Beach day SHELLING a MOTHERLOAD of SEASHELLS/FOSSILS on HOLDEN BEACH NC
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- Holden Beach NC has recently had its beach renourished and the shell finds and fossils here are amazing. Listen to the waves crashing as we show you and identify our finds. #Shelling #Beachwalk #FossilHunt
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Learn how, when and where to look for seashells & train your eyes how to find/spot/discover sea shells/shark teeth/fossils in the sand along tide wrack lines. Common beach treasures found beachcombing, sea shelling & exploring along the Lowcountry Ace Basin Beaufort, South Carolina coastline include whelk (knobbed/knobby, channeled, kiener, pear), lettered olive (SC state shell), shark eye moon snails, angel wing shells, clams (Quahog, Venus, jackknife, razor, imperial), blue mussels, lucines, murex (giant eastern, lace, apple), sea urchin, sand dollars, seastar/starfish, tulip (banded & true) auger, baby's ear, coral frags, jingle, slipper, drill, periwinkle, egg casings, horseshoe crab shells, sea sponges & seawhips. Our favorite rare beach finds include Indian artifacts, vertebrae, giant tun shell, mermaid purse, fossil shells & antique bottles! Along our virtual beach walks, we encounter living sea creatures, including hermit crabs in the tide pools. We have a huge seashell collection. We give away a lot of beach treasures via channel giveaways & to our Patreon Patrons as our appreciation!
Crabbing tips & tricks: how to/what to use to bait & catch blue crab with crab pots/traps or baskets; how to measure blue crab/stone crab claws; how to clean/cook crabs; how to determine sex/maturity of blue crabs; regulations & requirements for crabbing in SC.
Inshore & offshore/deep sea fishing adventures: learn how to fish Carolina rigs using mud minnows, shrimp, squid or fiddler crabs catching spottail bass (bull redfish/red drum), spotted sea trout, sheepshead, flounder (gigging too), triggerfish, snapper, grouper, mackeral, bluefish, black drum, black sea bass, whiting, cobia, shark & more!
Shrimp trawling: how to shrimp dragging a 25 ft trawl net with our small 17 ft boat; checking our nets; showing/sorting our catch; throwing back bycatch (squid, bait fish, skates/rays). Watch as dolphin & shorebirds (gulls, terns, pelicans) follow shrimp boats to catch a meal.
Thank you for joining along for the virtual adventure!
So many shells! Exciting! So neat to see the fossilized sea biscuits. Never seen one. Heard there is going to be dredging at Kill Devil Hills. 😊❤️
Thanks for the info and watching!
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I dream of sitting in a shell pile like like that one day. ❤️🙏🏻. As always, thank you for taking us along.
Those kind of shell piles are soo fun! We were like kids in a candy store for sure! 😍🤩😁🤗 & I love to hear the waves crashing over those piles! 🎶👂🌊🐚 Thanks so much for coming along!
Wow! You don't even see that many biscuits at Bob Evans! What was lacking in the surf fishing was made up for in the shelling! Great finds, you two!
Holden Beach has a huge quantity of Shells washed up on it at this time and we wanted to share what's there with all the Shellers that are watching. I'm yet to catch my first fish in NC but that's OK. Our time spent on Holden Beach was priceless. Happy shelling!
LOL! At Holden Beach "not" picking up shells. Its a shell haven. well, olive haven
Have fun! Hope you find some beauties while "not" picking up shells! 😉🌊👣🐚
I love your relationship with each other. Joking around, going to the beach together. And just having fun. I wish I had that. Maybe some day. Love your channel. ❤️
We're lucky to have one another for sure.
Do u ever find beach glass when ur shelling
We don't find beach glass very often. Wish we did.
What makes some of the shells turn black?
We think some of the shells turn black in our area from the pluff mud.
* THANKS for telling us what brings up the Fossils on the Beach? ~ I didn't expect fossils on the ocean beach.. I see them inland more . . I didn't know there are Devonian Era layer of shells & Death plate.. Love that kind of Information..
Thanks for joining us for the beach walk! 💙 🐚🌊👣 Such a fun treasure hunt!
