Virtual Beach Walk Florida. Marco Island Treasure Hunting!

well hi there Beach friends the moon is out the sun is not quite and I've been up for a couple of hours because I wanted to make it down here to the south end of Marco Island to catch a little bit of a good low tide now that exposes more Beach so I can find cool things like this Calico scallop so we will be looking to see what other kind of beach Treasures are out there and it really is beautiful so it's going to be a nice couple of hours here here we have a yellow prickly cockle and as I find shells along the way I'll ID them if I can most of the time I can tell you what we're finding and if we see any Critters like this live Florida Fighting Conch well we're gonna stop for a second and say hi to that Critter as well so this little guy is not done with its shell so we will leave it here at the beach and go see what other kind of things we might be able to discover so if you're ready to see what's out there today let's go to the beach [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you all right I think we all can agree being on the beach is pretty cool but being on the beach at this time in the morning I it's so pretty so I'm not alone I'm not the only one out here catching that low tide so it does look like we're gonna have a little bit of a negative low tide so we will be able to transverse around the jetty at the south end of Marco Island now this is kind of um it's a smaller place once you kind of get around the corner there's not all that much beach however typically it kind of catches a lot of great stuff so it's not a lot of beach that we'll be covering but it is big enough where lots of people can come here and find great Treasures this blew me away that's a leafy Jewel box what I have never found one over here on the West Coast of Florida but there we are so this is toward the beginning of January this is a few weeks ago but it is let's say the middle of January just to kind of give you an idea when I was here oh and the sun coming up is giving it that beautiful pink Hue and the lighting so that is a banded tulip which are relatively common down here in the Marco area once you head north not so much there is the moon snail that is a shark eye moon snail there's all sorts of different Moon snails we tend to find two down here the shark guy and the Gotti Nautica that is a lovely welcome that is a lightning Welk awesome size nice color I think we're off to a pretty good start all right that is another Welk one of the only two welks we have down here that is a pear whelk very nice color on that unfortunately that Critter was probably alive not too long ago and there we have yet another banded tulip awesome now super happy to be out here just in general and the other reason I'm super happy out here is because I am not freezing my tail off it's really not so bad I'm wearing two long sleeve shirts and then a windbreaker on top of it shorts and then my my uh water shoes that's it so it really wasn't so bad I'm not freezing my tail off and it's probably because it really wasn't all that windy so it's mid-January I'm kind of showing in the water very very happy here we have a lettered Olive and that was a little piece of a jingle kind of jammed in the opening of that pretty little shell oh here is a common although it doesn't really look that common that is a nutmeg a common nutmeg gorgeous gorgeous little shell and then when you see a piece a shell you never know sometimes you push it and that's all there is and sometimes the whole shell is indeed attached I always say just check it out you never know another really nice nice looking lightning look okay we got a critter yeah when the com um the color of the shell is very very dark pretty good chance the Critter is not done with it yet so there we have a live little tiny Apple mirrix you can see the shell is not empty so we'll leave that Critter here now this area is really it's it's great and it is kind of like I mentioned earlier it's on the smaller side so I did run into a couple of my subscribers on this day you kind of had me pinned in here so I did get to say hi which was so cool I love running into you guys it was really really awesome so thank you for coming over and saying hi I'm having myself a good old time I hope you did as well and that really cool striped Fighting Conch all right we have a critter that is not quite done with its home yet but wow it's pretty that is awesome I feel a lot better when I'm not making fun of the shell if there's a critter in it I know they can't you know understand me but but still and here we have a giant Atlantic cockle I like to call these Beach bowls yep and check out oh beautiful just in case sometimes you know the underneath isn't as pretty but that one happens to be quite lovely now here I'm trying to be sneaky see those three heads there there's people in the water the water temperature is about 67 degrees I looked it up I wasn't gonna go swimming I'm assuming you are some of my maybe Canadian friends or people who come from somewhere