Virtual Beach Walk + Shelling at Delnor-Wiggins Pass and Fort Myers Beach. Bonus dolphin visit!

hello Beach friends today we are going to visit the del noir Wiggins Pass State Park I'm gonna give you an overview of this Beach and then we're gonna hit a second beach for more shelling and beachcombing welcome to another swf of beach life video if you like critters and shelling and beaches and beach related stuff please hit that subscribe button and the notification bill so you know when I drop a new video this is download Wiggins past State Park this is one of six different parking areas we parked in area number three you'll see they have a barbecue grill they have some picnic tables they do have outdoor showers and facilities so definitely recommend this place pull any of parking the entrance fee per car is six dollars which I thought was a pretty good deal because you can be there all day so this is what the beach looks like you'll see that it just runs along the Gulf there and there's no condos or buildings behind it is nestled right up against natural foliage and trees so it's a really pretty rustic beach very very I definitely recommend going here the day that we went I of course wanted to go showing so I heard this place was pretty good so we figured we'd hit that water and we found a little sand crab that's what we call them up north swell little sand flea and you can see it's very very pretty on the right is where you'll see all that foliage I was talking about someone you're there you're not going to encounter any kind of like I said no condos or hotels or anything like that just very natural beautiful beach so I'm just feeling kind of hopeful see some things on the beach there got ourselves a little volleyball net which is kind of kind of fun right it's early in the morning because that's when we hit the beach so this I found that is a gaudy Nautica fabulous little guy so I was feeling pretty good okay good start here we have a Massey Ark which looks remarkably like a turkey wing and I'm telling you I'm still having a problem telling those two apart here we have one of our little egrets who apparently is very accustomed to people because I didn't seem to bother him much at all and here we have another one of those Massey Ark and a snail looks like a worm snail that's a busted-up tulip but that means that they're there so that's a good sign right that olive I thought that was really really interesting it normally I do not take beat up once but maybe past a certain point that's okay because I like that show here we have another one of those turkey wings if you were in the market for turkey wings this was the day to be at this beach lots of clams and I'm looking for the good stuff so here we have that's a pretty scallop not really capable in my opinion but in the background you'll see this guy getting snack so we figured we'd just share that I'm pretty black scallop I noticed gallop just sitting there waiting to get picked up create a guy nice and big looks like we found a little lightning well and a little olive so there's stuff here right there's another little olive scallop he's kind of neat like gray in that purple color you know let's go there's one of those surprising so Massey Ark and another Massey are here we have a saris like these guys he doesn't have much color going on but it was still kind of cool then some more snail worms what do we got here oh thanks don't some people love them some people hate him every once in a while I'll pick them up I think they're neat there's no little turkey wing guy here we have a sunray Venus it's a little it's attached but that is a fun little shell so we had walked all the way up to the north end and this is where the actual pass is and this is where we found the most shells I can see if it was after a storm or on like a really good day it would be a great spot there's another worm snail here is a broken calico clam more of those turkey wings / nasi arcs looks like we have a broken lightning walk which means they're there so right they could be found yet another one of those wings Oh piece of a pen show so was lovely this is all the way up at the North End so I was thinking if you had summoned if you were visiting here with someone who needed wheelchair assistance this would really really great spot because you can wheel them out almost all the way to the beach to the water edge so I thought that was cool and looks like the husband found a whole bunch of those warm snails and will peace a quarrel or a rock or something I can tell what that is so we're making our way back toward the entrance at this point and I wanted to show you this we're in a different County we are in Collier County I'm usually in Lee County and apparently they mark and protect their turtle nests all differently with the way they put their wire so I just wanted to show you that and if you come I guess it's a good idea to bring your floaties you can just kind of float there in the water you'll see that people are out rather far so it is a it's a very calm and what's the shallow Beach so it definitely is fun for little ones and I thought this was awesome you can get a cheeseburger or nachos delivered right to the parking lot I thought that was really fun so we didn't find much good stuff so we decided to head on over to one of our regular stomping grounds Fort Myers Beach here's a little overview of part of the south end of the beach and we normally do