Shelling Gulf Coast sandbars and islands from a kayak. No boat, no problem! PART 1
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- Shelling is a lot of fun, especially when you know what to look for. I help you learn and identify shells you might find if you visit Southwest Florida. I'm normally walking miles and miles of beach, but on this trip my friend and I used kayaks to get over to a couple of huge sand bars and an island off Marco Island, Florida.
I was hoping to find a Junonia or maybe a big ol' conch however it seems like us shellers are pretty serious about shelling, so even though we were on a sand bar, we were running into other shellers. I even ran into someone who recognized my voice from my TH-cam videos, which was cool.
Shelling Gulf Coast beaches is awesome! I am originally from NJ, so I grew up thinking the ocean was always cold and rough. Not down here! The gulf waters are usually really calm and in the summer the water gets really warm - it took my brain quite a while to really understand the gulf water was warm. There are some days it's not welcome because it can get pretty hot here in the summer but that's what swimming pools are for :)
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I am addicted! I stumbled upon this channel and am I ever glad I did. I live in Canada so we do not have beaches like this. I have learned so much about shells. Keep up the great work. Love it!
I’m so glad you found my channel too! Thanks so much for watching my beach walks. I am loving everything about where I live and so glad I can share it and teach some shell names along the way!
Yup..watched again ! Reminds me of a Great kayak shelling trip ! Need another !! Great video !!
May!! I'll be there in May!!🏝🐚👙🏖👙🐚😍
Yay!! I hope the wait goes quick for you! Thank you for coming along with me!
Love, love, love it! Totally bringing back childhood memories! That fiesty conch was a riot ... what fun!
Right?! Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for taking me along! Good for at least a week! Beautiful sand bars and islands. Can’t wait til next week!
I'm happy to provide you with your weekly beach fix! Thank you so much for watching!!!
Love the beach at that time of day, and love sandbars. ♡♡
You have fantastic taste :)
@@SWFBeachLife :-)
Thank you for transporting me to the beach once more. You have played a part in making the last year of isolation tolerable. I hope you find the most perfect giant horse conch shell soon!
Aww - thank you so much. I'm so glad I can bring you a little beachy goodness each week :) I appreciate you taking the time to watch my walks! I'll get that horse conch one of these days!
I love you 💘😚😚😚💘💘💘😚😚💘
Love this! That was such a beautiful day! Running into you out on the beach was a highlight of my week!
Hi Kayla from Ohio! It was nice to meet you too! I hope you found lots of great stuff while you were here. That bucket you were working on was pretty full so I bet you did - LOL! I hope Sanibel was kind to you as well!
@@SWFBeachLife, I found lots of goodies in both Marco and Sanibel to bring back to Oklahoma. I'll just be glad when they are all cleaned.
@@kaylagrafton9241 Oh I learned my lesson! I used to just dump everything in a bucket but the last time I organized my shells it took me ALL DAY and I killed my back. Now I tackle them one shelling day at a time. Best of luck cleaning! 100% bleach works terrific on those FFCs!
@@kaylagrafton9241 We are staying for the week on Sanibel and plan on driving to Marco Island for the day. Can I ask how the shelling was? Any sand dollars?
Wow, in a beautiful place to experience a beautiful sunrise! And the Big Bonus: Shell Hunting! 🐚 I can't think of a more perfect morning. 👌
Thank you so much for taking me to the paradiseish place 🥰🥰🥰
My pleasure 😊! Thank you for watching!
Good day for Banded Tulips. The close up encounters with the dolphins were really cool!!!
Thank you! It's always such a treat to see those dolphins. And it's almost manatee season! Maybe we'll see one of those. Or another turtle!!
Ah...Mom! I wanted to see more today! LOL! That sandbar was awesome and the water?! OMG! SO clear! I wouldn't be able to get in and out of a kayak, my body just doesn't move very well anymore. We have a canoe that hubby and I used for fishing, but I had to give that up a couple of years ago too. Hell to get old, so stay young, my friend! Thanks for taking us along with you and I can't wait for next week!
