cool couple of lightning walks not paper fig lots of olives calico clams that oh the tulips how could i forget the tulips those are probably the uh that was probably my favorite finds of the day so guys thank you so much for watching i appreciate your support and your kind comments 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