Florida seashell tour of the 10,000 islands. Beachcombing an island looking for beach treasures!

if you like beaches and Beach Treasures well you are in luck because that is exactly the type of videos that I make now I normally travel to a new beach every week sharing awesome Critters and seashells that can be found but last week I was Finding so many amazing things that I had to break that island adventure into two parts and today we're going to be continuing our time on kais Island now I did give you some sneak previews last week and I do find a bucket list shell and I'm gonna hold off on telling you about that because I like surprises so if you're ready to see what's out there for us today let's go to the beach [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] okay so I'm gonna set the stage I got up super early so I can drive down to Goodland where the marina is and got on a boat over to kais Island so at this point I have been here for a little while and so that doesn't mean that my excitement has diminished at all if anything I think I'm more energized so here we have a lovely top snail terrific and if I do remember correctly we were finding a lot of these colorful moon snails last week as well okay this that is a hinged Calico clam and what's interesting is the hinge so it was a little bit those two pieces are kind of off-centered and that hinge is dried at this point so the hinges on those shells will crack once they actually kind of get dried out oh hi lace lyrics with a whole bunch of beach stuff on it and that is okay we can take care of that beach stuff that'll clean up no problem see another Gordy so that is another one of those colorful moon snails and this one's kind of neat because the cut like the pattern got really weak kind of at the end there knee neat colorful moons now oh and the lace mirax and the Calico clam lovely oh lightning Welk and look it got lazy at the end there was like yeah I'm not gonna bother with the color beautiful lightning bulk awesome size really cool another lace mirix they have such a fantastic texture to them those little wings that kind of come off of it so that is a lace mirror it's just beautiful now this guy I know is alive because I could see it's been moving around it's not kind of where it settled so I do know that this is alive and it is a Florida Fighting Conch you can see it's little eyeballs and it's little proboscis oh it's so cute and it's not really doing much I'm not gonna harass it like okay you know sometimes they kind of come out sometimes not so much this one's I feel a little shy so we'll just do a quick say quick hi I'll leave that Critter alone and keep boozing along see what else we come upon hey lettered Olive oh that's kind of neat and I keep kind of messing around with it the pattern is kind of different all right I'm going to want to wash that off for sure and that's looking a little different we'll come back to that in a second ah what else we got okay we got a lightning walk oh yeah yeah we learned last week not to worry about that beach stuff right chips and stuff well you can almost kind of fix those too but the beach stuff do not worry about it okay that Olive is neat so it's got some vertical striping going on it's got the traditional kind of horizontal stripe Neato oh if you know me at all you know I'm going bananas over this fantastic Orange Florida so pretty and that is an angel wing which is also quite pretty didn't wash up all that much guys it's kind of a lot of muck here it's there's a lot of dirt and Gunk and whatnot toward the front of the island so it makes it a little bit more fun more like an adventure okay your ponderous Arc I do have a little jar I'm filling with these with the black perioastricum on them however I'm noticing that once the the shells really kind of dry off that black stuff kind of flakes off so let's we'll see what happens and this shell is so pretty a beautiful gaudy Nautica oh the color is nice and Rich it's going to be like that anyway because of the it was in the water beautiful colorful moons now lightning welcome I wasn't sure how big that was until I picked it up Neato nice size once again lovely lightning welcome not gonna care about that beach stuff this was really neat because I'm like okay what what in the heck is this all right well let's get in Focus first yeah brand new to me never seen this before pitted murix they only get to be about an inch big I had heard of them I was not expecting to run into one so I did a little like I wonder what that is and then when I got home I got kind of excited about it so much so I had to go back outside and shoot it again just because I wanted to make sure you guys could really kind of see it the tail gives it away that little tail absolutely looks like a mirix so that is a pitted murix pretty cool it's like I'm gonna put that in my little special box of goodies oh I do love a good hinged spiny Jewel box unfortunately this one isn't quite as gloriously spiky as they can get but still a nice find hinged spiny Jewel box not sure what am I going after oh so pretty Calico scallop with that fabulous pattern that is a horse conch yep empty delightful I see a mirix yup and Lace mirax nice and Lacy oh man so do you want to me kais this is fantastic fantastic shelling what do we got here all right that is a false angel wing some of them I see all sorts of stuff what do you guys see I see obviously a bubble see Buttercup loose scene this is a that's a Calico scallop Yep they're the Buttercup Lucy all right not so not super buttery but still pretty awesome I really do like those shells yeah no lack of of beach Treasures here oh and exactly why I literally had to make two videos out of this one trip so many wonderful things but not only are the shells amazing the view is gorgeous so I'm gonna be quiet for a minute they'll let you enjoy some beach time oh my favorite okay here is a Florida Fighting Conch you'll see it stromboy Notch right there that's for its eye to kind of come out of and the Florida Fighting