Hello from the mountains of Colorado, Maddie!! We're more than a mile high here and so very far from the beach! I love your enthusiasm, your kindness, and your humble nature. You are truly an absolute joy to watch. I just got home from Southwest Florida and found the BIGGEST Alphabet Cone (King Kone, if you will) anyone has every seen! I would love love love to shell with you in Australia someday! ~Jas
G'day Jas, Happy New Year 🎊🥳 Oh wow, hello to you in Colorado! You are quite a long way away from the ocean... must be beautiful up there, though! Thank you so much for your kind words, my goodness, you are wonderful. It sounds like you had a fabulous Christmas trip to SW Florida - and you had a lot of luck too!! There are heaps of beaches with shells in Australia too, you'll have to decide what kind of shells you'll want to find and make a list of places to see!! Thank you so, so much for watching 🥰
G'day Denise 👋💖 Thank you so much for watching this recap 🤩 I was so excited to put together a list of my favourite shells like this; it's a fun way to end the year (and give me a break from the crowded Christmas beaches 😅) I hope you have a wonderful New Year 🎊
G'day Erin 👋🏻💖 It's so, SO hard to pick the favourites 🤣 and ranking them is so subjective too. But, yeah, that Zigzag Cowrie is a really good one, very darkly coloured as well!! Thanks for watching 🥰
G'day Darren 👋🏻🏖️ I have been very fortunate this year! I always think "if I go to the beach enough times, I'm sure to find something good!" and I certainly find enough to keep me going back for more! Thank you so much for watching 🥰
G'day Pam 👋🏻💖 I hope you're still doing well on your cross state holiday 😁 Thank you so much for watching the countdown (I really like this tradition I started last year), I know you've watched all of the videos, so I really cannot thank you enough. Have a fabulous trip to the next amazing destination 🥰
Loving the recap Maddie! So many that I forgot about. Still love that Neglected Angaria Shell! 😍 I’m looking forward too 2024 & what we will find!! Take Care & see you next year!! TTFN 👋🏼 ❤🎉
G'day Mimi 👋🏻💖 Hehe, I figured that a lot of these would have been forgotten...I do find so many shells, after all!! Ohoho, so the Neglected Angaria stood out this time! I must admit, it's a lovely shell 🐚 I almost left it as a special mention, but then I looked at my list with a more critical eye and decided that it really is an amazing shell after all 🤣 Thank you so much for watching 🥰 I still have one more shell recap this year, and then it's back to the beaches!!
G'day Brenda 👋🏻🏖️ Haha, oh gosh, I do get quite excited; and these ones were the best among thousands!! Thank you so much for taking the time out of the end of year madness to relive these finds with me 🥰
G'day Jan 👋🏻💖 Thank you, I would really like to continue this tradition of doing an end of year review of some of the best shells throughout the whole year 🤩 plus, it's a great way to fill in the holiday season when the beaches are packed with people here 🤣 Oh, I didn't realize that so many of these were new to you 😲 some of those old episodes are pretty good...but some are definitely not as great, too 😅 I like to think that my current ones have a better quality overall?? Not sure, but I try not to look back too much because I'm sure I'll cringe 🤣 As always Jan, thank you so much for watching 🥰
Happy New Year, Aussie Dirt Digger 👋🏻🪙🎉 Thank you for watching the yearly review; it was a lot of fun to put this together and remember again what I had found! I had actually forgotten a lot of what I'd found, but these ones really stood out to me 🤩 Thank you so, so much for watching 🥰
Hi Maddie I hope you had a lovely Christmas. I loved the angaria shell, so different. All the shell finds were really great though. Some of the ones you showed I don’t think I had seen before. ❤xxx
G’day Alison 👋🏻💖 I had a really lovely Christmas with family in the city…it was a very hot day, but I spent most of it in the air conditioning 😉 Did you have a nice Christmas too? Ohhhh, I’m glad that some of these shells were a surprise for you 🤩 I wondered if a lot of my regular viewers would have been too bored because they’d seen them all already 🥲 but a surprising amount of commenters have mentioned seeing some for the first time! That Angaria shell is a nice one; I really wish I saw them more often! The ones from the Philippines have huge spikes on them; they’re super cool 😎 Thanks for watching 🥰
G'day Reet 👋🏻💖 To be honest, I thought you'd seen all of my episodes too (some were worse than others though!) 🤣 I always appreciate seeing your comments on, my goodness, possibly hundreds(s) of my videos now?? Thank you so much for watching all of these 🤩❤️💖✨ but still, I'm glad that some of them still surprised you!! 🥰🥳🎉
G'day Hilary 👋🏻💖 Hehe, it's nice to hear that there were a few missed surprises here for you to see 😉 there were so many episodes this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if people skipped a tonne - I had enough that people could pick and choose what they wanted to watch!! Thank you so much for watching the countdown 🥰 you'll have to tell me on the weekend if part two is better or worse than part one 🤣