I'm getting out and about as much as I can. I hope to be climbing in and out of kayaks for many years to come! My body may get older, but my spirit never will :) Thanks for taking the time to watch my vids and comment Mary Lou!
I feel so relaxed after watching your videos. I have recommended your site to my coworkers that are attending my Mindfulness training sessions. ❤️🐚
That's wonderful! I'm so glad you enjoy your walks with me. I hope your coworkers get something out of them too. Thank you!
I will never see beaches like those, except through generous adventurers like you who enjoy sharing your wonderful treks with those of us who cannot partake. Thank you for including us! God bless you and yours.
Thank you for using the word partake. It's totally underused!
I was watching a video on TH-cam from another country and I too was like, " Oh wow, that's so beautiful!" I really do live in an incredibly beautiful part of Florida surrounded by so many beautiful beaches. I'm so happy to be able to share with others who won't ever get to partake. I am cooking up this new thing though that I hope to introduce in a few weeks. It might get you even closer to the beach! thank you for always coming along with me!!! xoxo
@@SWFBeachLife : "partake" ... i got a discount on a $75 word, so i figured i best use it before it expired! ! hehehe!
@@nowvoyagerNE LOL - Love it! Please do use your giant vocabulary words. I am a big fan of vocabulary and I eschew the mundane when possible ;)
@@SWFBeachLife : *eschew* ....my vocab is woefully sparse compared to yours, as i had to look up eschew! i first encountered "discerning" only a few years ago (i was a late-blooming Christian) and i initially had a proverbial devil of a time understanding it. once while in college (another late-bloomer experience), i needed a more sophisticated word for "wishy washy" for a college composition course assignment, so i went from the student union into the student book store (they were in the small small building) to borrow a thesaurus, and found "irresolute." that was one of the best words i ever pilfered. *:-D*
@@nowvoyagerNE Irreaolute is a pretty good one! Obfuscation is another word I like. Diatribe, vitriol - I’m a nerd on many levels! Xoxox
Kayaking out to one of the sandbars sounds amazing
I wish we could still kayak out there. A hurricane took out the marina that I would launch from.
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Loved this location. Sandbars are so much fun. Great finds. Can't wait to see the island next week. 😊🐚🐌🦈
Thank you so much for watching and coming along with me!
You are making it so hard to stay home while I am sick.. lol You will find that huge empty Horse Conch one day for sure..
Thanks for sharing all the treasures.
Get well soon!
@@nowvoyagerNE Thank you.
I hope you feel better soon Shannon! I WILL find that empty Horse Conch one day. I hope it's this year!
I was lucky to find a medium size horse conch my first trip to Sanibel. Found it in the bushes !? My son found Ine on the same trip in the water but didn’t seen anything but little ones on our other two trips. You will find one. There are others I am still looking for!
@@brendalunsford2530 Lol - in the bushes. Oh I’ll find min me one of these days. I’m already grateful for the beauty I’m going to find!
Mother Nature was blessing you that day! Thanks for sharing this wonderful adventure !!
She really was! It was incredible to be out there and so close to the dolphins too! Thanks for coming along with me!
Wow, that swirly striped shark eye is stunning; have never seen anything like it! Just wow! 👏
The gaudy naticas are one of my favorites. The really colorful ones are just stunning! Thanks so much for coming along with me!
Hello my friend. Thank you once again for such a wonderful video. I would have loved to have been there with you shelling. What a beautiful day you had. I really appreciate it when you show us the live critters. You are showing me critters I have never seen before and it is so fascinating!!! I love your videos so much. Please be safe when you are out and about. And thank you for bringing the beach to me.💖
You are so very welcome beach friend! My favorite walks are when I'm finding a variety of shells and a few critters to say hi to. I had so much fun out on the water this day. I wish I could do it every week!
That active critter was pretty cool, I love these videos. Great idea to go to sand bars. Just stunning
Thank you so much for watching!
