I drove 6 hours for seashells and it was totally worth it! Juno Beach was good to me!

hello Beach friends I love the beach I do so very much but I have to admit some trips are just a little bit more fun than others and today is one of those super fun trips so I have left the comfort of the West Coast and got up at four o'clock in the morning to drive across the state and make it over to Juno Beach so that I could do a little bit of showing over there the tide was just right a little bit low and I have to admit as soon as I got there I said hey I'm gonna like this place they are already encouraging you to clean up the beach so I'm pretty excited I've been up for a while the birds are singing literally the birds are singing and I am really excited to get down and share this experience with you now I did see some things that I expected to see I did see some things that were brand new to me and I saw something that made me go completely out of my mind it was absolutely amazing and fun and I cannot wait to share it with you so if you are ready to see what the East Coast has in store for us today let's go to the beach [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] well first off I'm super happy to be finding seashells because not all East Coast beaches have seashells the last time I went to the east coast well it was challenging I feel like I drove across the state to get a hamburger bean and see a man of war here though all right I see a little bit of that seaweed not those massive patches that they were talking about and phew all right yay there's shells here all right I can make this work we're gonna have ourselves a good time I love these spectral bitter sweets that was something I was hoping to find when I came over here so yes at least I'll at least be picking those up and I could not get over this water it's so flat it's like the West Coast this is what I'm used to just just very calm Waters now I'm here because the low tide is at 9 53 in the morning so right now it's about seven it's almost 7 30 in the morning so I've had quite a morning already I've been up since I don't know four o'clock in the morning so I'm here not tired I am absolutely energized to come see what is at this beach oh hi lady in waiting Venus clam aren't you pretty so that's one of the clams that I will find on the west coast but happy to see you here love the name of that lady in waiting Venus clamp and then they can't does this look like candy to anybody else I mean they just look like candy to me so those are these are called spectral bittersweets and they are super duper common look at this one so this is called a giant Bittersweet so I am on the market for both those spectral bittersweets as well as this giant bittersweet so like I said I'm here for two seconds and I'm finding things so I'm delighted that's a piece of a sand dollar don't think that that is our fivefold Keyhole perhaps it's one of those Arrowhead sand dollars they're a little more Hardy yay another spectral Bittersweet oh look at this a little false Limpet I don't know exactly what kind um there's one in my book but there's only one so I do know that it is a false Limpet but I don't know what kind kind of neat though a little false Olympic okay another yeah I'm gonna end up probably gonna concentrate there these shells are here the spectral bittersweets but I'm probably gonna concentrate on the ones that have just like a lot of cool markings on them okay that's the giant Bittersweet and I know it's just a little one hopefully well I'll get one that's on the giant side that would be cool a Mossy Arc is one of the shells in the Ark family the mossy Arc Neato oh oh that would have been cool if it wasn't broken that's a sundial don't get those on my Coast on the West Coast it's called a sundial I know it's broken I'm keeping it anyway just because I don't ever get to see it so that's part of the things that's kind of exciting for me is just seeing things that I don't normally see I I really don't know my best guess on that scallop is that is a yellow spot scallop there are many many many kinds of scallops that's my best guess I do think it's a little discolored I don't know for sure oh all right my Detective senses are telling me that that is a piece of a lion's paw Lions paws are one of those like bucket list shells yeah just a little piece now that is so tiny I'm not going to keep it if it was a little bit bigger I might consider it well would you look at that that is a red Brown Arc and I'm kind of seeing the resemblance between this and the mossy Arc hmm now this is a leucine and uh there's the Pennsylvania Lucine and then the thick leucine now this one's got the little like bubbles on the interior of the shell so I'm gonna go thick leucine on that one say I'm pretty sure that's what that is so I am here at low tide I cannot get over how calm the water is and you will see it's not like there's piles and piles of seaweed there's a little bit of seaweed but it's not like crazy that's a beautiful common auger because I'm in the water gonna be a little careful there's no hitchhikers no Critters in there oh look at the little kitten paw okay I'll be careful with that I'll hold on to that too see a little alternative kitten paw which is I mean this is crazy this is not this is fabulous fabulous to see a nice calm Waters and a bunch of little seashells super happy next up a thorny oyster fantastic all right it's not quite as thorny kind of like the spiny Jewel box it will have its like little appendages on top of the shell kind of growing all over the place well Lisa got two little horns on it kind of like a so that is a thorny oyster here's another oyster that is a frond oyster kinda neat the first time I found just a piece of it I do love how zigzaggy the edges are they're like wavy