south but this time we're gonna do mid island and we're walking on the beach now there are these dragonflies all over the place we're glad those showed up on video I think hope you can see that I thought that was kind of swell now the reason we're going where we're going is because the day before my husband found all this stuff without even trying so I figured whew that that that's a good sign right so instead of going to the south actually going mid island so we're walking north at this point and that lady has the right idea she's got her umbrella and she's just parked in the water there okay it's not a whole one but a good sign right here we have a shark I don't take that as a good sign and that is a tulip egg casing that tulip snail lays something that looks like that guys I have no flippin idea what that is it was mushy it looked alive so what do I do put it in the water that's what I always do anyone knows what that critter is if you could let me know that'd be great it was very hard to identify and then right after that I found another little blob now that looks more to me like a sea hare but it was let's see it kind of moved there so it's alive but it's like this little ball hmm so I got him in the water - I I never know if these little critters are going to survive or not but darn it I'm going to try all right so here we have a tulip nice size not great shape but again a good sign right here we have a juvenile Florida fighting you know a little bit up there but it's been a slow shell day so I'm not gonna be he's picky this I thought was neat I found these all day long there was an attached docena and he somebody eat him see that hole there yeah maybe a moon snow hard to say a little angel wing the wee little delicate wing and this is a bubble those are pretty ubiquitous you usually find them pretty much all over the place I've seen them on the west coast and they're like the size of your fist they're huge but the ones over here in Southwest Florida are this these little tiny guys how do we get here okay that looks like it was a paper fig those two meet they just seem so delicate I'm always surprising you find a whole one and there we have a that is a prickly cockle and what I find remarkable is how pretty the inside is you have this kind of like basic looking shell but on the inside it's got this beautiful orange and purple colors I find that interesting yet another one attached that guy does not have a drill hole so who knows what happened to that poor critter and this was another thing I wanted to show you really nothing special going on on that side but on the inside it's that pretty yellow color Oh another shark eye yay oh he looks like he's got a drill hole or two he was snagged on but that's all right I'll take the show look at this this Laurie it's broken on the bottom but look it's like this perfect little we urgent I had a hard choice food container with me so he went in there so he would survive my walk I'm not getting beaten up by other shells in my bag yeah right no lightning walk then another juvenile and a bubble and another bubble and another month now or is that a CAUTI Nautica yeah that's a Gordon Nautica you can tell by the markings on it that's a moon snail that has seen better days we've got those so that's fun who do we got here okay here we have a pair well looks like a little baby does see me another one of those connected all right you see it how about now just a little piece so that Apple Marik's was sticking out once you've kind of been shelling for a while you brain definitely recognizes these things so I was pretty happy with that it was almost totally buried but I found it and we have another one of those juvenile Florida Fighting that's in pretty good shape plus it's a slow day so I'll take him and another one of those connected shelves and a broken angel wing womp womp another those little Fighting and a piece of what looks like was a crammed great day for those little baby caught the quarter Fighting an olive who's missing his top I guess it's not that slow for me that guy's kind of he's a little rough well we'll just leave him there okay husbands making a deposit with some pair whelks some worm snail juvenile conk yeah I know that you have an aisle always check to make sure your shells are empty Oh piece of a shark eye and another bubble what do we got here a piece of a tulip which I always take is a good sign it means maybe there's a whole one somewhere all right check this out wait on this side it's purple on the other side wait purple I would have thought there would be the same color on both sides but nope then butterfingers was finally gonna pick up this shark eye little guy he's okay I'm not take him and another one of those I I don't know why I was so surprised but I was how it's just two completely different colors I thought that was kind of cool and another was a little Florida Fighting and a bubble and a bubble and look at this it's a kitten's Paul kind of attached to some sort of clamp well I was kind of interested not I don't think is much of anything in a bubble and another junior finding conch and another so once you were picking through that seaweed there were some little shells in there you can definitely get here's a turbine chestnut turbine and an angel wing yeah go take him right or maybe not and another one of those connected clients shows the docenas ooh and here we have another shark I cleaned him up that's a good