G'day Sheila 👋🏻💖 My yes, that Royal Bubble is just so beautiful 🤩 I forgot to show it when I did my shell cabinet tour, but it's definitely one of my favourites as well. Originally when I made this list, the Royal Bubble was in second place, but I decided to switch it to third at the last minute 😲 Anyhoo!! Thank you so much for watching this end of year shelling recap 🥰
@@kaylecotton5301 Oh yes, and the lightning and thunder storms too 😅 it's been crazy here for the last few days! I hope you and all of the kitties stay safe in the increasingly cold weather 🥶
Oh Maddie very nice video. My favorite is the Sputnik Sea Urchin and I have one but the pink is not as bright. Really wonderful seashells you chose. Thank you. XXOO. TRUDY
G'day Trudy 👋🏻💖 Thank you, I'm so glad that this little review was a nice one to end the year with...well, there is still one more review before the year ends 😅 Oh wow, so your favourite was actually the sputnik Sea urchin!! Hmmm, is yours grey? If so, it probably wasn't bleached, which is good because that really weaken the shell. Still, I really like it's coloured after being bleached, and I did add a layer of glue water to strengthen it again. As always Trudy, thank you so much for watching 🥰
G'day Susan 👋🏻💖 Thank you so much for reliving my favourite finds with me 🐚❤️ That Zigzag Cowrie is just fabulous; it's a very dark colour, the usual is a pale yellow! I hope you have a very Happy New Year too 🎉🥳🥰
G'day Mikhail 👋🏻🏖️ You might have seen some of these ones before, but thank you all the same ❤️ I hope you're having a good rest between your two Christmases and New Year 🕛🎊
@@SandCoffeeRocks Thank you very much Maddie😊! Anyway, I’ll probably calmly re-watch this episode of yours this holidays. Thank you again, by the way, I forgot to say that the New Year is also celebrated twice🤣🤣🤣🎅🎄. The first together with the whole world, and the second is called the Old New Year, but is celebrated on the night of January 14th😂. I know this all sounds crazy and implausible, but it's true😂😂😂🎅🎄🎄🎄
Hi, Iam Trudy a big fan and friend of Maddie. She has two videos weekly on Tuesday and Saturday. She finds more seashells than any aheller ever. Over the past year she found well over 300 plus different shells and then all the live ones which I like too. I am a collector but downsizing and Maddie is my heir of expensive, rare and common shells, seashell fossils etc. I have sent her 4 boxes this year. Also, she has many wonderful friends who send her shells. She has an awesome collection. She always posts common and science names. You will grow to love her like all of us her many friends. TRUDY IN PA, USA
G'day Sugi 👋🏻🐚 Goodness, thank you for coming across my channel ❤️ and thank you for checking out this end of year recap of some of my best finds!! That Royal Bubble is just lovely 😍 I almost ranked it higher! Oh yes, I always put the names on screen if I can; I feel like it helps a lot, and it helps me to learn the names too 😜 Thanks for watching 🥰
G'day Beach Walker 👋🏻🐚 Oh wow, you found the countdown!! I feel like I had a fabulous 2023, it was crazy for me to watch all of these find again. Thank you very much for checking them out too 🥰
G'day Judi 👋💖 Happy New Year to you as well!! I wonder what I'll find in the New Year...the weather has been alternating between hot and stormy, so it'll be miserable out there, but maybe some good shells have washed up!! Thanks for watching 🥰
10:10 Good Evening Maddie! Wow another day to go find more seashells before 2023 will be over soon, I can’t wait that we are going to be on 2024 soon on January 1st yay 😃! I’m so excited for 2024 😊. Anyway I would like to tell you about what is my favorite seashell from yesterday’s video, so my favorite seashell is this precious Humpback Cowrie known as the (Mauritia mauritiana, so for my research for this Humpback Cowrie was in 1758. This seashell has polkadots on top with this beautiful brown color for a design seashell 🐚. So that was my favorite shell from yesterday’s shell video. I really like your brand new shells that you collected yesterday 😮, so cool, also thank you for taking on another seashell exploring at the beach, wow there are so much seashells that you can find from Australia 🇦🇺. Anyway I hope you have a great Happy New Year’s. Julia
G’day Julia 👋🏻🐚 Oh yes, the new year starts very soon! I have been taking it easy since Christmas, I haven’t been to the beach in a little while now! This episode is a compilation of my favourite shell finds from January 2023 - June 2023… there was a lot of great shell in the first half of this year! I’ll do one for July to December soon, too! Wow, the Humpback Cowrie is a nice one, isn’t it! Yes, it was first described and published in 1758, though I’m sure the non-western world knew about this shell for a lot longer than that; it was a popular one among the old Indo-pacific and Hawaiian nations. Thank you so much Julia, I hope you have a happy new year too 🎉
Happy New Year, Ousmane 👋🏻🎉 Thank you again for watching the shelling countdown 🤩 The Zigzag Cowrie was just fabulous...I actually found one the year before too, but it was not a nice dark colour like this one!! I hope you're having a great start to 2024 🎉🎆
Hello from the mountains of Colorado, Maddie!! We're more than a mile high here and so very far from the beach!
