Just as good as Sanibel! Beach combing on South Fort Myers Beach. Sand dollars, shells and critters.

hi thank you so much for watching it's another video from swf beach life today I'll be taking you to South Fort Myers Beach where you can find critters and shells that she'll pile I'm recycling I brought that to the beach because I just had too many I want to share the wealth that's an angel wing we had never found an angel wing so that was pretty cool that we found that right away this I think is a disk dust simia please correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's what that guy is and that looks like some shell cake casings from lightening well could be another kind of snail but that's what I think those are we saw tons of these guys today since that's a live sand dollar super pretty just pick him up and check him out definitely alive you can tell by all those little hairs on the back of him so that you do not bring home he goes back in the water I mean here we have a Florida conch I know I had just brought a giant pile but look how pretty he's all buttery and orange and I had to take him so here we have a sand dollar that is not alive he's smooth there's no hairs on them I know he's really dark but that he's okay to take home and here we have a short spined sea urchin they are actually harmless I definitely wouldn't want to step on one I mean they they got some little spike to them that's his mouth underneath there but they're harmless and pretty when you clean them all up let him do his urgent thing here we found a nice lightning whelk and again we're on South Fort Myers Beach so there is definitely some goodies there that is a cockle I don't normally pick them up they're ubiquitous they're everywhere but I just wanted to show you that's what that looks like and here we have a black scallop sort of unusual I don't always find black ones so I definitely wanted to decided to take him home and another annual way yeah we had a pretty good day for angel wings so far we found two and here that looks like it was a pair Welk little beat up but wanted to show you him yeah looks like we got another little juvenile conk I like them a lot another lightning well some stuff on it that's all right and another it was a really good day for beachcombing in general there was all sorts of seaweed and stuff there's a little shell tons of urgence tons of live sand dollars and I'll show you that this I believe is called sea pork to me it looks like Beach brains so I'm probably just gonna rename it Beach brains but I believe those are living organisms it's a whole colony of organisms and there was orange and purple and all sorts of those little brain blobs they were kind of weird they're kind of hard but it's an organism that's that's alive they filter out water and get their nutrients that way correct me if I'm wrong because I had a little bit of a hard time identifying that those are some Florida fighting conch which you definitely can find on South Fort Myers Beach definitely another sand sand dollar after a while I decided I really wanted to find like a really really big one cuz they were everywhere he's I would say that guys like average size and when we had come down in July there were tons of one I mean they were everywhere and plenty for you to bring home they were not all alive definitely I don't know if that was their mating season no idea make sure he makes it so that's what the beach look like there was a seaweed and just stuff and shells and it just it was interesting I like just kind of combing seeing what we can find there's another Welk and another sand dollar he's alive he's gonna go back here's another live sand dollar and another they were telling ya they were everywhere it was really really cool there they one two three four five six right there that looks like a whelk Marcion dollars not cool I definitely found more live ones than dead ones which was fine it was a walk but I'll leave that for somebody else another live sand dollar check this guy out I believe that's a spider crack I'm just hanging out he blended in really well with all the other stuff that was on the beach and so he was just doing his spider crab thing neat I love that beat it's alive like South Fort Myers Beach is definitely alive there's a little chunk and that is a live cockle I had showed you just the piece of it in the beginning of the video and that's what it looks like if it's alive so it's a bivalve it's got two pieces on there putting him back in the water and that guy was upside down I couldn't really see he was a little upside down so tough an urchin out that would have been a tulip well it actually it is a tulip but take him here that looks like a pair will conk it was a good day for stuff what's the stuff not another Florida fighting hmm did another lightning walk and an angel wing so weird never found them before and all of a sudden we had three that looks like it might have been an apple me racks pretty beat-up and that looks like a shirt guy also known as a little snail another live sand dollar he's not that you know again I was looking for something pretty big but yeah Everage size it's a wee little shell and another angel wing yep see you go the first snack I'm sure it's another Florida fighting some stuff on it I'll wash it off there we go much better pretty and awoke another lightning walk really good day for lightning welcome good here I wasn't sure I can't quite tell I mean it's old it's it's kind of worn down I'm not really sure I guess that's a juvenile fighting I think another live sand dollar tons of live urgent you just got to be careful when you walk you do you definitely they're harmless but you don't want to step on those guys and that is alive sunray Venus pretty cool so it looks like when it's alive and it's got both it's both the tabs you know their little comp don't keep him and another sunray Venus to live leave me in the water let's see how big this guy is I was like to be careful these guys probably like all that happy I'm picking him up but if I'm gonna I just want to be gentle he wasn't that big let's see this guy he looks kind of big I was not kidding when I said you'll definitely find Lord a fighting this guy's neat see that whole another critter got to it another critter drilled a hole in that and that was the demise of that guy there's some more urgent see we turn him over I mean the tide was coming in but still help an urchin out right that is a calico crab shell just a shell but they are really neat couldn't quite tell what that was and another pair Welk or is that a lightning look no I think it's a lightning look hard to tell and that looks like it was or is an Apple me Rex it's hard with these guys when they get worn down but I still think that that's probably I think it's either a lace or an apple let me know what you think I can't quite tell there's no little no lightning well that one's obvious Pere Welk which I usually don't find a lot of so it's kind of neat to find those and then my husband gave me these in turbine which I've never found at South Fort Myers Beach so that's kind of cool in Sanibel yes Southport Myers no that is a calico clam both pieces of it again another by valve neat that I think is a lace me Rex it's very worn down but the opening is just a little bit different than the Apple so then I think is it oh look at that reflexes like a cat that is another pair welcome little cog maybe got here okay that guy's pretty ooh he's got something on him I didn't keep him cuz yes it had this I don't know thing on it it was some sort of thing don't know what that is so if anybody knows what that is please let me know yeah here's another would check this guy out he's alive it's another calico clam but he's alive so put him back in the water oh that's a 9-iron nine armed sea star who has seen better days another angel wing cool Apple Muir ax it's in pretty good shape pretty colors look at this wee little guy baby sand dollar and unfortunately with everything else that washed up we found some garbage so as we were beachcombing we made sure to grab the garbage and we're gonna take them throw it away beautiful color on that lightning walk and another and another it was funny because we already walked to this beach we were walking now back to the car we're walking north at this point and I just kept picking up those lightning walk I just kept washing up beautiful color make sure there's no critters he's good and another I've never seen a live look here look tulip banded Tula that was super exciting god I don't normally get in South Fort Myers Beach and an olive I was saying that I've never seen a live lightning walk on South Fort Myers Beach just the shells just like it's Annabelle got a little conch now this is a hagit stone hag stones are stones that have holes that have been created by water like a natural created hole and you'll find those also all over Fort Myers Beach it's they're just neat so this is where we were this is where I took you South Fort Myers Beach in that area santini Plaza is just inland there just as a reference point and that's lovers key I've taken you guys there and then that is Sanibel just to give you an idea where everything is and then that is bunch so they're all kind of you know they're close together super fun to explore they all kind of offer something a little bit different and you never really know because it all depends on the time to the winds so this was the hall for the day we did pretty good got some bunch of whelk to those angel wings the sand dollars that black scallop they're a couple of those for it a fighting so it was fun thank you very much for joining me on my South Fort Myers Beach excursion make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any BG goodness