This location was so awesome, can’t wait till next week. Thank you for the trip.
Aw - you are so very welcome! I was really excited to share this awesome trip with you all! Thank you for watching!
awesome shell tour. thanks for taking us along the shores we all long to be exploring. Loved the active fighting conch. Looking forward to next weeks adventure. God bless!
Thanks so much for coming along with me on my walk!
Wow, it was tulip and olive day. So peaceful and plentiful.
Just wait - I find tons of gaudy nautica on the island - Part 2!
I ran into your channel yesterday. You have a good voice and it’s nice to hear your excitement in your voice. I love to learn and the ocean makes this channel so calming. Great work
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy spending time at the beach with me!
There’s nothing like walking on a beautiful beach 🏝 love your videos and all your beautiful 🐚🐬 life is good 😊💞 xx can’t wait to see your next video x
Aw - thank you so much! Life truly is good and I am blessed to live in this beautiful area. And I'm so glad that I can share it for others to enjoy! Thanks so much for watching!
Wonderful finds...that big old whelk with the holes are the ones I love to repair and paint
And I bet you would make incredible things of them! I do not have your talent or patience! xoxo
Really really enjoyed this adventure to the sandbars, loads to see, and the sunrise oh wow 👌
It was such the absolute perfect day for this type of adventure. The weather, the winds - all of it was perfect! I'm looking forward to share the rest of my day next Sunday!
Wow, what beautiful scenery! Love the Dolphins that were soooo close to your kayaks. How cool! I noticed granny hands once again hehehe!! I get them finding fossils and crystals as well!!🤣 I just can't get over the awesome and beautiful critters and shells you find and show us!! Just love ❤️ it all!! Keep shelling on honey!!😁
I found yet another critter I have never seen before and I can't wait to share. It's so WEIRD looking! I will keep on walking and exploring and learning - I can't get enough!
Another awesome shell day. How much fun going out to a sand bar. And such awesome shells once again. Love your voice, I could listen to you all day. Thanks for sharing your video with us today. Love your channel ❤️❤️❤️
Well thanks so much for watching again Artie! I hope you're loving your new home here in FL!
I love your voice & listening to you too! Love all your cute sayings & names for things; so fun watching & listening!
@@debnordman1640 Thank you so much! I'm not for everyone, but I am glad you can appreciate my humor!
I truly like that you give directions to these sand bars at Marco Island! Love your channel!
Thank you so much! I'm one of those sharing kind of gals and I want you to be armed with as much info as possible! Thanks so much for watching!!!
You left us with a cliff hanger! Lol Those beautiful dolphins 🐬🐬❣️❣️❣️ Oh my goodness, I love them! Can’t wait for part 2! 💗
We're those dolphin awesome! It was such a fabulous day. Can't wait to share the island!
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What an awesome adventure going out to those sand bars. That's neat see a alive Florida Fighting conch. Love the dolphins there. I always enjoy your videos and look forward to the next one. Thank you.
It was pretty awesome paddling out there. And the weather was absolutely perfect! Thanks so much for coming along with me to see all the goodies I found :) Hope you have a great week!
Wow jackpot for the alphabet shells!!! Beautiful day tranquil!!!🏝🌊🛶🏖
Just wait - the island is the gaudy nautica jackpot! Thanks for watching Patty!
I’m excited to watch this!!!! So glad you got to experience this!!!
It was so much fun! And I know I mentioned it a few times in the video, but it was so, so pretty being out there. Can't wait to share the island!
This was a very fun day for you.
Great finds.
Thanks 😊
Thank you so much for coming along with me on my walk!
Oh I'm so Jelly Belly 🙃
That dolphin was just Beautiful 🐬❤️
My grandma died this morning, thank you for posting today, i needed to see the ocean 💜
I'm so sorry to hear this news. Sending you love and hugs from Florida. xoxoxo
@@SWFBeachLife thank you 💜
Very sorry for your loss
We watch all your videos over and over
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Thank you very much for all your videos. Your great! 👍🐚🐌🤙🥰🇨🇦
Thank you so much!!
