SWF Beach Life is live!

okay well I've always wanted to test out going live hopefully window and I found a live sand dollar so I've been out here for a minute I'm on Fort Meers Beach I found a live sand dollar it's doing fine and well so all the live Critters I'm stay at the beach but I can't believe it's January and I have my feet in the water so that's a live live sand dollar it's pretty nice morning it's a little bit um windy and at least there's a couple of people down here um I have managed to find bunch of sand dollars my friend Paul gave me a cone I'm probably not going to find it right now I could go through my shell bag but I have been shelling not making a video I'm actually just kind of wandering around picking up shells um like I said I wanted to test it and go live so I'm on the south end of Fort Meers Beach uh it's you know it's not very green still because of the hurricane um and you'll have a lot of the buildings are still under construction and so that's that's the update I always kind of give you when I come down here put I'm at the south south end this is my favorite from a shelling standpoint you know it's been okay today it's been okay I got quite a few things in my shell bag it's very different from me I usually don't have my video I usually don't just roll I kind of chop up my videos but I like this clay the crown con tend to hang around in this clay it's a piece of an angel wing I have found um a smaller one it's just a piece of one see if there's anything there a Venus clam so let's see I found a couple sand dollars lots of clams the Calico clams Sunray Venus clams couple of the giant cockos got one tiny angel wing oh and I ran into my friend my shelling friend Paul he uh he gifted me a cone it's a lot of seaweed down here but you know what's nice it's nice to see a couple of people out a lot of times I come out well granted it's Saturday sometimes I do come during the week oh I'm going to stop and get this Sunray Venus clam I do like this so yeah in the videos I don't normally film this oh I think it might be broken yeah the rose petal telon Fort Myers Beach is fabulous for the rose petal ton shells I feel like this is going to be a good area for them too there's got to be more here yeah a little slim down here I mean there shells here's a dis doia there's a dosinia here's oh there's see oh Beach Bowl oh look it's beautiful cranberry on the inside oh that's gorgeous yeah hold on to that Beach Bowl fantastic I was also thinking of going home cleaning my shelves and just putting all of these on Etsy ooh I got to be care I don't want to sorry if I'm shaking around put my fort Meers Beach shells on Etsy all right lots of seaweed here see oops little rose petal tellon uh rose petal tellon lovely morning for a walk it has been so warm here it's been I today it's going to I don't know maybe in the 70s or 80s the last couple days yesterday it was in the'80s it which for me I just feels unusual but maybe not I've only been here here a couple of years only had a couple of Florida Summers under my belt oh I will tell you though I'm going on Monday oh shiny pointy lettered Olive cannot resist that Monday I'm going um to I'm going on a 10,000 Island shelling tour and I'm super bummed because here's a discosia well I shouldn't say I'm super bummed it's going to be in the 40s so I am not really looking forward to that but the day before is supposed to be a little bit stormy so that could kick up some good stuff so I'm going to freeze my tail on Monday but hopefully it'll be worth it we shall see yesterday I took a guided tour with the Santa Belle shell Museum I made a new beach friend Jesse that was very exciting I learned some stuff that I in turn can you know pass along to to you so here's a rose petal ton here here's two of them very different let's see any other any other good tinies here it's just kind of well here's a little itty bitty this is a channel duck clam I don't know yeah rinse these off buy shell so another yeah another little lettered Olive a broad rib cardida fabulous there's more Talon there's another rose petal Talon it's broken though here's one tiny onea yes another doia see a couple here's another rose petal ton no it's broken I won't keep that one what we say that's all the shells here's a cawk oh it's alive is it wait let's no no it's Pack full of mud so that's a cog they're kind of cool I didn't used to appreciate them growing up in New Jersey um and then I came here and I really really couldn't care less morning good morning let me a little starfish take a picture of that one and someone I think you're not keeping it though it's alive it's not alive it is alive it's alive it's dead well you do you okay it's it dead yeah if I'm not sure I always just leave it at the beach I um had it way up there okay all right well this is me good you have a good morning not even flexible yeah if you don't not a brittle star no it's not a brittle star that's a short spine sea star yep I just encourage people if you're not sure to just leave it in the beach yeah I usually do too good have a good morning yeah and I'm working on that video about collecting live things look that's an albino well no I don't think that's albino it's a very light yellow prickly Taco yeah so