First thing besides your being on a deserted beach. Stephanie you need a long sleeved t-shirt with a hoodie. Your arms are already pretty sun burned from previous days! Shell collecting on that beach looks so much fun! I envy you!
The beach definitely wasn't a deserted beach. We just had plenty of room between us and others. Anyone can go to Holden Beach and check out what's there. It was awesome!
So spoiled with all the videos from y'all this week. Loving it! Treasure hunting is addictive. I don't blame you Steph! I'd be all over those shell piles too. Just wonderful spending time with y'all. Thanks for generously taking us along. Rachelle, Australia 🦘
LOL! So glad you're enjoying. I'm trying to keep the videos coming. Thanks for watching in Australia, Rachelle!
I can spend hours in there earn lots of cool, looking shelves. I’m very awesome ones that we don’t have. What is the rarest one
Glad you enjoyed.
LIONS PAWS AND JEWEL BOX AND SCALLOPS OH MY!! Your Holden Beach trip has been awesome!!! I have so enjoyed watching you shell. Oliver is a gem of a hubby. If he isn't catching fish, he is right there with you shelling. Love listening to the bantor between you two. I had no idea you could find the spiny jewel boxes on NC coast. Only found those in Florida. Baby ears and augers are some of my favorite at Edisto. This has been truly exciting for me. I could feel the sand between my toes just watching. Wish I was there. Will be in Edisto may 12th. Can't wait to breath that puff mud air!!!!
This beach renourishment has definitely caused tons of different finds on Holden Beach that are not common there. It's an awesome place to check out. Hope you enjoy your trip to Edisto! Happy shelling!
Have ya'll ever found Sea Biscuits in South Carolina?
No we have not.
You found some amazing shells today. But then again I enjoyed all of them, that you find.
Thank you! We appreciate you coming along for another beach adventure! 💙🐚👣🌊
Oliver cracks me up he likes to act like your the only one with a shell addiction but hes got it almost as bad as you great video as always thank you
Yes, he LOVES to see what treasures await us! He likes to be on the move so beachcombing is a great activity to keep him occupied! 💙🌊🐚😂 #hesnotfoolinganyone
I’m so jealous! I love Baby’s Ears and in all my time shelling Sanibel and even Cayo Costa I’ve only ever found ONE! You’re picking them up left and right. I love the sea biscuits too. I have tons of sand dollars but those little biscuits are too cute. Guess I’ll have to get to Holden Beach one of these days! Thanks for another great video. 🥰
Yes! It is worth the trip! We had SO much fun collecting these prehistoric treasures! Do it! You won't regret it! 🙏💙🌊🐚👣
We have just bought a house in North Myrtle Beach. I am going thru chemo, so I don't have very much sleep. I watched you until
4am Monday night and until 5 am on Tuesday night. I so enjoy watching you guys as I would be doing the same if my body would allow. Hopefully I can walk the beach soon as I had a ankle replacement last February and my right leg is fused at the knee and will not bend and is 3 inches shorter than my left. I am so enjoying learning the names of shells and get so excited when I see the what beauty god had created. I hope I am sending a message under the correct video as I was watching on my TV and could not respond at the time. Look forward to watching y'all as Islam like cousins. I am from GA and my hubby of 26 years is from NC. He has been retired for 13 months now. And we will be permanently there as soon as we sell 2 houses here in GA. I LOVe your help as I learn how to go "SHELLING. Thanks again. Denise and Larry Stanford.
Thanks so much for watching our videos! Hope you both end up loving your new home and location. Prayers for healing!
So glad to see you find that lions paw! It's on my bucket list for sure. As well as all the sea biscuits. I do love your beach dress Stephanie, so fun!
Thank you! I was so excited to find one! & I found another one just a tad bit bigger, same black color later in the day. So now my collection is up to 2! 😃 They are awesome! I found a couple broken pieces before that so I was hopeful! Thanks for coming along for the adventure! 💙🌊👣🐚
I LOVE finding the baby whelks!
So cute! 🐚🥰
Since I can't get to the beach you bring it to me! Thank you!!