really cold because I wasn't that cold but I wasn't about to go swimming here we have a kitten paw awesome and might as well pick up this juvenile Fighting Conch I know it doesn't really look like one does it looks like a completely different species but it is a Florida Fighting Conch and then when you're shelling in the water like this it's like oh this looks great until you pull it up right I mean I'm in so much but you never know you know unless we're gonna keep at it I'm like not quite bobbing for apples but you don't really know oh until you kind of get it above the water beautiful Fighting Conch of the orange variety which I happen to like awesome [Music] wow yes the next thing I thought was like oh please be empty I like the stripes the zigzags we got some really cool patterns it needs a little bit of TLC you need to clean that up a little bit definitely hold not to that gorgeous shell yay so it is hinged it is a little bit spiny and it is a jewel box it was a spiny Jewel box which obviously is hinged it is connected those are bi-valves so there will be two pieces of the shell this is a gastropod that is so that's only going to be one piece of the shell that is a little Florida horse conch awesome and so this is just kind of like an eye candy shot we're just looking there's so no a boat came by and that's why the waves there's a little bit more waves than you normally would see a boat came by kind of pushes up those waves just kind of watching all those shells rolling around in the water yep it's a pretty sight another gorgeous Fighting Conch beautiful oh and these little shells man I have a really hard I don't know I guess I'll just keep picking them up until I figured it out I think that's a mauve mouth drill I think the little drills there's the gulf oyster there's an Atlantic golf drill there's this mauve mouth drill and they really kind of confuse me but I think that's what that one is this I know that is a top snail super easy and as a matter of fact we have a couple kinds of top snails that happens to be a jujube top snail and the kind of the I like the colors they kind of range they'll go a little bit onto the purple side these The Sunray Venus clams don't typically range in color usually they're pretty pretty much the same color but this one has a little bit more yellow than it normally does so that's kind of neat oh pretty oh and empty so that's a itty bitty Apple lyrics excellent and this I think that's a juvenile brown pelican it was just busy grooming itself and I don't know I just kind of liked admiring the Shell at such a close dis or the shell the bird at such a close distance see I got shells on the brain so so we might as well just keep looking for those now another thing which is really kind of wild is this is pretty typical for a Southwest Florida beach you're pretty much always gonna find something which is just so fun and there's typically you know a lot of times I say there's nothing here there's usually something it can be a little bit slower of a day but there's usually at least something to admire out there so here we have yet another banded tulip a little bit of sea gunk in there no problem okay what's here all right that's another one of those Moon snails that is a gaudy Nautica that just completely covered with some other beach stuff oh so that is a tinted cantharous that's one of my newer shells I like to appreciate I do find one in Nice condition in a couple of minutes so we'll admire that one a little bit more here I'm just kind of seeing do I see anything oh lettered Olive why yes I do excellent and I'm so lucky that I can be picky with the shelves like that one's but yeah I'm not gonna keep that that lettered Olive was probably shiny and pointy so I probably kept that so the beaches down here in Southwest Florida are just not like any other beaches they're they're pretty awesome and another lightning Welk oh beautiful dark color it's a little bit beat up on the aperture but that's okay beautiful lightning Welk awesome and another oh it's a lot it's alive so that is another Apple lyrics see how dark it is and that's like again typical when the animal is still in the Shell at least for everything other than the Fighting Conch um the color seems to be richer the shell would be a rich color that's another one of those pair welks pretty good size probably been hanging around for a little while it doesn't have any of that really kind of yellow undertone it's mostly white but that's a nice looking pair well oh and a worm snail I do like me a good worms now so think I'm thinking that's going to be either a Fargo or a West Indian either way it's a worms now a chestnut turban okay our little bit on the beat up side that is quite all right though probably gonna hold on to that anyway a little Chestnut turban and an apple mirrix it's empty excellent so we'll hold on to that Apple lyrics now those are different than the lace mirrix I just say they're a little more squats like some kind of squished them you took the top and bottom just kind of squished them together