the C- hogs for whatever reason I've come full circle I kind of like them again this one with all the mud I'll leave that I'm going to keep this one though and uh yep I'm also working on a video trying to explain to people the difference between live things and dead things things that are okay to collect and things that probably should be left at the beach I am not a marine biologist or a doctor or vet anything even very smart like that so if I don't know if it's questionable I leave it at the beach and that's I just encourage other people to do the same ooh one of my favorites oh I love these so that's a Fighting Conch oh and it's absolutely beautiful on the other side oh we got some Barnacles here though so it doesn't look like a volcano so this this one looks like a volcano this one does not so that means it could be viable and so I don't keep it it's a barnacle they are actually an animal too I'll be at a little weird a little weird weird animal but it's an animal nonetheless fighting no I'm not going to keep that one so pretty though I see comments I'm having a hard time reading them I apologize I'm just going to keep going I'll read them later I'm sorry cuz usually I can't even see what's going on the camera anyway you know when you try to read things on your phone when you're at the beach well imagine trying to film and it can be difficult at times so this will be fun to go home and check out see if this is something I might want to do again in the future who knows hopefully you can hear me oh look how pretty that one is it's perfect yeah so I'm going to hold on to that fighting con and my shell Big's not that full so I feel like I can I don't have have to be all that picky I don't have all that much in my shell bag another Sunray Venus clam another here's a hinge dosinia there a ponderous Ark I don't talk about those a lot it's got all its black periostracum on it oh and I was just telling my husband about the tagus he asked me earlier if IID ever found a razor clam and I said no I have not but I have found tegas shells so that's a little tegas I'll show him later here is a Calico clam super fancy oh look a little tulip oh it's broken it's broken though so I'll leave the little tulip spiny Jewel box complete with a hole like if you're going to make jewelry out of it maybe someone else will find that useful there's another one of those tagas cool is this yeah that's nah I was going to say I think that's an albino but it's not it's a prickly cockle but I think it's just very bleached bleached from the sun it's a broad rib cida to oh that's lovely and it's beautiful interior yeah yeah we'll hold on to that too oh that's a pretty scallop so a Calico scallop lovely hi Wisconsin I got to see that I could see a little y i fig well I wasn't sure like I wanted to go live and I wasn't sure so I didn't really want to announce it and promise anything so I'm just testing this we'll see what happens you know see what happens and who you know in the future I could always you know announc that I'm going to come down here I obviously I can't control what all I find but I never can anyway can I so here's some broad rib cardas I think they're super fun oh a nutmeg little common nutmeg now I you know what I cannot say anymore I I used to say I've never found a hermit crab in a nutmeg and I finally did it took a couple years but I finally found a hermit crab in a nutmeg and I believe I will show that to you next Sunday there's a broken shark eye bummer hello hello Caren so I can see a little so nutmeg was fun and I'm actually kind of excited Sunday which is tomorrow we have the dry tarus trip um yeah I'm kind of excited to share that that that was a fun holy cow that was a fun trip I didn't even see this oh all right so this is a lightning Welk egg casing the mommy lightning Welk anchored this to the C4 and it has come loose so I'm going to examine this and I hope that it's mostly empty that we look at these discs and we're not going to see oh bummer I see some bibes in there yeah okay so you can excuse me you can also see there's some water in there that's kind of moving around so these could be viable I'm going to bring them back out into the water um you know is it I don't know if they'll survive or not but I just know that this that is viable and there's some other egg casings here too I think that that is a h shoot it's either abandoned tulip or a lace mircs I don't remember which but I'm going to take this Giant Egg casing it's probably I'm going to be it's probably not going to help it just makes me feel better that I I try maybe it'll sink so I'm going to take it out a little bit kind of push that out and hopefully the babies can you know cook a little bit longer and become little little lightning wel seashells well that was kind of exciting yeah Beach yeah not green it's from the hurricane this used to be green and well it'll come back it's just going to take some time so that's Lover's Key over there that that Island there that's Lover's Key across the channel that's big Carlos Pass so I'm really on the south end oh there's a pretty scallop so so since I have your guys attention let me know what you think I will go back home and read all the comments is this something that I should maybe