Conch is a gastropod and castropod means stomach foot and let's kind of think about that gastro kind of means things that go on in your stomach pod meaning foot or ped like a pedestrian so gastropod means stomach foot and just a second we're going to see that it's really appropriate for this particular type of shell so this is a Florida Fighting Conch desperately trying to get me off its shell so that's what it's doing likely that's where this animal gets its name because it will come out and kind of whip around like that but no one's really going to say for sure we just don't really know so check this out I'm going to put them down him or her and the way that they actually move is it's kind of I call it slumping it's not a real term but they kind of just push themselves along in these like leaping movements so it's not a smooth kind of movement like a tulip they kind of lurch and that's their foot part right so that is called their foot anyway and that is literally the way that they move so we learned a little bit about why they're called gastro pods by friend I hope you have a great day love those little guys all love these two so colorful so beautiful we have Florida cone on the left and two really gorgeous Calico scallops those purple ones gorgeous The Tide is coming in but again when you come to Christ it doesn't really matter all right we got ourselves an alternate Talent I'm kind of walking around in this Mucky area I call it the Cone Zone and it's kind of a mess it is not inviting and it's pretty much all shells anyway it's all like a ponderous arcs and stuff you wouldn't necessarily collect every now and then you know you'll see something kind of buried in here like an alphabet cone so this is a decent area to look around you got to be careful when the water is higher you could lose a shoe like it gets a little soggy and Mucky down here oh what do we got all right looks like this time is a rather crusty colorful moon snail but you never know it's so fun finding out the next treasure is gonna be all right that is a moon snail as well call that a shark eye yep beautiful looking shark guy all sorts oh hi there that's a Fighting Conch that is also a Fighting Conch the juveniles yep the shells are still coming that is a Calico clam even the clams are pretty right I do like those and a jingle also known as a baby's foot you know what though that foot this looks like a foot I don't know why they call it a baby's foot looks like just a foot should I change it no we'll leave it jingle or baby's foot another Florida Fighting Oh yay we got I think maybe an alternate talent in there that is so pretty look at the natural shine oh that's a gorgeous fighting awesome and a little Thomas nutmeg although they're not I mean they're not uncommon per se but they're not all that easy to find I never find multiples I'll find one maybe two but it's kind of rare that I'd find like a whole bunch of nutmegs oh hi spiny Jewel box doing okay with the spiny two boxes today oh nice little horn on it like a unicorn shell awesome spiny Jewel box oh you are so pretty especially with a little bit of brown yep yeah it'd be terrible to leave that behind gorgeous Fighting Conch well hi there pear Welk you too nice color on that those are a little bit harder to find with good collar on them that is a lovely pear Welk nice yellow prickly cockle the yellow the better and you know they don't get all that prickly they're just they're going to have a little bit of pricklies on the opposite side and that's just about it I'm in The Cone Zone so that means I found a cone hi beautiful oh well I wish we had met sooner but you're still quite pretty definitely pretty nice size the aperture is definitely beat up a little bit still gonna hold on to it it is an alphabet cone after all and this I just wanted to give you a visual I'm not shooting a whole video like this but just to kind of give you an establishing shot of what I'm experiencing when I'm here so you know you got the island and the water and oh it's just it's so fun and then you're picking up things like this Calico scallop so this is really a wonderful way to spend a couple of hours I'm glad I can bring you guys along with me so that is a Florida cone nice looking Florida cone I might say nice and pointy got great color and then this was hiding this spiny Jewel box and see what I mean I think the hinge is kind of dry so this is kind of dry to open like that and it will snap if I you know if I give it enough it that that hinge will snap gotta be careful the other shark eye terrific it seems like today I'm definitely finding more of those colorful wounds Nails on the MD wow the regular shark guys oh man I'm still keeping it I don't care beautiful lightning welcome yep gorgeous okay now here I'm like oh I see it and it is a bucket list show for me and I'm all excited I'm like oh man and now I'm thinking like oh please be whole I mean I know what I see it's kind of far away and it's under a couple other shells don't worry we're gonna get there it's a rose lyrics oh and it's got its tail and it's little white piece oh so that for me is a bucket Lush bucket list shell I have found a few but always really exciting to find these Rosemary shells awesome love love love those all right we're just looking to see what's here I wonder what you guys see a gorgeous Apple mirrix and banded Tula now someone recently said I know it can be confusing the banded tulips and the true tulips both have bands but the banded tulips it's they're different um hopefully I'll pick up another one we'll talk about that a lightning Welk no no others hopefully oh there's another spiny Jewel box oh they're so cool I did get to see one alive once and they just look all Gummy just like a pink gummy creature really cool and then you know what I can tell you about the Tulips the banded tulips and the true tulips if you found a tulip it's probably a banded tulip because the true ones are so hard to find oh beautiful little Merricks nothing they're hard to find they just don't