Awesome! Thanks for coming along with us! 💙🐚🌊👣
Love all those Baby’s ears you are finding! If I were there with you, I would definitely pick up as many of those Olive Shells as possible. Thank you for taking us all along with you! Loving every minute of it! Ooooh, Jingles!!
Me too! It's a good thing I don't live there! 🤣 I would never show up for work! 😉🤣
Does the Sea Biscuit have the same skeleton as the flat sane dollar?
Basically but just shaped differently, if that makes sense. The exterior of a sea biscuit and/or sand dollar is their skeleton, so they are shaped the same as their respective living creature. They both range in diameter size from teeny tiny, smaller than a dime to bigger than the length of your hand dependingon species & age. Their height is where they differ though. Whereas a sand dollar is only going to be a cm or 1/2 inch or so thick even for the largest ones, a sea biscuit would be 2-3 inches thick for average sized ones. Sand dollars are fairly common in many oceans & climates but sea biscuits only are native to very tropcial climates (they are not native to NC in todays age but obviously were at some point in the history of this Earth). They are very similar as far as texture & fragility. The skeleton (aka test) of both sand dollar & sea biscuit marine animals is an exoskeleton, meaning the part you see when they are bleached out white & found on the beach, that is their actual skeleton. It is an outer shell of their body protecting all the soft inner matter of the animal. Their exoskeletons (both sand dollars & sea biscuits) when alive will be a greenish/purplish/brownish color and are covered with a layer of tiny spines (almost like super short stiff hairs) that help them move along the ocean floor, burrow under the sand, trap food, move food towards their mouths, etc. Once they are deceased, all those spines fall off as well as the interior soft matter of the animal decays, leaving just the test. They will loose their natural coloration the longer they have been deceased. Sand fills into all their many hundreds of orifices once they are deceased as they are dragged along the ocean floor with the current. The entire "flower"/seastar design on the top are teeny teeny tiny orifices as well as their mouth & anus located underneath (both of those are noticeable sized orifices). So if you find a white sand dollar washed up on the beach, once it dries out you'll be able to shake a lot of sand out it! That's why when you see these broken sea biscuit fossils, they are filled in completely instead of being hollow. So the ones we are finding in this video are prehistoric fossils - sand filled sea biscuits! 💙🦖🐚🤯
Sorry for the book, but I figured others may have the same questions. & I talk A LOT, so there ya go 😵💫 ... more info than you ever needed to know! 😂🤣☠️. Thanks for coming along for the beach walk! 💙🌊👣🐚
This was so informative!!!
@@SaltyReflections ,
Thank you for explaining on depth the differences between flat sand dollars and the sea biscuit.
I found a broken sea biscuit in my collection and could see the difference in the skeletal structure. When you have a broken flat sand dollar the little bones resemble little angels, not the same with the sea biscuit.
@@maybee... Awesome! What area do you collect your sea biscuits?
@@SaltyReflections ,
My daughter and I collect a variety of seashells, my dad was a commercial fisherman and we would get damaged sand dollars off the deck of his boat, that is how we learned about the skeletal structure of the flat ones. I have never seen the biscuit type sand dollars on the Oregon Coast. We bought some at a shop and one unfortunately had gotten broken so we looked at it, the skeletal structure was very different from the flat ones. Funny this happened in the time frame that I had watched your video.
This is a great way to shelling pleas stop the ads and I mean it
Thanks for watching!
I was dying when she didn’t pick up the shark teeth💀
We miss things all the time for sure, but if I had seen them, I would have picked them up. We did find a good many there.
Augers will make fantastic earrings
They would!
You have a fortune in earring material!
Yeah, you're right! We have a friend who makes beautiful jewelry from the seashells she finds down in Florida.
So relaxing, I just love the sound the shells make as the water rushes Over them. God Bless!
Glad you enjoyed our video. God bless!
I feel for your husband. When the fish aren’t biting he’s chomping at the bit to be shelling. Sometimes on our crowded beach I’ll wander off. I tell the person near me if my rod bends they can reel it in. Great video
Thanks for the comment and watching! It doesn't matter who's catching the fish. It's fun watching others reeling em in too.
we just got back from Holden last week and we found fossilized sea biscuits too! been going there al my life and never seen anything like those. Beautiful and SO.MANY.SHARK.TEETH!!