a top snail and that's more and again these range kind of from like a golden color to almost like a purpley color like that really kind of cool a top snail a jujube top snail and okay we have an auger and a little banded tulip excellent and a Mossy Arc so that's like the weirdo cousin of the turkey wing really interesting shell though like it the other really kind of neat so that is a Mossy Arc kind of cool all right so this it's a little Florida Fighting Conkey started there in that hole there and it's kind of flipped its way over here we're gonna watch them this is how it moves ugh so I can't I can't see or stand to see this poor little thing struggle so I'm gonna give it a little Uber I'm gonna give it an Uber to the water's edge there we go there you go so that is a little Florida Fighting Conch and this I thought was so cool because it's not natural to find black scallops at least not down here so this was probably buried and soaked up a lot of color from the the sand isn't that beautiful so I'm gonna hold on to it is a Calico scalp it is not the right color those are the right colors so those are two Calico scallops that's the way they typically look and we got a Bonus worm snail in there just because and then here we have a rough scallop you can kind of see the texture on the front of those ribs of the shell so that is a rough scallop I do like being a good Florida prickly cockle so that is a prickly cockle love admiring that sherbet like color on the inside awesome yep really cool now here's a shell I don't typically pick up just because they're everywhere this is a cross-barred Venus clam so this is the most ubiquitous clam on the beach you every time you come here you're going to see one of those I can just about guarantee it these are a little bit more on the worn side and they typically on the other well I wouldn't say typically sometimes they can be purple on that undersigned they can be kind of a gold color on the underside and then when the shells themselves get worn down they kind of take on like a purple color so those are all cross-barred Venus clam shells they are always always at the beach this is not always so this is a fun find right it's a little bit on the smaller side but we have a tiny little lightning walk we found a couple bigger ones it's a little bit on the small side oh cool now this I do not find all the time this is a purplish simile pretty cool I'd say I want to say that's only maybe the second or third one I've ever run across so that was like running across those kind of different shelves the ones you don't find all the time this is a dark serif it is on the common side but still a neat looking shell right looks like a baby Triton or something just a it's a little serith and Beach friends I cannot believe it once again wentzel trap now I kind of had them on the brain so it's not like I was completely unaware that they would be here considering the last time I was here I found a really big one how cool is that so that is a Wenzel trap in Dutch it means spiral staircase as you can see so the beautiful little white shell and that's about as big as it's going to get which in my opinion makes it just kind of they're just so pretty and then I do carry around something that looks like this in my shell bag and so I'll keep my lentil traps my delicate shells things that I don't want to break maybe if it's hinged or something I'll keep in that so just a little tip if there's things that you find that you want to not lose or keep intact I have that little hard plastic case in my shell bag and so I'm kind of hoping I see lots of stuff in a shot like this oh let me just get that worm snail kind of hoping that maybe I'll stumble across another lentil trap kind of rolling around so I did see some bubbles I see some Barnacles kind of rolling around poor little broken shells and just kind of hoping like a lentil trap will appear let's see there's another bubble so that's good no not here anyway no more lentil traps but that doesn't mean that there's other neat things to check out that is a spotted slipper snail and those slipper snails are always going to kind of have that shelf on the inside yep a spotted slipper snail oh and a broad ribbed cardida so those have those nice deep ridges really like a hearty shell it's a broad rib cardita oh what do we have here another little apple mirrix ugly nice color so we have another broad rib cardida and an apple lyrics oh I think I see a nutmeg hope I'm not ruining it for you guys trying to guess the shells I'm sorry but I did I did spy a nutmeg another common nutmeg beautiful little beach stuff on there that'll pick off no problem looks like I'm going for the Calico scallop uh very nice I used to go over to Sanibel and I would pick up my fill So lately when I go to the beach I will grab as many scallops as I can and another moon snail this one's a little bit yeah it's got a couple stories to tell it's probably been hanging out here for a while and I think I'm going to be quiet for a little while and let you enjoy some beach time