Shelling at low tide on Fort Myers Beach. Sand dollars, lightning whelk and a surprise banded tulip!

greetings beach lovers we're gonna go on beach walk today and look for some critters and shells and see what other things we can find on the beach it's a lovely day and let's go for a walk welcome to swf beach life if you are new here please go ahead and hit that subscribe and the notification bell so you will know when I drop a new video so today I'm gonna take you to Fort Myers Beach this South End because that's where we tend to find the most stuff the tide was pretty far out when we were there and we gonna start off with this fine Florida fighting that's a fine specimen they're all over the place and there we have a calico scallop don't look at here right in the surf where there's a lightening welcome looks like it's gonna be a pretty good day here we have what I believe is a lace me racks it's pretty deteriorated hard to absolutely identify but that's what I think that is long and you know there's some shells but no real shell piles here we have an olive he's not perfect the top is broken off but that's alright got a coral Frank you can really see how early in the morning is based on the lighting so we're out there it's probably no no 8:00 in the morning here we have a piece of a tulip and a kitten pot and here is a Florida prickly cockle you can see where they're where they got their name they definitely are prickly little guys these are I really these are cool these are spiny jewel boxes and they're just me I like when they're super spiking I think that that's kind of cool this guy was kind of uh I don't know just calling to me it's just a southern surf clan but it just I don't know look like a mellow cool show so I picked that up here's another one of those spiny jewel boxes and look at that looks like a triceratops I just think it's gonna neat and this is a hag stone and I'm fascinated by these things and I I just can't believe how perfect that circle is that's just done by the goal water that's all it is but just kind of cool there's a giant looks like a gray jingle and this guy that's just a crossbar Venus fancy name but no know what's going on with that yellow on the inside so I figured I'd take a closer look at him that I believe is what's left of a florida fighting conch and I find them very interesting like the skeletons of the shells it's kind of cool that is another spiny jewel box but it is quite large not quite a spiky but he's pretty big so I figured we'd take a closer look at that guy this is just a piece of a juvenile Florida fighting conch but I liked that a shell pattern here's another scallop I'm not sure if that's discolored what's going on there but I thought it was pretty now this is another pen shell it's not very remarkable on the outside but on the inside it's got this beautiful iridescent color I find that very interesting considering frankly it's not it's kind of an ugly shell if you ask me but super pretty on the inside and here's a shell tree overlooking the gorgeous Gulf water yeah it was a nice day there's no scallop it's got a lot of orange in it something different I'm here we have another lightning well he's a little bit beat up but it's looking like it might be a slow shell day so we're uh we're gonna go ahead and inspect just about everything here's another Florida fighting con he can always rely on those guys to be around and an olive I picked him out of the surf there he was in really good shape he had his top pretty good sized shiny so that was cool so we're out for all intent and purposes by ourselves I mean it was very slow on the so slow um south end of the beach so it's kind of nice to be out there there's nobody around it's not even from social distancing just a slow day I picked this right out of the water since there wasn't really so much going on up on the beach I was walking through the water and found this guy fabulous and this I thought was kind of cool looks like another pen shell but look it's like got that you're a decent on both sides of it so I thought that was kind of neat it's not so ugly on the topside now this looks like a turkey wing but it's not it's a Massey Ark they're like cousins they're very similar so my figure to take a look at that that you guessed it that is a Florida fighting what do we got here all right you have a piece of a shark eye hormone snail it's a piece I'm gonna keep that make something of it look at this little guy well purple but it's the Sun Raveena's it's little it's got like a purple hue to him kind of cool a little baby pink scallop I like the tie knees they're fun and look at this my husband found these these are sand dollars they are dead they are absolutely perfect to take home they're in great shape what bleach those and just something cool here we have it looks like a juvenile it's hard when the colors are gone harder to identify but that's definitely on the left there that's a lightning walk and I believe that's a fighting conch Wow what could another stand dollar but that will conclude the sand dollars for the day I was expecting more that's all we got but it is the season they'll be back here's another sunray Venus two different kind of colors going on oh look at this angel wing so I walked over the water hoping