Best shelling of my life was this location! Congrats on a great day!
Thanks so much! It was absolutely perfect. The weather, the company. I had such a great time. Thank you so much for watching and coming along with me!
I grew up in FL never knew would have liked shelling 101 in school FIELD TRIPS!!! TU SO MUCH!!!
You are so very welcome! I didn't know I was going to love shells either until I started finding them!
Beautiful day shelling! 💕
Looks like you are having a wonderful time. Great finds.
Oh I am! I couldn't ask for anything more. Thank you so much for watching!
Oh I loved this one!!! The water was so beautiful and so were the shells you showed us!! Have blessed week, can't wait for the next one! 🙆🏻♀️🙋♀️
Thank you so much! I can't wait to share the island portion. It was beautiful too! I hope you have a great week!
Loved it can't wait until next week thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for watching!
What an amazing trip! Girl, you're really living in paradise!
I was yelling at you at 25.35 when you left that lightning wulk who was beaten by a sponge. It is gorgeous!! And here in Europe we would pay a lot to buy a shell like this one. It has character with all those tiny holes in it.
Can't wait to see next week episode. I'm curious what you will find on that island.
Stay safe. Sending lots of love. 😘xx
That shell was actually lighter in weight because of all those holes. Really kind of neat! Our warm waters down here (we're actually sub-tropical) give us so many cool shells and creatures. I'm super lucky to live here for sure! I couldn't imagine shipping a beat up shell to Europe - LOL! I'll stay safe if you do beach friend! xoxo
What a magical trip! All those tulips and cones were awesome! Surely a record even for you! I look forward to your next adventure!
It really was magical! Wait until you see how many gaudy nautias I find on the island! Can't wait to share :)
Amazing shelling day! Can’t wait for next week’s video! I’ve been wanting to kayak out there. My husband and I did a guided shelling tour and loved it, but would LOVE to have more time to explore.
That is the rub with the touring companies. Only so much time. It was great! My friend used Florida Adventures to rent the kayaks and the service was stellar! Everyone was really nice.
@@SWFBeachLife thanks for the tip! My niece and her new hubby just moved to FM. I can’t wait to come down for a visit and take a day or so to go to Marco Island and give that a try!
@@ginacorry6994 Just make sure you check the winds and tides. It's not always such an easy paddle ;)
I enjoy watching your videos. I hope to find lots of tulips.
I hope so too! Thank you so much for watching!
Beautiful scenery!
Water is very calm ! Lake Winnipesaukee can get rough. I love to kayak
Nooooooo over too soon!!! Lol. An Awesome adventure!!!!! I would kept the broken tulio the horse conch and the lighting well! Gotta watch again... thank you!!!!!
If they didn't add 40lbs to my haul I might have considered it - LOL! I'm wearing this nifty aqua bracelet as I write this. I owe you an email xoxo
I would be in heaven out there. Love shelling.
I was in heaven!! Thank you for watching!
We’ve also kayaked to those sandbars and Dickerson Island. It is absolutely beautiful and great shelling!
We skipped Dickerson and went right to Kice but I want to go back and check out Dickerson! It was SO MUCH FUN!!
@@SWFBeachLifewe’ve been there as well! I would say the Kice is the best of them all!🐚
@@suebresnahan8572 Good to know!!! Have a great week!
Tip toe thru the tulips.... you had a great day.. thanks
Indeed I did! It had been a while since I'd found so many so I was psyched! Thanks so much for watching!
Such an awesome trip!!! You did so good !! 😉
Thank you for coming along with me!! 😁
Beautiful! The 10,000 islands area is awesome for shells. Went there for the first time and the essentially massive sandbar I went to was loaded with piles of shells. Those chunks of horse conchs were pretty cool! Especially considering if those were the first you found up until that point!
It was really, really awesome to be out there and the weather was absolutely perfect. I can't wait to do it again! Maybe next time I'll find that keeper conch.