Awesome fun! 🥰🐚🦈🦷
Ya'll r too funny!😂 I'd say that was a pretty good wrack line to investigate. When it's like that you get sensory overload. Really weird seeing a black spiny jewelbox. Another day and I don't see anyone else. Hard to believe. You must have come home with a hundred baby's ears!😊 My goodness! Now that's a shell pile (23 min)! Looked like the shells just kept washing in to there. What fun! And you always enjoy a good meal better when you've spent the day outside! Thanks, guys!
Thanks, Ginger, for joining us on the beach once again! YES! We don't often see those big shell piles in our area, so I had to give all of our Saltaholics a feeling of how fun that is! I just love to hear the sound of the water washing thru those piles! 🎶🐚🌊💙 We were not near any of the public parking beach accesses & it was off-season for them. I think that's why the beach was pretty empty in the area we were in. Almost none of the houses around the one where we stayed were occupied at that time. & although there are beach access walkways every block or so, there is no parking (some had bicycle parking) at those accesses, so only used by the visitors within walking distance. I bet in the summer when every house on the island is occupied, the beach is probably packed! We got so lucky with the timing! Oh yeah, a day out in the glorious sunshine will build up your appetite! 😋
I wouldn't mind one of the biscuits around 20:15 in my next collection! Or the petite one at 20:43. Now I know it would be impossible to find that exact shell, but just an idea of what I'd like. Plus some shark eyes, olives, augers, scallops, etc. And if you have a couple of rough old shells the cat could roll around, maybe that would keep Cleocatra away from the good stuff! LOL Thanks! And I keep seeing flashes of bright blue. I don't know if it is an artifact of the recording, or what. But you don't seem to pick them up. Just curious! Always a fun ride to the beach with you guys! Hugs from Virginia!
Hey! Shoot us an email, you may still have it, but just in case you do not, saltyreflectionsbsc@gmail.com. We can get you some of these Holden Beach treasures. 🥰🤗 We welcome all support for our little channel! Thank you! Someone else mentioned the blue shells too, I think it was the ark shells that had turned a bluish color that you're seeing flashes of, there were oodles of them. I am thinking they may have been buried in dark sediment before they were dredged up for the beach renourishment, similar to how we find shells in our area that have that color from being submerged in our black mud for years & then beach erosion uncovers them. Looking back, I should have picked up some (cause y'know I need more seashells 🤦🏼♀️🤣), I don't normally collect arks because they are very common to us but these blue ones were different. 🤔 I'm going to tell Oliver we should go back to get more shells! 😁🤗
Is that camera viewing using a wide angle lens…? It’s giving a weird sensation watching it almost like a motion sickness thing…
It’s my first time watching your channel, I’m usually a SWF Beachlife follower. Maybe show the shells your picking up a lil more {longer} so we can see the type n look… cheers from west Australia …Lisa
Welcome! Thanks for watching in Australia! Appreciate the suggestions. Yes, we're using a camera with a wide view. Sorry you didn't like the content we shared.
I love the big ones but I think the tiny ones are my favorite BC I would make jewelry with them. I would pick them up also, I couldn't stop myself either. The way I see shelling is you could be doing something worse. For the people that think these videos are fake don't be silly, think before you type! Great fishing finds.
Shelling is so addictive. 😍 Yes I agree, there are so much worse things than shelling! Thanks for coming along with us! 💙🌊👣🐚
I just started watching your shelling videos. Love them! Would like to ask a couple of questions. What are those gray round things with a star on top and flat bottom? Why do you collect so many? What do you do with them? If I lived close to a beach I would be out there everyday shelling!
Welcome aboard! We are glad you are enjoying hanging out on the beach with us! They are sea biscuit fossils. We collected enough to add a jar of these to our collection & enough also to be able to share plenty with our Saltaholics (our TH-cam family). We did multiple giveaways of these awesome fossils & other shells collected there after we visited this area. The fossils are rare (not found anywhere else) even though there were tons of them washed up on this particular beach at that time.
ok thank you for explaining about the sea biscut thats awesome..........learned alot ................enjoyed your video always relaxes me........from a fan in red oak tx...........until next video...............oh so what do you do with the sea biscuts...????????????