that's neat a neat wavy oyster oh a little Arc a little zigzag Arc known as a turkey wing that is a really great example of a turkey wing if I do say so myself hello little turkey wing oh aren't you cute now yeah it's a scallop it's small it's pink and white maybe it's a Calico maybe I don't know don't know I'm out of my element here so I know some things some things I'm hunting for some things I know I'm hoping will be here and then other things will be a little bit of a mystery here is another one of those false limpet and then a little spectral bittersweet for a little bit and one I'm like Oh yay I'm getting to see other things you know that I'm here I'm seeing the the spectral bitter speech the Giant bittersweets and it's just also kind of driving home for me my regular beaches are pretty awesome so Southwest Florida I do have to admit we have some pretty seriously awesome shelling beaches and I know in the summer it's a little bit slower anyway I want to see something different so we came over to the east coast so I could pick up an East Coast broad ribbed cardita versus one on the west coast so that is a broad rib cardida again just look at this experience something different another frond oyster a very wavy frond oyster Neato bird Olive yeah so find myself in the water just checking that out see what's down here I got myself a lettered out and they make them well they're just bigger and thicker over here on the East Coast that is a giant Bittersweet you can kind of see the markings ever so slightly unfortunately yeah probably not going to keep that doesn't have like you know like the rich coloring on it so I do know it's a bittersweet it's bittersweet the color is not better but while I'm over here let's get this Nathan's Hot Dog packaging disgusting get that out of the water yep we'll go ahead and remove garbage over here as well another piece all right that is a piece of a thorny oyster and another one oh in one I think I'll hold on to that second one the first one's a little broken but that one's got a little bit of ridges on it nice color nice orange that written they'll come in orange yellow like a brick red color those three thorny oysters that pretty I like that a little bit of yellow so once again another thorny oyster those are probably quite Exquisite if you could get them before they've been bashed and battered until they're kind of flat well would you look at that a gastropod all right so that is looking like a tinted cancerous to me yep that's what I think that is so we have ourselves a tinted cancerous chemical another spectral Bittersweet oh look just like candy kind of cool it has a line like right down the middle so I'm just you know really kind of entertaining myself with these different patterns on these different shells in addition to kind of just looking for something different so I'm going to Mosey on down the beach and be quiet and let you have some beach time thank you thank you and this was kind of neat it's obvious that it's organic it's very pearlized it was just neat because the base color is kind of like that as you can tell it's kind of like a pink color but then there's a little it just was pretty it was pretty it was on the beach I'm Gonna Keep It oh a Calico clam well hi there Calico clam all right so I'm doing you know I am saying hi to a couple things I normally say hi to oh but a couple of new things like a giant bittersweet it's a nice mixture of things that I was kind of expecting to see and some new things this is a kitten paw too bad you weren't a lion's paw but nope just a little kitten Spa terrific oh and then this this is a crossbarred Venus clam shell it is the most common shell on my usual beaches on Southwest Florida beaches and I just find it interesting to compare that next to the spectral Bittersweet which really kind of seems to be the shell that's all over the place on the East Coast so you got West Coast on the left East Coast on the right just common common shelves hello auger I know technically your name is a common auger but I think you're really pretty beautiful looking common auger all right next up oh another bittersweet and I was looking forward to that I do know that that's something to look forward to coming on over to the east coast so where there was I guess technically there's probably a couple things that I was really kind of hoping I would see and I was thinking about my friend Brian over at Solace and shelling if you don't follow his channel yet why don't you go ahead and head over there and subscribe because he does a lot of fun shelling too so he had posted this picture and I noticed it was Southeast Florida shelves but I lasered in on that Imperial Venus clam right there and so I said to Brian up you were in southeast Florida again weren't you and I even mentioned I have yet to find an imperial Venus clam super jelly so just setting up this next shot I had been thinking about that particular shell just the day before so can you imagine my delight when I saw it I literally finally oh my gosh and now for the first time I'm gonna get to touch one oh my God to die my friends I've never found one that is an imperial Venus clam I had been dying to find one that is the cool oh my gosh I'm freaking out right now freaking out that is so cool it's got all its little lines in it it looks puffy and I kind of bring it down to the water and wash it off and Marvel at it and oh it's so neat look at all the little ridges on it oh yep so for me this was a big deal this was I was kind of thinking about the show I saw it I got to touch it so this is my first Imperial Venus clam encounter man that was cool so now I'm pumped now I'm like you know what Bring it on I don't care I found it in very old Imperial Venus clam that is a chestnut turban beautifully beaded shell but honestly