I certainly enjoyed the kayaking trip...so much fun and u made it fun...too bad the horse conchs were broke😜 but going to these islands are so exciting and u don’t know what treasures you are going to find...thanks again shell friend for the beauties and the water and the porpoises 😎
We were so close to the dolphins! The whole day was such a treat. I'm excited to share the rest of the beauty of the 10,000 islands! Thanks for coming with me Janet! xoxo
I just discovered you and I’ve become a new follower. Thank you for the mini vacation. I love kayaking too.
Welcome aboard! I hope you learn about all the beautiful beaches, shells and critters I come upon!
Everything is beautiful.
It sure was! Thank you for watching!
Banded tulips are my favorite, especially the dark ones!
I personally really like the dark ones too! :)
Great treasures! I’m Shelling on Sanibel this week!
Thank you! And I hope you find lots of goodies at Sanibel! I was there this morning and it was chilly! Hopefully the winds were leaving good stuff on the beach for you.
Wow it beautiful and shells and love it
You had a lot of nice pickings on the eater’s edge in this video. What a lovely day. Your fiesta conch reminds me of the one I picked up...😂. I saw your comment on the shelter from Australia’s site; nice to know we both have watched him shelling as well. I look forward to next week’s installment of this great shelling day. Til then, bye.
I think it's safe to say us shellers on social media kinda either know each other or know of each other. I hope the Australian sheller does great on YT. Wish I could shell over there. Well, except for the part that they have things that CAN KILL YOU while you're shelling. That part I can certainly do without - LOL! Thank you for watching!
Neat adventure!👏😎👍
Thanks so much for watching!
I would be in heaven with all those shells and on that beautiful beach. I think I have salt water in my veins.
That's pretty much the way I feel every time I go beach combing. On this day, I really was in heaven
Awesome shelling! 💕
I love your channel, it is THE best!
Aww - thank you SO MUCH! I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a lovely comment!
Awesome finds and video!
THANKS FOR SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND VIDEO !!
You bet!
This was an awesome video💕
Thank you so much!
Wow, you have a whole staff now! Very impressive! :-)
I WISH!!! LOL. Oh man that would be awesome to hire someone to help me. Goals!
This was really cool! Would love to do that! BEAUTIFUL pear whelk! You found so many banded tulips, I lost track. ☺️ Some great live specimens too! Looking forward to next week and part 2!! xxoo
It was a lot of fun! Now I'm dying to get a kayak LOL! Hope you have a great week beach friend!
This was an awesome adventure!
Thank you - it really was!
OMG! I love kayaking and frequent my local lakes and rivers. We have kayaked in the Keys and hope to kayak the 10 Thousand Islands someday. Very cool seeing the live calico clam, the pear whelk at 15:30 was gorgeous and the white slipper shell was a total newbie to me. I’ll be eagerly awaiting part 2 next week.
Kayaking the Keys sounds AMAZING! This day of kayaking was so awesome I now have the kayak bug and I really want to get one. I can only imagine all the cool places I could explore!! Thanks so much for coming along with me!
I enjoy watching and I can’t wait till part two is it Sunday yet lol 😆 🐚🐚🐚🐚❤️
LOL! Not quite yet beach friend but soon :) Have a great week in the meantime!
I wish you would show us a picture of you and your husband I love love going shelling with you I love it I've not been able to go to the beach in years so I enjoy my trips with you thank you so much
You are so very welcome! I hear this a lot and my mother would have had a real hard time navigating the beach so I'm very conscious of people who aren't as mobile as I am. I'm happy that I can "take you" to the beach with me and show you all the beautiful scenery and goodies I'm finding! One day I might share a pic of my husband and I but for now I'm pretty happy just walking around anonymous :) One woman recognized me last week from my voice!