Thanks for joining us for the adventure in Tx! We just admire their beauty. I am probably going to clean some & leave some natural. & we plan to give many of them away. 😀🙏
I still think you have room in that cart for a little hand rake or a garden shovel. Would it come in handy to scrape through that shell pile and see what’s underneath. Thanks for taking us on your adventure. So interesting to find fossilized sea biscuits and such big numbers. That sure doesn’t happen every day
Yes, it'd be a great idea for beachcombers to take a shovel or rack as long as everyone covers the holes they dig. Thanks for the comment and watching!
Was wondering if on east side or west side
I'm not sure really what side it would be considered. We were between the water tower (near the entrance onto the island) & the pier ... hope that helps. Happy Shelling!
@@SaltyReflections Thank you.
For me the ocean is a large jewelry store. Would rather go collect jewelry from a beach then a jewelry store! I see all the olives. They usually wash up unbroken! Besides jewelry found on the beach is free! I am so envious of you both!
Thank you!
Im Maryland those shark eye shells as you call them are called Moon snails here along the famous Calvert Cliffs.
Shark eye shells are a type of moon snail. They are very similar to y'all's northern moon snails, which is another type of moon snail. The back area of the shell is just slightly different between the two. Thanks for joining us for a beach walk! 💙🌊👣🐚
I absolutely love Holden Beach... Going for my anniversary May 3-6 would love to meet yall
Holden Beach is beautiful! We hope you guys have a great time and many more anniversaries to celebrate together. We've only visited Holden the times we shared videos with you guys from our trips there. The enormous amount of shells that were getting washed up lead us to Holden.
This is the first ive seen of sea biscuits,on your video..Havent found any myself,so quite cool to see this video with so many,,i dont have any and they are pretty cool looking.
Yes ma'am! The sea biscuit fossils are so cool❣️🐚🦖😎 Thanks for shelling with us! 🐚👣🌊
I am making a table top with my shells I got on the Oregon coast. Not as neat a your shells, my granddaughter was in Florida last year picked me up a sack full. We are going to use some of them to.
Sounds like a fun project. Enjoy!
I would be going crazy!! Limpets and olives and shark eyes, oh my!!!!
I know! 🤩🐚
Seeing the broken sea biscuits that have a circle missing from them, I find it interesting those edges are worn smooth? I also collect shells that have those tiny drill holes in them. Along Lake Michigan, in Michigan, there are small smooth stones that have tiny holes in them also. I like to string them together!
We find stones like that as well. Hag stones is what I have learned they are called. So these are hag sea biscuits, I guess! 😉 I love the idea of stringing them together! 💡🤩 Makes me wish I would have collected more! 🤣 Would make a gorgeous Christmas Garland! 😁
It's me again! In those large shell piles I used to kneel down and put my reading glasses on so I could see the tiny shells. Besides it would give me a little rest from walking!
The shell piles are AWESOME! That's why I told Oliver I needed to take y'all! Such a fun shelling experience! 😁🤩😍
Loving those sea biscuits. I love love the augurs, that's my favorite shape for Christmas tree ornaments. What great shelling! Thanks for bringing me along.
Thanks for joining us! 💙🌊🐚
Wow! Nice finds! If there is a baby's ear around, you will find it. Love the videos!
You're right, Stephanie loves them baby's ear. Thanks for watching.
How could someone think your videos are fake, what do they think you do drop tons of shells on the beach and then make a video? 🤣🤣🤣
You never know what others are thinking. 🤔 🤣😂 We're just saying what we're thinking in the videos. Sometimes it's hard coming up with things to say. We're getting better at it.😎 Thanks for the comment and watching!
Hey you all!
Stephanie, you and Oliver are perfect for each other! You are very sweet people!❤️🏖🐚
Thank you so much!
I love how you don’t add music to your shelling videos just conversation and the ocean perfect
Thank you for coming along with us! 🌊 👣🐚
Lovely channel so relaxing to watch the lovely sunny beaches. What a life you are blessed ❤ love your accent too
Thanks so much! 😊
Nice shells you found! Does this beach normally have a lot of shells or is it just because of dredging?