they're just not as ample as the banded pillows now that is something I typically find in ample Supply the Apple mirax oh hi gorgeous little baby alphabet cone oh it's so cute and so pretty oh of course I'm thinking why can't you be a genonia but you're a beautiful alphabet comb gorgeous oh and I just saw this little bit of bright orange had to inspect and it's just a little horse con what else anything else I need to remove from this pile uh we're Apple We're Not Gonna worry about that lace mirix sucks that's okay we'll go ahead and hold on to that oh now this parallel at some point had its shell broken and it repaired it and I bet had it lived long enough you know it could have kept a building on that shell wow that parallel led a hard life okay I don't know if you I can still see it is white white white this is an albino lace mirix there is not a speck of color on it and it is just a different kind of white than some of the other white shells that you see and it's a little cloudy right now let me shoot it there we go look at it's just bright white zero color absolutely gorgeous gorgeous lace mirrors oh there's so many fighting cons and then I tell myself okay you know try to look past them I get distracted what else is here so I'm literally trying not to not pay attention to the Fighting Conch so I picked up this lightning well anything else catch my eye all right a juvenile fight all right we'll pick up these can't help it so those are juvenile fighting conchs okay there's a bandage tool I'm gonna pick it up there we go so yeah and not a good example oh well that's a drill of some sort is a juvenile fighting Kong there's a yep another juvenile fighting comic oh look at that I do see that Apple mirax it's a very very washed out though probably leave that behind that I probably won't be able to fix the color there's another banded pillow like I mean I am if you found a tulip it's probably a banded tulip if the bands in it are really really close together it's a true tulip there's another top snail that was that first snail we were first shell we picked up today there's a loft mouth to row what else you know pieces oh oh little pear well whoopsie so fun so many shells another now because it's Juvenile look at that beautiful purple on the inside sometimes the adults have that too oh I see are fighting conks I'm gonna fight it and see what else is here what else can I see you know what I find this beautiful alphabet cone and right away I'm like wait a minute I don't think that's empty I'm like all right I do think I see something something now believe me what I can see and what the camera can see at this point are very very different believe it or not it is so bright on the beach sometimes I just I can't see but these uh alphabet cones are technically predatory and venomous however they it's more of like a bee sting so I'm in Florida United States we don't have those crazy shells that will kill you if you get stabbed by it so you can see it's a little curriculum kind of popping out now believe me I don't want to get stung so I'm not gonna you know be careless about it but I'm so excited that it's alive now some of the things I'm noticing are that the shell is not very white it kind of see how that's white and see how that has a cream color to it and I think that's because it's alive and when you find them with that cream color they were either recently dead this one is still alive so really exciting for me I can't check it out so much it's a bummer you know I'd love to hold it and kind of mess around with it but I'd also like to be responsible and by all means not to get stung by this thing so I do see that it's alive it's a little old perculum there and it probably eventually it would have come out but again ah I don't want to handle it too much so we've got to see it it's alive and I'm gonna put it right back where I found it by all these Fighting conchs by that little that little stick there so that was really kind of cool I've never seen a live one so that was cool to finally see one of those and I might as well not fight my Fighting Conch addiction and go ahead and start checking some of those out now this shot this shot is for me so when people tell me to leave the shelves that I take too many shells I'm just going to send them this and say believe me there are plenty of seashells down here in Southwest Florida plenty I am not taking anyone's home I am not damaging the environment there are plenty of seashells here so thank you I just wanted to have this little shot in one of my videos so the next time someone says that I can send him this clip there we go there's another banded tulip and like I can see what I say about Amanda Phillips I just keep picking up the banded tulips and they have those very deliberate bands only about a quarter inch or so apart and another Spidey toolbox love the texture of those shells awesome and about this point man I can't stay for here forever I didn't bring my tent and enough water and all that stuff so I'm gonna turn around and head back but that's not to say the word we're not done yet believe me plenty of cool stuff to check out still see a little piece of a miraxia very very slippery Apple mirrix oh it's beautiful great size great color awesome and then I wanted to say goodbye to my friend hey it was still there hanging out by all those fighting so I walked up the beach walked back said hi to my friend because I really did think that was super exciting and then just kind of kept it moving at that point there's a banded tool up gorgeous and so you'll notice all the shells that kind of come out of the water the colors would be nice and vibrant that's because you're not seeing that cloudy surface that can appear on the dry shelves I see a nutmeg and I'm gonna have to kind of like contort my body area kind of contort to get in there was it worth it oh heck yes look at the color on that all right so I know there's some beach stuff on that common nutmeg but the colors spectacular so yeah I'm gonna pick a little bit of that