one and I think this guy I don't find all that many but I'm pretty sure that guy is a ribbed can therus they look so much like little horse conks and they're like right in between a whole bunch of other shells so I have a hard time identifying that guy not this one though that's a lightning well kind of seen better days so I'll probably just leave him for somebody else a crown conch again we'll leave that for somebody else another one of those juveniles and another good day for those little guys and baby little wee little angel wing it didn't survive I think when I washed it off it broke apart here's another great example of those scallops that are just two completely different colors on either side that's a barnacle cool and here we have a lightening well I'm gonna pen shell eye the colors on that crazy another one of those connected guys not funny the way that you'll just get a whole bunch of the same one too bad it wasn't like giant horse now I picked this guy up I have no idea what that is it was flat on the one side it was a little guy so it was very hard to identify anybody knows what that thing is let me know please yeah look at this guy he's already all like spines removed and what I liked about him is that it was green and purple so I thought that was pretty neat I want to hold onto him and cleaned him up all right and here we have most of what I think is a lace murex hard to tell when you don't have the whole shell there and that is another pear Welk seen better days so this is what I would probably tell you what a pretty day but surprise I'm gonna show you a dolphin it was so fun to finally see him out and I'm gonna give me a minute or two and I'm gonna show you more of him here we have a top snail and a Florida bunch of Florida Fighting a little olive here we have a crown you kind of see you still got color nobody's home you still got some of his little point these on it and here we have a tulip I don't know what made that little that little mark and it may be a bristle worm hard to say but all sorts of stuff going on in the ocean right we'll just leave that for somebody else and here's another example of that two colored scallop really interesting okay this I wanted to show you because that is a yellow prickly cockle no surprise where that guy got his name got all that yellow on the inside and a little on the outside all right what else we gonna find oh this guy I was sad about this guy cuz I had a little something-something on it and I wasn't sure what it was and I was also afraid it might be alive so I left it and it was very sad I will miss you orange show this I thought I just saw a little piece of this show look at that it's like a tiger's eye it's got that beautiful reflective quality to it just an oyster shell but look how pretty I had not seen it I hadn't looked for stuff like that but that was that was kind of remarkable and here we have most of an apple murex it's missing a little parts of his pieces but least you can identify it okay guys look all the way to the left see what that people are in the water see that dark critter that's a dolphin and he is chasing a fish he's gonna get pretty close to us which was really really really cool and he's haunting now if you look closely did I don't know if you saw it but he's chasing a fish that's what he's doing that fish was going all the way in and that dolphin was chasing them if you watch the guy in the Hat here he's going to show you about how big the fish the dolphin was chasing is about that big I love the beach Oh Florida fighting pretty color all spikey nice oh pretty show and here we have maybe a sundial I couldn't really identify this I looked it up don't know what that guy is this lightning look is easy enough to identify here we have a little baby horse still waiting to get my monster one of these days we have another me Rex and Paul it's missing some of its aperture there and another lightning walk that's guys got a real pretty color what's so bad right and an olive he's got his top I'm always checking for that top and then see if there's any cracks on the opening there oh look at the color on that tulip that would have been such a fabulous show but we'll leave it for someone else and this guy to say the same thing that's a banded tulip he's seen better days nice size though bummer here we have another lightning walk all right no looks like they're stand-in there and there's nobody home that's a decent shell and a little olive those olives always have other shells jammed in there it's another lovely olive and I wanted to show you this see that blade area that's a sandbar the beaches this is Fort Myers Beach and it's really fun because you can really get out there and the waters so only up to your knees just kind of neat so guys this is our haul it's a wee little haul I've had better I've had worse but I was you know at the end of the day it wasn't it was just nice to get outside got those cool urgent I don't have a little baby urchin like that so that was kind of fun tons of those juvenile Fighting and the worm shells some me wrecks and scallops a couple those lightning works oh no I'm gonna say thumbs up it was always good to be out and running around and I'm glad I got to introduce you to a new Beach so as always you guys Rock I appreciate all your comments thank you for watching if you haven't done it yet please hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of my weekly beachy goodness