Florida Shelling Jupiter Island; Coral Cove Park. We went across the state to look for new shells!

beach friends we're hitting the road again and this time we're taking a look at another beach on the east coast of florida off jupiter island coral cove park we found some first-time shells we've never found before and serendipitously came across blowing rocks preserve a ridiculously beautiful limestone seashore which i'll show you and i'll tell you a little bit about if you like the beach and beachcombing every week i bring you along with me on my beach explorations so i recommend you subscribe to my channel and hit that notification bell so you don't miss any beachy goodness so here we are back on the east coast of florida at coral cove park here's the facilities they do have the restrooms the outdoor showers barbecue grills picnic tables plenty of free parking my favorite price just don't bring the dog they're not allowed to have dogs on the beach so this was kind of neat because we're actually walking up to get to the water where i usually visit in southwest florida it's flat flat flat so this was kind of fun and there was like a reveal because you go up the stairs and then you kind of hear the ocean and you get to the top it was pretty spectacular so let's get down there and see what kind of goodies we're gonna find all right seems fitting that the first shells we find are olives i think i'm just gonna start calling myself the olive whisperer because i do seem to find them you throw me on a beach i'll find an olive so that's kind of fun used to finding these guys looks like maybe a little slipper or something so there were some rocks down on the water and i was really excited hoping to see more wildlife crabs or an octopus i'm dying to find an octopus or some sort of critters but it was just little pools kind of collected and super pretty so this is another shot this is coral cove park i don't know how you all swim in that somebody tell me and in some of the rocks there we have look at that is a striped false limpet and that shell is just stuck stuck stuck now when i did my research i was really strictly looking for beaches that would have good shelling and i got to find these fabulous formations so i was feeling pretty lucky it was really really pretty all right let's go find some shells all right here we have another one of those little spectral bittersweet clams they were so fun and here i believe is a leafy jewel box a little beat up but it's all right now that is a spiny jewel box not so spiny that's that's actually a bumpy jewel box uh not spiny at all another olive i suspect i might have grabbed him out of the the water there and look at these guys all right i guess that qualifies as a critter these are barnacles they're actually distant relatives of other crustaceans like crabs which is interesting all right here we have how cool is that that's a sundial we've never found one my husband found that lucky guy so we cleaned him up and oh we were i was really happy with that i thought that was so cool never found one before okay i think i think that's a tinted cantharis maybe it's missing a piece very rounded hard to tell neat little guy and this is a piece of a lightning whelk just a chunk but i guess those guys he did have a really hard time getting on the beach hole that's for sure oh and here we have another giant bittersweet clam i don't usually go for clams but they're so fun and here's another just interested in the stuff i don't usually find hmm a little chestnut turban he's a little beat up but at least he's recognizable what do we got here another chestnut turban that's funny the top is all beat up but the rest of them is pretty good a cool little find another olive he's almost completely intact he's missing his point but he's still a cool shell and another one of those bittersweets with a hole i wonder if somebody snacked on him this guy i haven't a clothes rather thick was not all that thin so it's got a little bit of oomph to it no clue what that is just kind of interesting and another bittersweet those guys are hearty so i could see how they do stay intact and look at this i wanted to call it wampum but it's not it's not a northern quahog has no purple in it but i just thought that was kind of cool like a shell coin okay remember when i said i have a story about a bubble to tell you i picked that up thinking it was a bubble and i turned it over and it's a cowrie the first calorie i've ever found it was so cool this guy is a coffee bean trivia cowrie i was psyched with that and then i went and picked up more of the spectral bittersweets because they're fun and straight we have another chestnut turban right he's a little bit beat up he's kind of missing a piece there but he's a fun little guy and a nutmeg he's missing his top but still nice little find okay and this guy is a round rib scallop he's flat didn't think it was a zigzag so we're going with round ribbed and this guy i'm going with pearl just based on the shape looks like somebody might have snacked on him and here we have i'm pretty sure that's a sundial i know it's just a piece and we've only found one like a couple seconds ago but i think that's what that is and a bunch of olives my husband most likely found those and gave me the a handful of shells and that's what he found and looks like here we have an atlantic giant cockle a cereth i think those two are tinted canthas and then this other guy which again super hard to identify maybe a florida rock snail perhaps so hard to tell when they're small and they're also kind of probably been tumbling around for a while we did get rained on a little bit and the rain i don't mind so much but when you're on the beach you're really exposed and it's the lightning so i use this app it's called my lightning tracker you'll see that little zigzag that's what the icon looks like on your phone and basically you can set it and so you can tell it within how many miles you'd like to get an alert on your phone so i use that when i'm out and about just to make sure i don't get zapped here we have another scallop of some sort i'm not really sure i think i found a little wee one last time not really sure and i have another not really sure what this guy is looks like a boring sponge got to it that's too bad and well this piece i know that's a true tulip so at least i can identify what that guy was a nice big fat shell that broke womp and what do we got here okay kittens paw that's a fan favorite and another i know it's a giant bittersweet but it's a little one so he's cute cute little giant and here we have a relatively beat up serath oh look at how yellow he is that's another leafy jewel box oh that's neat it's like glowing and then we have a little look at this a wee little clam that's a little bittersweet and another seraph and this i believe is a piece of a scotch bonnet which is one of those elusive shells for me i have not found one yet but i'm hoping so so far at least i found a piece and it looks like i might have another deposit from my husband of some olives and some jingles kind of cool that they're black white and a yellowish color and another sarah and another little false limpet or a striped false limpet you saw some live ones earlier i have no idea how i managed to find these teeny tiny shells speaking of teeny tiny or this other little orange guy it's a scallop of some sort with a tendril or a i don't know what that is another bittersweet oh they're fun so we're out on the beach and at this point we're heading north and i do see some rock formations and i definitely want to check that out so i'm going to make my way over there but in the meantime i figure i'll pick up this chestnut turban pretty good day for turbans they're not exactly rare but i don't find them all the time so it's kind of cool to find a few now what we see here this is the south end of the blowing rock preserve i had not done a lot of research about it just because i was really there for the shelling but this is this incredible limestone shoreline really really cool the preserve was closed when we visited but we got to see at least some of it the rock formations here these are made of anastasia limestone and during extreme high tides and after the winter storms the sea rushes up against these rocks and plumes of sea water can go up to 50 feet in the air really really neat it was gorgeous it was absolutely gorgeous so probably gonna have to skedaddle it looks like weather is rolling in on us again we were pretty lucky to at least spend a couple hours out there and found some good stuff and as we're heading off the beach it looks like i scored this cute little clam i don't know what he is he's cute and this neat shell i thought this was really cool and had a very hard time identifying it i believe this is a green star shell it is in the turbine family and the reason i think it's a green star shell because it's in the turbine family and turbines will have that iridescent inside so i thought that was pretty cool so this is our haul for the day whole bunch of olives i told you i am the olive whisperer but we found a couple other goodies like some jingles some pieces i can't identify um what do we got kitten paws sarah's a bunch of those chestnut turbans that sun dial so cool and that cool green star shell couple nutmegs there's the sundial yeah i know it's broken i don't care and the cowrie oh i was so happy about that i don't find them ever so finding that one little wee guy was so fun and a couple colorful scallops look at this little baby turkey wing these cute and the bittersweets yep i had to pick up some more couldn't help myself there's all those turbans we did pretty good we found quite a few neat guys so that was our haul from the second day of our trip out to the east coast really really fun ridiculously beautiful beaches and i absolutely loved it so guys thank you for hanging with me thank you for watching thank you for your comments just thank you for being you i appreciate you and i'll see you next week