off I'll bring it home pick more of it off because then again think about it I think I've only found what two today of those nut bags shark eye awesome that's a very handsome looking shark eye very very nice and the scallops the scallops were awesome I mean they're typically great and then there's just some days where they are really really good so there happen to be quite a few of those really really good scallops we'll just kind of put them all together and oogle at them no way nutmeg number three so that's pretty good nutmeg day and I'm just grinding some of that soft like wood stuff into the shell and it'll come out it'll wash off no problem now those big brown looking things those are pen shells I typically I don't even see them I'm sorry that I don't pay attention to them they just don't interest me that much but they are here and they're called pen shells and then I'm just getting a close look here it's very very different this close-up you got a lot more organic matter in there some a little bit of wood and stuff so I do have my own kayak I can get here on my own but I have toured here with both swf shell guide as well as nautical life shelling tours since the hurricane has come down things have really kind of changed so I'm coming out with two fantastic people to bring me to this beautiful place and I'm feeling kind of grateful so that's when I start kind of thinking about my patreon to support me monetarily so that I can help pay for things like this and gas and tools and all the other things I can do with my channel so thank you a heartfelt thank you so much for supporting me I really do appreciate you I told you we weren't done check out that awesome chalky Lucine I'd only ever found one that's only the second one I found the first one was on Koya Costa so that's right I do not remember what I had for breakfast but I can tell you about a seashell that I picked up about four months ago so on the bottom is the chalky loose scene and on top is the Buttercup leucine so they do look similar but look at how bulbous that chalky luciness and it's just a much bigger shell so cool so they're both members of Lucine family but they're just just a little different and so I'm kind of kind of dragging my feet because we're going to be leaving kais even though I literally gets the bolt with like seconds to spare I was on time barely because man I just really really enjoy beach combing and Kaiser is always so good to me and plus I have a gr I mean I've just found so many things I've got to see that live cone and this seashell I actually think is really beautiful it is broken so the lip of it is broken but I'm gonna make an exception because it's just so pretty speaking of pretty look at this View and I had grabbed a shell that I want to wash off so I'm over here yep trying to come over by the water to wash off this awesome another Fighting Conch so now you'll you'll notice my fighting concrete activity is picking up because I'm leaving the island and the shells are very heavy so I try to reserve them for the end of my trip I couldn't resist another Orange Shell wow super pretty oh a little moth mouth drill look at the little curriculum it's so cute I don't think I've ever seen a live one of those so I think I can maybe add maybe the mauve mouth drill to my repertoire maybe we'll see we'll keep picking them up this rib cancerous is so pretty too the color see how it just kind of gradiates from a little bit darker to white on the bottom oh it's so pretty what else what else what do I spy a little tiny little horse with a little white top yeah that's a good thing to slow down for and this angel wing beautiful so that's your traditional plain old angel wing absolutely beautiful so I'm just kind of Meandering along I am going to take a quick peek at this osprey nest here because there is an osprey up there making a little bit of a racket I did not mean to disturb it it'll come back no problem but I wanted to just quickly check out the nest it doesn't look terribly comfortable they really just use all sorts of sticks and whatnot and if that was Ed bald eagle nest it would be like five times that size they're just these massive nests so it's time for the my tour to wind down now Kai's normally some oil I shouldn't say normally sometimes will give you a nice like partying gift just like a flat or an alphabet cone or something but I just got my own part and gift that last prickly cockle I picked up and my entire shell bag full of all the treasures I found today so that was so fun and now I get to take another boat ride which is always a really nice way to end a shell tour back on the water again and then when you get toward the marina you see people kind of playing with other jet skis and other things and sometimes a dolphin a very blurry dolphin but a dolphin was there so that officially ends my time out on this particular trip it was super duper fun really fun now this is not all the fighting conchs I literally had a separate bag for all the fighting Kongs so that's some of the pretty ones some of the June juvenile ones all three different kinds of those angel wings there the uh Fallen the traditional and the false all those spiny jewel boxes the ponderous arcs lightning walks of Florida con a left banded tulips on the left there the Calico scallops a couple of nutmegs I got a bunch of those top snails some lettered olives some shark eyes um some of these Apple mirrix One lone worm snail we have pear wax Calico clams and then all those lace mirics are really cool all those Gotti Nautica those colorful moon snails we got a white section a baby ear a white albino lace lyrics a rosemary X that Tampa turret from last week the one baby um alphabet called the live cone we got to see I mean like it was just so much flipping fun that was fantastic next week we're heading back to Fort Myers Beach because I couldn't wait to see what maybe was left after red tide so we're gonna go check that out next week until then you have yourself a great week and I'll see you again next Sunday