According to a local sheller most of these Shells are from the dredging.
North Carolina beaches don’t have a lot of Angel Wings like you all do in South Carolina.
You're right.
Wonderful shelling…the sea biscuits and the babies ears and the limpets..would love to be there
It was SO fun! Thanks for coming along for the adventure! 💙 🌊🐚👣
Anther wonderful post from Holden Beach! Totally awesome!
Thanks!
I missed a bunch of seabisquets as you were looking.
They were everywhere! It was amazing how many were washed up! 😵💫😲
Love all the beautiful finds and the way your husband ask what are you going to do with all these shells and then says oooh look at this one and you pick it up and keep it
LOL!
I really enjoyed kicking back and watching this video too. I'm so tempted to make the 6 hour drive down to Holden (very early), shell for a few hours, then home. Probably not practical though. Was hoping you'd find some of those beautiful shark teeth I've seen pics of that others found. Loved Myrtle for that and found my first steinkerns there last year. Will look for the rest of your Holden videos, definitely addicting! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed the virtual beach trip! 💭🌊👣😎 It was such a fun place to shell! We did find a few sharks teeth (I think about 30), we weren't filming at the time though, so it didn't make it into the video. I would love to go back & look for more! 🥰
@@SaltyReflections glad you got some!!!
I love how you praise the Lord!
Looks like a shovel in a flat box would help you spread and see
That's a good idea.
You all are making me jealous. Congrats on all the finds. Thanks for taking is along.
We're on the look out for the hot pots. Holden Beach was loaded with great finds.
Wait....I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I have to ask: Are the sea biscuits fossils of puffy sand dollars? or are they the shells of puffy sand dollars?
Sea biscuits are an animal themselves. They are in the same scientific family/classification as the sand dollar, as well as sea urchins & seastars. They are all types of sea urchins (aka echinoids or echinoderms). Not to be confused with the animal that is commonly called a "sea urchin." Although in some parts of the world, what we call a sand dollar, they call a sea biscuit, so I'm not sure what they call a sea biscuit! 🤔🤯😂 It's kinda confusing, so now that's probably as clear as mud for ya! The ones we found are fossils of these creatures that once were live animals thousands to millions of years ago. The skeleton (aka test) of the shell hardened along with the surrounding sediment to form basically a rock now of the once living marine animal. How cool!? 💙🌊🐚
@@SaltyReflections That really is cool! Fossils just lying all over the beach!
@@heycarrieann 🤩
Have ya'll been to hatteras island beaches? Me and my daughter found our first perfect scotch bonnet, that was a trip to Portsmouth island though. I wish we lived closer to the beach, like the shell hunting videos!
Thanks for the info. We haven't been there.
You should put it on your bucket list, I think during the off season would be better shell hunting but we always find shells on summer vacation in Buxton/Frisco. Ocracoke is a ferry ride away also. Enjoy y'alls shell hunting videos!
Wow, you're finding awesome shells, wish I was there.
Thanks for joining us virtually for a while at least! 💙🌊🐚👣
while watching this, at the end where you and your hubby are going thru all those piles of shells,im thinking to myself if i was there id want a box of freezer bags, and a empty back pack just for this and id shovel in piles of little shells into the ziplock bags and go thru those after i got home,lol. so id have me a little wagon like how u all start out, and a couple of back packs ,and alot of ziplock bags, i get so excited watching your videos,lol
🤣 You sound like you may be a shell hoarder! LOL! You are in the right place! ✅️ 😁🙋🏼♀️
@@SaltyReflections 🤣🤣
Y'all have a good day! Off to work I go! Thank you and enjoyed.
Hope you have a stress free day at work. Keep them fellas straight. Hope to see you guys soon! The fishing here is on fire!
I remember a book from my childhood called The Lions Paw.
Sweet! I'll have to look it up. Thanks for joining us for a beach trip! ⛱️ 💙🌊🐚
Love limpets but are impossible to find. I have never seen a sea biscuit in person
We found many limpets in Holden Beach, I was surprised! 😯 I had not seen them in many of the posts I had seen leading up to our trip! Fun fun! Thanks for joining us!