Thank you for sharing your beach adventures with us! We just got back from our annual st. Pete Beach vacation. We are lucky enough to spend a week every year, and then I spend the next year trying to figure out a way to get down there before March. Somehow that hasn't happened yet. My dream is to someday make it down to Fort Myers. Thanks for all the education of my favorite pastime of shelling. Sometime could you do a video on things like why the olive gets so shiny sometimes, or the difference between a Shark eye and a gaudy Nautica ect..i would love to know these things. Again thanks for sharing with us all!
St. Pete Beach for a week sounds pretty nice. I get to go to the beach all the time, but not for extended periods where I can just relax. I'll have to change that! There are so many neat beaches down here - I am so fortunate. I hope you get to make it down here too!
I have mentioned both of the items you are asking about: why olives are so shiny and the difference between a shark eye and a gaudy, so I want to make sure my new viewers get the info but not bore my viewers that have been with me for a while. It's a hard balance but I'll go ahead and tackle both of these items for you in some upcoming videos :) Thank you so much for watching!!
Right off the bat! bam! an alphabet cone! I knew this was going to be a good video! Loved seeing all the live critters, egg casings and the dolphins too! Kice island, I’ve heard good things about that place and can’t wait till next week to see what treasures you find!
P.s. I love FFC also, cute little buggers with their eyes and they way they thrash their little sickle around lol
I know - I can't resist those FFC eyes! I know these critters are all snails but they're just so cute! I shelled at Kice Island when I went on my first shell tour but it was on the complete other side. I think I might have done better on this day. Man it was fun and the weather was perfect! Can't wait to share the island part!
Will share, so enjoyable
Thank you so much!
Thank you for making this videos I learned a lot for the names of the seashells I love your video so thank you. Edit the ones I know Florida finding Kong, Abandon tulip, Alphabet cone, Shark eye, Scallops, Lightning welk, horse Kong, olives, sand dollar, sea star, clams, top shell, spiky Jewel box
Wow that's awesome! I'm so glad you're leaning your shells. I feel like it makes a trip to the beach more fun when you know what you're finding. Thank you for watching!
You are welcome but I think the seashells you collect are not here but I don't let that stop me I just like seashells I have 183 seashells I really like them they are all not perfect but the are awesome and you are too and this is my name Starlie and j am 9 years old the beach I go to find seashells is howbush maybe you could look it up one time I saw a pill of rocks and then I saw seashells I think the ones were alphabet cones because it was a cone I it was kinda my lucky day
@@joannasaito6650 If you found a cone it must have been your lucky day. They aren’t easy to find!
I love Kice! The best place in the entire world to go shelling! Hands down!
So jealous!!! Would love to be there and not in NE!!!
I'll tell you it was some pretty dang good shelling. You won't be jealous when hurricane season arrives! Thank you so much for watching!
Love your shelling
Thank you for coming along with me :)
You are the best !!!!
Aw shucks. Thank you SO MUCH! :)
Beautiful
Awesome!!!!!
You are!
You are making it such a tough choice of which beach for my husband and I to visit on our way through to the Keys..... have ya ever done night pre-dawn hunt? saw a guy on Sanibel and seems he was finding HUGE shells.... trying to figure the downside---other than just not "seeing" the beautiful surroundings....that is why we LOVE Your channel! you present so much to look at! Thanks again!
Sorry there's so many crazy awesome beaches down here! And each one offers something different. I can't wait to get back to the Keys - the place that convinced us we needed to move to FL.
I am going to try night shelling this week actually! I tried it once and the headlamp I had wasn't good enough AND it started to rain so I bailed and never made a video. I'm hoping low tide will be kind to me. I'm willing to see what I can find in the dark! Plus hopefully I can be first on the beach!
That looks like it's so much fun! I envy you. I thought I saw a tiny little hermit crab in one of your shells. I'm sure you check them all over.
When you shell in the water you have to be careful of critters for sure! No critters made it home with me :) I know how lucky I am to live here!
Love the live FFC!