try in the future or do you prefer well I I'm not going to stop my Sunday videos but should I maybe plan a walk like go out and and I I stopped because I found a albino prick the coaco that one's really pretty let me know what you think should I plan on doing this in the future can you hear me is it too Jumpy the video and all is this work you know is this give does this bring bring any value to you do you enjoy this thank you thank you for letting me know all right looking for the next next good seashell here's a little little juvenile Fighting Conch oh that's a good one it's all spiky yeah keep that one and it's funny too because up up north on the um the water was very very clear and now it's it's cloudy like I was walking in the water before I could really actually it's not we've had rain normally the water will get very like Caribbean Blue when we don't get the freshwater rain mixing with the salt water so that's why it gets a little bit cloudy when the fresh water from the Kusa Hatachi mixes with the salt gulf water it kind of just makes it cloudy so in the spring I know it's January but we've had some rain which is just to me it seems weird that we would get rain in the winter but like last winter I I felt like it didn't rain for 5 months and I guess I just expected it again but you know what it's Florida I guess Florida keeps you on your toes with the weather I'll tell you what a buttercup Lucine thank you who do I see that oh I can't read the name well thank you for your comments it's going to be helpful to me later so I appreciate you thank you so much all right it's getting pretty flat here I'm wondering if we should go through my shell bag so I could just kind of show you the things that I've collected so far and then maybe we'll sign off so I'm going to do that see if I can do this as quickly and efficiency efficiently as possible cuz I hook my um my shell bag to my backpack I was having neck pain and I was afraid it was because of the weird way I carry my backpack and my shells so now I have my shell bag like attached to my backpack so everything is completely linear like I'm not hunched over so so today I have collected so there's a couple sand dollars in here here's my sandard container so we have ah it broke not all of them survive so I have 1 and2 sand dollars put that on there and then oh actually I have the sweetest shell um so we have giant Atlanta cockle uh the cross these are Sunray Venus clams those are fun and then I do like the um Calico clams oh a hinged spiny Jewel box so I did find one of those kind of fun bag um let's see olives a bunch of really shiny glorious yeah olives uh obviously the rose pedal towns I did actually find a really nice turkey wing kind of when I first got on the beach it's a nice looking turkey wing but the shell I really wanted to show you where is it here it is so I have I have a bunch of beautiful fighting conks and uh you know the prickly cockles juvenile things your your oh there's a lace mirx actually my husband found that that needs a little bit of TLC but that will clean up quite lovely lace mirx and this now I did not find this but there is a gentleman who I see shelling down here and he uses a walker so he needs assistance and so he uses his walker and he comes down shelling and I just adore this man and so I was chatting with him he always finds the cones he he just has something with his cones and his name is Paul and look if I don't know if you can see right there you see a little pee so he gifted me this cone which I thought was really really sweet and this will be very special to me cuz I thought I don't know I just thought that was really nice of him so I have a fun show that uh some fun shells here you know what I maybe I'll put them on Etsy later you know I'll clean them up and get them on Etsy we'll see but I'm having a great time here thank you for allowing me to share a little bit of my Saturday morning with you I hope you can hear me I'm going to continue my glorious walk down here I'll see you again I'll see you tomorrow on our regularly scheduled Sunday video oh guys there's a dolphin wait I'm not going to see is it more than one this is why I love Florida can you I hope you can see it all right I'm going leave my shells there I'll yell anyone see it see it look it's right there oh my gosh so I'm going to hang out a minute maybe it'll do that again so it's feeding it's um it's kind of coring the fish it found some fish and it's going to try to drive the fish into more shallow water shoot I'm leaving my shell bag but that's okay yeah my shell bag's fine that's so exciting and I we I saw they were very I guess the Dolphins are very active right now cuz I saw some Dolphins yesterday on sound about as well as well it looks like just one normally when you just see one that's going to be a male they usually travel by themselves or in pairs kind of like elephants I guess they act the same way the Pod is for the mommies the babies and the females and then once the males get too big and rambunctious they get kicked out so it's probably a male good luck dolphin good luck flipper all right that was a cool way to sign off so thank you so much everyone I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll see you tomorrow bye