thank you foreign I can only be quiet for so long got distracted by another Calico scallop all right we're back on the hunt looks like a tiny horse [ __ ] with its little white tip so that is the Florida state shelf the horse conch but just a wee little version of it oh cool all right so there's a turkey wing I was kind of admiring that weird Mossy Arco earlier it's a turkey wing excellent it's a little beat up it's a little on the yellow side not a perfect specimen but that's okay there's another Calico scallop nice bright orange color on that awesome little seashell okay here we have a purple tagalus now sometimes that purple tagless really kind of looks more on the brown side because of its periostricum that is just its regular Old Shell now here we have a horse muscle but you can see that brown that periastricum on it and that shell has also got a nice purple color on it so it's a horse muscle another one of the shells that in theory you could come down here and collect another common nutmeg it's in good shape all right it's a little bit slimy on the inside no problem but then a little bleach can't fix okay another horse conch terrific and those will vary sometimes they're like really really orange sometimes they're on that yellow side just kind of fun fun to see what kind of what kind of colors they'll be now that is a bubble that one I'm kind of rolling around it's like huge and then two other little drills I'm not great at the drills to begin with you add a little bit of wear and tear and forget about it so they're little shells they're pretty it's about as good as I'm gonna get from an ID if anybody else knows by all means drop me a comment I'd love to know a little horse conch and if it wasn't for the color I might not ID that one as well but we do have a little lettered Olive a little little Leonard Olive and a little horse [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm going for that cancerous so here is another cancerous this is a ribbed cancerous it's got a little chunk of a barnacle on there but that will pick off no problem so that is a little ribbed cantharous mechanical when they're in nice shape those are really really pretty a little little baby lettered Olive what else oh well hello there lace mirix got all your bits and pieces yeah you're a little bit you've been here for a little while but you pretty much got everything awesome that's a little lace lyrics all right now what do we see oh no way another wentzel trap all right it's a little bit fuzzy but that is indeed a wentzel trap it is missing a little bits of his top and there is a little piece of the aperture that's broken but still like it's always really exciting even if it's you know not pristine condition really exciting again to find another one of those lentil traps oh a critter one of the sea stars I used to call these starfish but they are not fish they are sea stars or Arcana derms and they're related to sea cucumbers and sea urchins so they also kind of have those five pieces it's called penta-radial Symmetry and you'll see that in the sand dollars lots of different Critters the urchins you see they'll also have five pieces to those sea stars kind of cool that is a Jasper cone and you'll notice on the bottom they don't get very big they kind of have those ridges along the bottom of that shell so if you find a baby little cone like that with some ridges on the bottom you're probably looking at a Jasper cone now that is a tinted cancerous and for whatever reason in the last couple months I've decided that these are beautiful shells I've been finding them for years and I don't know why but I just all of a sudden think that they're really pretty shells and here it just kind of reminds me of construction you see people kind of hanging around I know there's still a lot of things that are kind of beat up after the storm but still Marco Island in all in all is in pretty good shape from what I can tell from the beach anyway here we have a big old auger aren't those cool I do like me a good auger gotta be careful with those Critters love hiding in there see what else is rolling around here and we're really lucky that well at least right now most of the time this is what the gulf looks like this is what the Ocean looks like it's kind of a lapping not really like these big waves sometimes there's a little jingle or a baby's foot but when you can just kind of walk around looking at stuff picking it out of the water it's pretty fun and for those of you who've been watching my channel for a while you probably know what we're looking at right about there that is a sea urchin so I'm not gonna pick it up it's covered itself with shells I'm just going to leave it be and we have a piece of sea glass not really that is more like garbage so I'll be taking that off the beach as well and a nice giant Atlantic cockle I did find myself a couple of those smaller shells so I might be in the market for a beach Bowl kind of help me out carry some of my goodies right now I'm just wondering am I chasing something did I find something