I'm still thinking about the Imperial Venus claim I am but I'm highly collecting these giant bittersweets those are both giant Bittersweet clams oh and another so that's another sundial no it's not great not you know it's a little broken a little discolored but still I never ever ever get to pick them up so still kind of neat probably gonna hold on to that since I have most of the shell I'll probably hold on to it all right let's look at all right a little bit bigger a little bit bigger than those like dime sized shelves but a giant Bittersweet isn't that pretty beautiful beautiful shell and look at that and yep I saw that one too look at that so these are also Chestnut turbines it seems very random to me right all just all right fantastic beautiful Chestnut turbines and what is this oh I think that's a corrugate Jewel box think there's actually a lot of different jewel boxes I'm thinking it's a jewel box maybe I don't know what kind I'm keeping it anyway just kind of neat and this was definitely neat it's like multi-part so we do have a frond oyster that's kind of the base and then we have this worm shell or warm snail is kind of attached itself to the front oyster I just thought that was kind of cool so nature did a little construction some shell construction I thought that was neat so then hold on to that now the front oysters are typically kind of hold on to soft corals and sea fans and things like that let me yay there's so many shells all right I can make this work what do we see so it's mostly the spectral bittersweets but I do find like once I kind of get down and take a peek that's what I'm kind of seeing the other stuff kind of pop out to me I see it no yes another one so I wonder if it was about this time I was like oh my gosh I don't know really what they look like from the bottom what if I've been passing them and I oh how many I must have passed well what are you gonna do I'm just tickled pink yeah I'm checking all right is there any other ones here before I go down to the water and oogle over my second Imperial Venus Club all right I marked my spot get back down there oh look at this one no this one doesn't appear to have quite as many fridges as that first one but again for me now in some areas I know that these are super common not a big deal to me it was a very big deal I had just been been thinking about this particular shell and then I kind of come to the beach and find it so yeah I'm tickled I am tickled another giant Bittersweet I will likely pick up every single one that's sort of decent got a little bit of color good good shape I'm probably gonna pick it up giant Bittersweet oh I know who you are you're just a piece of a Fighting Conch yeah just a piece of a Florida Fighting Conch no way and it's it's whole holy cow so that my friends is a lion's paw now it's definitely not in mint condition as we can tell but for me I really like that it's whole I know it's a little discolored but it's whole it's the whole show so I'm pretty thrilled with that so that is a lion's paw like bucket list shell number two oh in the background I did see that little giant bittersweet I'll pick that up as well so yeah down to the water wash it off see if there's any of that color is really going to come out and I will tell you I did spend a little time really trying to clean it up nope that's pretty much I was able to get some of that white things off of it but that's the way that that shell ended up I know kittens paw not as exciting sorry it's just not as exciting as the Lions paw so that is a kitten Spa and this I was kind of yeah look at that almost looks like looks like it shouldn't be there right but that is a leafy Jewel box it's a little broken in the pretty though the color I can't get over that so that's a little leafy Jewel box so it has been a beautiful morning I'm having myself a fantastic time I thought I was just gonna have to you know wander around picking up bittersweets but no I got myself some bucket list shells so now thank you thank you Juno Beach what else are we going to discover here oh a piece of sea glass awesome not old glass that we find down here is going to be you know sea glass sometimes it's just a garbage but that is a lovely piece of sea glass and that is another red Brown Arc and like I said I picked up that Mossy Arc and I yeah you know you really do kind of remind me of your friends in the arc family so here we do have the family called family it's arcade and we have you see here your turkey wing over here your red Brown Arc over here and your Mossy Arc so technically yes they really are in the same family of shells the arcs Bittersweet a giant bittersweet and I don't know you know I found maybe two three of those on my on the west coast but just don't get them that often and that's what just makes your brain happy different things sea glass I don't you know I encounter glass once in a while but just different things I'm loving it oh hey what are you doing so I found a ghost crab it's kind of hanging out now ghost crabs are nocturnal typically they kind of do their business at night all so that is a little Ghost crab and they do need to go back and forth to the water to wet their gills get a better look at you your hairy legs all right that's it Critter is just gonna kind of stare at us and kind of wander off so we've seen a couple recently they will they have little um holes in the sand that's where these little ghost crabs will live still keep an eye on me not to worry buddy I'm Gonna Leave You Alone so nothing Ghost crab just Blends right in all right excellent got to see a critter too now I also ran into a woman that said and I didn't know that you can find shark teeth here so I abruptly found some black stuff really just to kind of remind myself I cannot look for shark teeth and shells I just