Me too! I like when they come out of their shell and say hi :)
Our Lighting Whelks here in Georgia, are a Dark purple and cream colored. I have several the size of your hand. And I have several Lettered Olives that I collected on Tybee Island years ago. I am an avid sheller and advocate for sand dollars. I've seen people leave the islands with sand pails full of live sand dollars and then when they leave, they dump the now dead sand dollars in the trash cans. It upsets me to no end. Even with the signs, they just go on the sand bars and pull them out. So than you for your education on the critters
Oh that stinks. I'm not a big fan of telling people what to do, except when it comes to taking live critters. I've intervened quite a few times to make sure the creatures go back in the water. I've found that it's because people don't know any better. I have a whole video about sand dollars. I wish all those people knew they were alive!
Love your video 💓💓💓🙏🏼
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for the Kayak tour..you brave soul ! I'm inspired ! Did you rent your kayaks ? Great video !
My friend rented them but I'm dying to get one. Soon as I can figure out how to get one on my car and get it on and off by myself I'm getting one!
@@SWFBeachLife Amen !
So jealous! I try to make it to Sanibel for shelling twice a year. I've found some incredible shells on the only accessible by boat islands. You're so lucky to live there :) (tulip shells are my favorites)
Shelling from the beaches is really great down here, but an added bonus is definitely being able to shell far away from others on sandbars and islands. I am SO lucky to live here! Tulips are one of my favorites - I love them all!
Wow! Lots of tulips! I can’t wait until next week to see Kice Island! That where we went at Thanksgiving and found Sooo many shells! There tons of minis there to if you take the time to hunt for them.
I believe it on the minis! I've been there once before but at the south part of the island. This time we walked along the south end and it was gorgeous and AWESOME! Can't wait to share :)
I believe they dropped us off on the North end of Kice (where you can see the buildings on Marco) but found the most shells when we went around the corner on the West side. We got there by boat. I’m too old for kayaking! I think you left from the same marina we left from.
@@brendalunsford2530 It sounds like the same tour - Cape Romano Dome homes included in all. Seeing those was worth the trip. And the dolphins!
We didn’t see the domes. Where we went they have three (or four) drop offs and pick up times to Kice Island during the day. We had to drive down from Sanibel where we were staying so got the second drop off about 11:00 and took the last pickup at 4:30 so we got to stay a long time! I really want to go back. There were 7 of us and we had the beach all to ourselves except for a couple of people who didn’t stay long. I really want to go back there again so I can’t wait for your next video.
@@brendalunsford2530 I hope I don’t disappoint!!
That water 😍
I know! I kept pinching myself it was so pretty :)
You have to go up to Pass a Grille Beach at the jetty. This past weekend horse conchs and large whelks were found...Empty!! I didn't find them...but someday!!!
First thing I did was look up how far the drive is - LOL! I will be getting up more North one of these days. There's a bunch of beaches I want to see. I hope you get your giant one day too!!
Love the video, as always! So, I've been wondering, how do you know the egg casings are from lightning whelks and not from knobbed/pear whelks? I can never tell! Can't wait to see the rest of the trip! 😁
We don't get the knobbed whelks down here (sure wish we did!) and I've found so many lightning whelk egg casings I just know they're from the lightning whelk. The pear whelk egg casing looks very similar, however it's smaller in diameter. Hopefully I can find one of those to share one of these days! Great question!
@@SWFBeachLife That makes total sense! Thank you so much!
Hello! Thank you for your awesome videos! I love shelling but don’t get to go very often so watching your videos is so fun. I was wondering if your ever worried about the cone snails? Have you ever found a live one? I’ve heard they have a nasty sting, is that true?
I wasn't ever afraid of cone snails until I saw a picture of a live one that someone found down here while shelling not too long ago! It was an alphabet cone and it wouldn't kill a human if there was a sting but I'm not in any hurry to confirm this. Yes, the cones do indeed have a nasty sting but the ones around here aren't deadly like in some other areas of the world. Crazy right?
I wish my husband and I could go comb the beaches often. I would love it! No beaches in Ky though 😒
No, being in KY does indeed make it hard to go beach combing. It should like you need to plan a vacation!