I love your enthusiasm, your kindness, and your humble nature. You are truly an absolute joy to watch. I just got home from Southwest Florida and found the BIGGEST Alphabet Cone (King Kone, if you will) anyone has every seen!
I would love love love to shell with you in Australia someday!
~Jas
G'day Jas, Happy New Year 🎊🥳 Oh wow, hello to you in Colorado! You are quite a long way away from the ocean... must be beautiful up there, though! Thank you so much for your kind words, my goodness, you are wonderful. It sounds like you had a fabulous Christmas trip to SW Florida - and you had a lot of luck too!! There are heaps of beaches with shells in Australia too, you'll have to decide what kind of shells you'll want to find and make a list of places to see!! Thank you so, so much for watching 🥰
Looking forward to seeing you in the New Year❤❤❤
G'day Donna 👋🏻🐚 Oh boy, next year - I wonder if I can top this amazing year?!! Thank you for watching 🥰
Thank you for sharing Maddie, your enthusiasm never disappoints❤
G'day Denise 👋💖 Thank you so much for watching this recap 🤩 I was so excited to put together a list of my favourite shells like this; it's a fun way to end the year (and give me a break from the crowded Christmas beaches 😅) I hope you have a wonderful New Year 🎊
It's hard to pick a favorite from the favorites, but I love that zig zag cowrie.
G'day Erin 👋🏻💖 It's so, SO hard to pick the favourites 🤣 and ranking them is so subjective too. But, yeah, that Zigzag Cowrie is a really good one, very darkly coloured as well!! Thanks for watching 🥰
What an unbelievable collection, you have a great eye for shells..
G'day Darren 👋🏻🏖️ I have been very fortunate this year! I always think "if I go to the beach enough times, I'm sure to find something good!" and I certainly find enough to keep me going back for more! Thank you so much for watching 🥰
What a fantastic idea! 🎉 Loved the countdown. You have found so many beautiful shells! 🥰🥰🥰
G'day Pam 👋🏻💖 I hope you're still doing well on your cross state holiday 😁 Thank you so much for watching the countdown (I really like this tradition I started last year), I know you've watched all of the videos, so I really cannot thank you enough. Have a fabulous trip to the next amazing destination 🥰
Loving the recap Maddie! So many that I forgot about. Still love that Neglected Angaria Shell! 😍 I’m looking forward too 2024 & what we will find!! Take Care & see you next year!! TTFN 👋🏼 ❤🎉
G'day Mimi 👋🏻💖 Hehe, I figured that a lot of these would have been forgotten...I do find so many shells, after all!! Ohoho, so the Neglected Angaria stood out this time! I must admit, it's a lovely shell 🐚 I almost left it as a special mention, but then I looked at my list with a more critical eye and decided that it really is an amazing shell after all 🤣 Thank you so much for watching 🥰 I still have one more shell recap this year, and then it's back to the beaches!!
Thanks for sharing Maddie. Love the way you describe your finds and how excited you get. Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
G'day Brenda 👋🏻🏖️ Haha, oh gosh, I do get quite excited; and these ones were the best among thousands!! Thank you so much for taking the time out of the end of year madness to relive these finds with me 🥰
Oh my, what a fabulous video. So many great shells and most are firsts for me to see.
G'day Jan 👋🏻💖 Thank you, I would really like to continue this tradition of doing an end of year review of some of the best shells throughout the whole year 🤩 plus, it's a great way to fill in the holiday season when the beaches are packed with people here 🤣 Oh, I didn't realize that so many of these were new to you 😲 some of those old episodes are pretty good...but some are definitely not as great, too 😅 I like to think that my current ones have a better quality overall?? Not sure, but I try not to look back too much because I'm sure I'll cringe 🤣 As always Jan, thank you so much for watching 🥰
Hi Maddie
Happy New Year to you. It was so good to see those shells again.
