Florida shelling; Negative low-tide shelling at Little Hickory Island. Live tulip encounter!

Florida shelling fascinates me. I love finding and identifying all the beautiful shells we have down here in Southwest Florida, and I love it even more when we can meet some of the critters that create the beautiful shells I find. On this walk we are going to see a live tulip and then see him in action under the water. They are quite graceful and dare I say quick for a snail! We'll see a ton of live Florida Fighting Conchs and a live Lightning Whelk, which I haven't come across in a while.

We decided to go shelling on this particular day because I was really hoping I might score a horse conch or some other big shell during the negative low-tide. I did manage to find a whole bunch of live sand dollars and if you'd like to learn a little more about this critters, you can view the video I created all about sand dollars: https://youtu.be/K9H0EjZQsqs

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