all right so I thought I was chasing a lentil trap and that is a fly Speck Seraph trickster trickster of a shell and that is a buttercup leucine love turning that over seeing if it's very very buttery just sort of buttery that one was pretty buttery so there's a decent amount of stuff on the beach I typically prefer the water but I do like to take a peek just in case so we have a piece of a shark eye looks like a giant yeah it's almost looks albinistic right it's a little bit on the faded side that's a Florida prickly cockle I think that's kind of cool another jingle a black jingle and a Coquina bits and pieces but dare I say there's always something another jingle I saw some bubbles so really frankly depending on what you were looking for you're gonna do pretty okay oh Neato I have found these before that is a spotted eagle ray grinding plate kind of neat I don't know if you've ever seen pictures or if you do as a spotted eagle right they are gorgeous creatures I happen to just be at an aquarium to see one not too long ago they are absolutely beautiful oh shark eye oh I wish we had met I don't know maybe two months earlier I don't know what do you think a couple I don't know how long does it take to get beat up like that it's not too beat up it's in pretty good shape I'm definitely gonna hold on to it but I wonder I wonder how long it takes for shells to kind of start breaking down with the color here we have I'm going to call this a peekaboo shell so that is an apple mirax and I kind of like seeing that interior of the shell that you don't always get to see so I'm going to hold on to that I'm gonna hold on to that too assuming it's empty yep beautiful Fighting Conch though it's cool colorings awesome another nice looking Calico scallop looks like I picked up a couple more things like a lightning wheel and a Florida Fighting Conch fantastic oh hi snowy egret and but the birds if you just you know please don't chase them off the beach they need their energy and if you kind of just give them a little bit of space they're okay with Sharon sharing the beach with you so as in typical swf Beach life fashion I'm having myself a great time it's the middle of January I'm walking around in water looking for seashells and goodies life is good my friends life is good oh it's a lettered Olive probably gonna leave that here but I think I'll go ahead and hold on to that lightning Welk awesome little shell and again she's really happy that I could be in the water sometimes it's just too darn cold oh garbage okay we're definitely gonna keep that I like to concentrate I feel like the bigger stuff people will take care of I love picking up the little pieces of garbage right that's a little bit bigger than little but I like picking up as much garbage as I can another that's almost massive top snail gorgeous awesome color all right his top is missing a little bit but cool looking tops now so that's it for us my friends I'm gonna walk back around the jetty let's take a look the temperature is 69 it was really really nice day and again I'm thinking about how lucky I am to live here do things like this and share it with you so for the garbage I didn't remove that much and that's okay 0.35 pounds in garbage and overall in total since I've been keeping track for almost a year I've removed a little over 23.58 pounds of garbage also removed lots of pounds of shells too we have a bunch of those lightning welks a bunch of those Florida finding conks and I know they look kind of crusty but I swear they clean up beautiful that one's got a little bit of purple on the inside so that's kind of neat I did grab some of those top snails some pear whelks some shark eyes we have spiny Jewel box couple of those tool banded tulips the mossy arcs the giant Atlantic cockles a bunch of drills and other little things some prickly cockles some hoarse muscles some yellow prickly cockles and then some tinies we have the banded tulip and apple mirix got a little top snail a little lightning look little buttons now a Jasper a kitten paw little little Olive we have the Sunray Venus clams the augers the serrates a couple of those Chestnut turbines that cool purplish similes Jingles a bunch of those Calico scallops or else we got more tinies the horse [ __ ] did pick up a couple of those couple lace mirix shells and then kind of moving into my favorite section which would have been the leafy Jewel box the hinged spiny uh Joe box as well as the two lentil traps so nice variety it was a fantastic day to be out there and it was really fun I did have myself a really good time patreons thank you so much welcome to patreons and everyone who's been hanging around with me for quite a while now thank you so so very much for monetarily supporting me and coming along to the beach with me next week we're gonna head back to Fort Myers Beach and I'm going to a different area of the beach obviously I'm going to tell you all about it I find another brand new to me show that I'm super excited about so have yourself a great week and I will see you again next Sunday