I can't do it just my brain just kind of needs one or the other so it was kind of neat to know that it was here so the next time I come because I will be coming back I'll look for shells and the shark teeth and with any luck the next time I come we will also have these delightful giant Bittersweet clams lovely I want to Jingle yep little baby's foot or jingle shell Neato what was that oh in the coral now this is also thin fingered Coral that I do recognize the coral that I get on my beaches not just a nice little piece of coral Neato and more glass we got no that's sea glass not the garbage glass terrific I'm having so much fun now I have been looking for you shiny auger so there's a couple of different augers Sally's auger is one of them and then this the shiny auger I literally have been looking for it never found one so this is the first time I'm finding one you see the common auger on the left and those are more like a cone where the shiny auger on the right is more like a bullet like it kind of tapers at the bottom again so that's a new shell for me Juno Beach you are being so nice oh no way yeah my heart's racing I'm like no no number three oh it's so pretty I love they look puffy right they cut they're not but they look puffy the Imperial Venus clam you know those just by the design they have a much better shot of not getting drilled into because they're so thick and because they have such a lumpy shell like that Imperial Venus clam man that clam is making me happy not that you aren't thorny oyster you are lovely as well but I kind of just really was had a hankering for one of those Imperial Venus clams well big Chestnut turban big big big turban wow so yep got ourselves a chestnut turban awesome oh more garbage terrific we'll put that with a Nathan's Hot Dog container get that off the beach all right what else do you know I'm gonna walk back up to the pier what else between here and there are we going to discover what is it going to be oh oh out there is like a c um like a c School see those floats out on the right they were kids it was like a you know like a day camp of sorts it looked like a lot of fun I it it looked like a lot of fun oh no way oh Imperial Venus clam oh oh that would have been terrible oh what if you had been sucked back out to see oh that would have been so awful luckily you and I are together put you with your other friends oh look at how many wonderful little lumps you have on you with those straight lines and oh you're so awesome yep another Imperial Venus Clan thrilled I'm humming I'm so happy and I got a broken one and I kept that one too and I also kind of just thinking the way that the shell was building you can see that it builds on top and it just kind of grows and gets bigger in the layers yep thank you thank you Juno you're awesome and another letter to Olive which is also awesome I'm just not going to go quite as crazy because I've seen those before a lovely lettered Olive oh Juno you shouldn't have well okay fine thank you oh and really at this point I'm like oh man how many other ones did I miss oh who cares oh it's so puffy and awesome and yeah it's so fun finding brand new shells it really is but that's not to say like fan favorites or kind of like my my hometown shells the auger you are fun to find as well the brown Pelicans they have a calm day today normally I imagine that they're battling waves but it was just a very unusual day very very calm I did come on purpose When the tide was coming out so that was on purpose so I picked a great day to come are you kidding me no way another okay fine yeah yeah I it was so fun another Imperial Venus Clan yeah really really fun and just especially because I kind of had them on the brain like I was just thinking about them the day before so lots of different things I think about when I'm wandering around the beach believe me and one of them is how very grateful I am that I have people that come with me virtually walking on the beach and then also monetarily support me thank you thank you so much for helping me you know pay to drive across the state and do things like this it was super duper fun and it's really just nice to see something very different it was much calmer than I thought it was going to be but I will definitely definitely be back so the one last kind of look over my shoulder at the beach man that was fun but like I said I will definitely be back I think next time I'm going to try wintertime so I did remove a little bit of garbage from the beach 3.45 ounces so in total I've removed a little over 36 pounds of garbage from the beaches I figure every little bit counts in holy cow here's everything else and I had so much fun the spectral bittersweets I was happy to even see those frankly I could have just picked those up the whole time that would have been fine but I got lucky and also got some of those sundials did see a Calico clamp some of those thorny oysters which was cool the lady I'm waiting Venus clams looks like I've got a couple scallops the frond oysters looks like one jingle that's a questionable Jewel box the red Brown arcs the mossy arcs the giant bittersweets there was one a slipper in there some Broadway carditas kitten Paws I said giant bittersweets I think the turkey wing the olives that piece of questionable prettiness the lion paw the piece of coral the uh false limpets but the Imperial Venus clams stole the show for me I was literally thinking about them the whole way home I couldn't wait to come home and wash them off and touch them again and now they're in my special box holy cow that was fun all right next week I don't we're going to Sanibel and I'm just gonna say I'm gonna let my sense of humor lead the way next week so we'll leave it at that I hope you have yourself a great week and I'll see you again next Sunday