It was a great idea to go over your greatest finds as a recap on the year.
Happy New Year, Aussie Dirt Digger 👋🏻🪙🎉 Thank you for watching the yearly review; it was a lot of fun to put this together and remember again what I had found! I had actually forgotten a lot of what I'd found, but these ones really stood out to me 🤩 Thank you so, so much for watching 🥰
Hi Maddie I hope you had a lovely Christmas. I loved the angaria shell, so different. All the shell finds were really great though. Some of the ones you showed I don’t think I had seen before.
❤xxx
G’day Alison 👋🏻💖 I had a really lovely Christmas with family in the city…it was a very hot day, but I spent most of it in the air conditioning 😉 Did you have a nice Christmas too? Ohhhh, I’m glad that some of these shells were a surprise for you 🤩 I wondered if a lot of my regular viewers would have been too bored because they’d seen them all already 🥲 but a surprising amount of commenters have mentioned seeing some for the first time! That Angaria shell is a nice one; I really wish I saw them more often! The ones from the Philippines have huge spikes on them; they’re super cool 😎 Thanks for watching 🥰
I thought I'd seen all your episodes but some of these moments seem new to me! Great to know how happy these moments made you! Beautiful finds!
G'day Reet 👋🏻💖 To be honest, I thought you'd seen all of my episodes too (some were worse than others though!) 🤣 I always appreciate seeing your comments on, my goodness, possibly hundreds(s) of my videos now?? Thank you so much for watching all of these 🤩❤️💖✨ but still, I'm glad that some of them still surprised you!! 🥰🥳🎉
@@SandCoffeeRocks each video is like a free vacation to Australia.
@@Reet64 Hahaha!! I'm glad I can that I can take you on a quick trip over here!
Very nice! I realized I may have missed a video or two. Need to backtrack to see that shelly goodness! Thx for sharing your adventures with us. ❤
G'day Hilary 👋🏻💖 Hehe, it's nice to hear that there were a few missed surprises here for you to see 😉 there were so many episodes this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if people skipped a tonne - I had enough that people could pick and choose what they wanted to watch!! Thank you so much for watching the countdown 🥰 you'll have to tell me on the weekend if part two is better or worse than part one 🤣
@@SandCoffeeRocks Deal!!
Morning Maddie, what a great video. I have to say my favorite is the Royal Bubble. ❤❤❤
G'day Sheila 👋🏻💖 My yes, that Royal Bubble is just so beautiful 🤩 I forgot to show it when I did my shell cabinet tour, but it's definitely one of my favourites as well. Originally when I made this list, the Royal Bubble was in second place, but I decided to switch it to third at the last minute 😲 Anyhoo!! Thank you so much for watching this end of year shelling recap 🥰
@@SandCoffeeRocks Love you and ninja. Plz stay safe with the heat♥️🐚🐚🐈🐈😽🌊🦀♥️
@@kaylecotton5301 Oh yes, and the lightning and thunder storms too 😅 it's been crazy here for the last few days! I hope you and all of the kitties stay safe in the increasingly cold weather 🥶
Oh Maddie very nice video. My favorite is the Sputnik Sea Urchin and I have one but the pink is not as bright. Really wonderful seashells you chose. Thank you. XXOO. TRUDY
G'day Trudy 👋🏻💖 Thank you, I'm so glad that this little review was a nice one to end the year with...well, there is still one more review before the year ends 😅 Oh wow, so your favourite was actually the sputnik Sea urchin!! Hmmm, is yours grey? If so, it probably wasn't bleached, which is good because that really weaken the shell. Still, I really like it's coloured after being bleached, and I did add a layer of glue water to strengthen it again. As always Trudy, thank you so much for watching 🥰
Seriously epic finds so far Maddie!! My favourite is the Zig Zag Cowrie!! Happy New Year!!!!