to wash off that brown stuff but didn't really come off so I'll have to bleach it see what happens that my friends is sea pork I also call it Beach brains it is an organism that filters water so we'll just put them back in the water I am obsessed about putting living things in the water here we have a like a scallop and what is this I had to reach out to some other people to help me identify that pink guy so we have the scallop there I tell her that's a calico scallop this other guy is an Atlantic Samael so I thought he was kind of pretty kind of like a speckled pink color on the top there something different of course I'm probably gonna go for that flirt a fighting of course hardy little guy and here we have yet another prickly chuckle those I like to use when I clean the urchins on the beach so can use those as a tool I like those buttery color but he's got a hole oh well super pretty no the Florida finding Oh super red on the inside really nice he's got his little points he's cool all right this is a lightning walk and casing looks like it's quite old there's probably little babies running all over the place but that is what that looks like here is another juvenile Florida fighting I want to swipe that sand off and here we have most of a moon snail or a shark eye here we have another kind like a grey scallop which is kind of definitely cool and black I've been finding them a lot lately usually I mean there's yet another one usually I find those purple ones but been getting those black ones now here we have some barnacles which really seem to like this nutmeg shell so that's nutmeg with a bunch of particles on it and here we have another moons now I thought this just got a lot going on here we have I think it looks like some sort of oyster there's a here to a moon snail so I thought that was kind of cool here we have another juvenile Florida fighting conch with some on it that is not going to rub off but here we have a pretty good decent specimen as well as a piece of a banded tulip so that would have been cool again it's a little bit of a slow showing day I'm going to keep it this again I think could be either could be a lace or an apple me Rex can't tell but I still like the whirly shells all right guys you see it you see the show I'm gonna go after if you were thinking angel wing you were right unfortunately it had a bunch of barnacles on it so I'm not gonna keep it but uh I figured we just pick that up and take a little bit closer look and here we have a Josie Nia and an auger I don't know what kind of dough see Nia it does not have those lines it's just dirty now check this out pretty unremarkable right just a little little piece so I went in for a closer look and look I thought it was just gonna be a piece but it was the whole thing that is a banded tulip I was psyched it's this gonna check that out no nothing much nothing much we're gonna wash this off look I can keep it it's not not alive no critters lovely banded tulip so I was pretty happy with that and yet another dark scallop and sunray Venus those are clams those are kind of kind of neat I'm a little more interested in them now look at this that would have been a huge sand dollar but it's only a piece they're coming though now check this I piss out he's snacking away and I'm gonna show you in a minute when he's snacking on these guys cockiness there are these little baby clams you can see them moving around there they are great because they eat algae and bacteria and stuff that washes up to the shore they were actually really really important to the ecology down here so all sorts of fish and birds eat them so me and they're filtering cleaning things up so it's always good to have something cleaning up the beach but they were cutting look at them they're kind of cool I've seen those up in New Jersey too probably all over the place but they were quite active on this particular day okay normally I drowned out the sound so I just wanted you to hear a little bit of that wonderful beach I hate when the wind is kind of like in the background so you normally push it down now we're walking back north and that's the Windham you see people kind of see those patches of what it looks like crowds but you know what once you get closer it's not a crowd people are absolutely distancing keeping that six feet or more away from each other so it is so nice to see that and fingers crossed that we can keep the beaches open so that I can continue to do this on the weekend and our way out we found up a pretty beat up lightning well but it's all right again on the slow day start inspecting all sorts of things and here we have a turkey wing we lean guy I'll take him home and look at this I love orange and this bright orange jingle caught my eye so I snagged him too that's it that concludes my little uh my souvenirs from my walk today we have a bunch of some scallops and that tulip which I was really happy about it got some lightening well that moon snail some headstones blue the three different colors Sun rate Venus kind of cool and my coral frags broken pieces and Florida fighting conch I'll take it so guys thank you as always for watching and tuning in I'll be back next week with another Beach walk so if you haven't subscribed please do that now and I'll see you next week