G'day Susan 👋🏻💖 Thank you so much for reliving my favourite finds with me 🐚❤️ That Zigzag Cowrie is just fabulous; it's a very dark colour, the usual is a pale yellow! I hope you have a very Happy New Year too 🎉🥳🥰
G'day Maddie😊👋 And I will watch this video calmly and leisurely so that I can take a good look at everything😊😊😊
G'day Mikhail 👋🏻🏖️ You might have seen some of these ones before, but thank you all the same ❤️ I hope you're having a good rest between your two Christmases and New Year 🕛🎊
@@SandCoffeeRocks Thank you very much Maddie😊! Anyway, I’ll probably calmly re-watch this episode of yours this holidays. Thank you again, by the way, I forgot to say that the New Year is also celebrated twice🤣🤣🤣🎅🎄. The first together with the whole world, and the second is called the Old New Year, but is celebrated on the night of January 14th😂. I know this all sounds crazy and implausible, but it's true😂😂😂🎅🎄🎄🎄
So glad I came across your channel. Love that Royal bubble. Thank you for having the names of the shells on the screen 🌷
Hi, Iam Trudy a big fan and friend of Maddie. She has two videos weekly on Tuesday and Saturday. She finds more seashells than any aheller ever. Over the past year she found well over 300 plus different shells and then all the live ones which I like too. I am a collector but downsizing and Maddie is my heir of expensive, rare and common shells, seashell fossils etc. I have sent her 4 boxes this year. Also, she has many wonderful friends who send her shells. She has an awesome collection. She always posts common and science names. You will grow to love her like all of us her many friends. TRUDY IN PA, USA
PS Maddie lives in Australia. Trudy
G'day Sugi 👋🏻🐚 Goodness, thank you for coming across my channel ❤️ and thank you for checking out this end of year recap of some of my best finds!! That Royal Bubble is just lovely 😍 I almost ranked it higher! Oh yes, I always put the names on screen if I can; I feel like it helps a lot, and it helps me to learn the names too 😜 Thanks for watching 🥰
Thank you Maddie ❤️ I'm really looking forward to your walks on the beach. Love and light from Port Elizabeth, South Africa
@@suginaicker8518 Ah, I knew I remembered your name from before 😲 yes, you also have amazing shells in South Africa 🌍🐚❤️
Stunners! ❤
G'day Beach Walker 👋🏻🐚 Oh wow, you found the countdown!! I feel like I had a fabulous 2023, it was crazy for me to watch all of these find again. Thank you very much for checking them out too 🥰
Happy New Year Maddie Can’t Wait For The New Year Shelling Videos 🎉🎉🎉❤
G'day Judi 👋💖 Happy New Year to you as well!! I wonder what I'll find in the New Year...the weather has been alternating between hot and stormy, so it'll be miserable out there, but maybe some good shells have washed up!! Thanks for watching 🥰
Beautiful video, Maddie .
G'day Nikoleta 👋🏻💖 Thank you so much, I had a lot of fun putting this together ☺️ Thanks for watching 🥰
@SandCoffeeRocks You're welcome, Maddie 🫠. Have a nice, beautiful day 😊.
10:10 Good Evening Maddie! Wow another day to go find more seashells before 2023 will be over soon, I can’t wait that we are going to be on 2024 soon on January 1st yay 😃! I’m so excited for 2024 😊. Anyway I would like to tell you about what is my favorite seashell from yesterday’s video, so my favorite seashell is this precious Humpback Cowrie known as the (Mauritia mauritiana, so for my research for this Humpback Cowrie was in 1758. This seashell has polkadots on top with this beautiful brown color for a design seashell 🐚. So that was my favorite shell from yesterday’s shell video. I really like your brand new shells that you collected yesterday 😮, so cool, also thank you for taking on another seashell exploring at the beach, wow there are so much seashells that you can find from Australia 🇦🇺. Anyway I hope you have a great Happy New Year’s. Julia
G’day Julia 👋🏻🐚 Oh yes, the new year starts very soon! I have been taking it easy since Christmas, I haven’t been to the beach in a little while now! This episode is a compilation of my favourite shell finds from January 2023 - June 2023… there was a lot of great shell in the first half of this year! I’ll do one for July to December soon, too! Wow, the Humpback Cowrie is a nice one, isn’t it! Yes, it was first described and published in 1758, though I’m sure the non-western world knew about this shell for a lot longer than that; it was a popular one among the old Indo-pacific and Hawaiian nations. Thank you so much Julia, I hope you have a happy new year too 🎉
@@SandCoffeeRocks I will and you’re most welcome. 🤗
HI, ZIGZAGING COWRIS SO MY PREFERENCE PATIENCE IS CROCODILE COWRIS BUT IT'S WAS SO AMAZING THE BOSS...!!! I WISH YOU HAPPY NEW YORK CITY...!!! 2024.
Happy New Year, Ousmane 👋🏻🎉 Thank you again for watching the shelling countdown 🤩 The Zigzag Cowrie was just fabulous...I actually found one the year before too, but it was not a nice dark colour like this one!! I hope you're having a great start to 2024 🎉🎆
NICE I UP SOOO AS GREATEST 2024..!!! @@SandCoffeeRocks