I have enjoyed watching your videos at Holden Beach.
Thanks for watching! Awesome you're enjoying our videos.
I can’t take my eyes off those olives!!! Big and ✨
There were more olives than I had ever seen at any one place. CRAZY! Some really tiny ones too!
Keep moving Oliver!! She knows where she’s going!!
Yes! Gotta get to them shells! 😀
WOW!! You guys had the beach all to yourselves!!
Yes ma'am. We were there just before peak season, most of the rental places near us were vacant. So there was plenty to find right near the beach access closest to us. Thanks for shelling with us! 🌊🐚
All those turkey wings are to die for…❤️
& there was so, so many! 🫨
Decisions, decisions! I love shelling and I love fishing! Fish usually bite better during tide changes.
Those big drill holes that look countersunk are made by the shark eyes and moon snails. Do you ever go to the Sanibel area in the Gulf? Kice Island is on my bucket list!
We have visited Sanibel for an afternoon last year. It was awesome as well! Tons of scallops! We have a trip planned with about 20 family members coming soon & I can't wait! We have never visited Kice but we sure hope to! We hope you get to go soon too! Life is short & we are not promised tomorrow, book your trip ASAP! 😉🙏
Man I love these shells! I would loose my mind. I’m used to the Oregon coast where the shells are scarcer. One thing about the Oregon coast. You don’t turn your back on the ocean. Keep one eye pealed at all times for big “sneaker” waves 🌊!
We've never heard of sneaker waves. Glad we don't have the here. Thanks for watching!
@@SaltyReflections There is bigger surf in Oregon. And every so off there is an unexpectedly extra big wave that can take you out. You gotta be on the watch for them.
@@laraemitchell9064 Oh ok gotcha! Like sneaking up on ya!
Are y'all selling any of your Sea Biscuits?
We haven't listed any as of yet on our eBay shell store but you can email us at SaltyReflectionsBSC@gmail.com if you're interested.
Wonder where all the people.are. you guys are the only ones out there.
We kinda thought the same thing. We were expecting more people. Most of the rental homes around we noticed were vacant. I bet it's busy in the summer time though. Also, we were not near any public parking areas, only beach accesses for walking traffic from the nearby homes, so that probably was to account for as well. Thanks for taking a beach walk with us! 💙🐚👣🌊
Not picking up shells? A likely story.
LOL! Maybe a few.
Like you say, it's a personal preference...I love Olive's...would never pass up an Olive, whatever color or size!
You NEED to visit Holden Beach, NC then! It has more olives than I have ever seen! It was SO much FUN! Life's short! Go ASAP! Thanks for joining us! 💙🌊🐚👣
@@SaltyReflections I wish! Maybe a vacation trip...from Texas. One of my sons and his 3 boys used to regularly charter a boat and go fishing somewhere off the Keys...and brought me some of their catch...but it's been a couple of years now since they last went. I'd be in hog heaven just roaming the beaches searching for sea shells !!!
Enjoy all your videos !!!
@@23Josilee Yes it would be a fun vacation & you would be like I was, like a kid in a candy store! 🤩🤗
You need to get some of those Turkey wings they are so pretty
We should have collected more. I collected a few to send to our patrons in their patron shell mail boxes but I didn't really collect any for me! 🤦🏼♀️ They are cool & we don't find them in our area of SC often. Thanks for joining us for the adventure! 💙 🌊🐚👣
Wow! That's my favorite hobby!
So fun! Thanks for joining us! 💙🌊🐚👣
You guys are to funny. I'm reminded of my husband and I . Another enjoyable video. Thank you for sharing.
LOL! We are who we are and there's a ton of people watching. We can only hope they're liking us. We're going to try to keep the videos coming. Thanks for watching! You two need to get out and do some beaching.
Land locked here in Idaho. However we fish and look for pretty rocks. Been married 41 years.
@@robertabessey7990 That's awesome. Congratulations! Best friends I'm sure. We wouldn't know anything about rocks but I bet it's a fun hobby too.
I have never seen a sea biscuit they are beautiful ❤️
Aren't they awesome!? 🤩 Thanks for taking a beach walk with us! 🌊👣🐚
2 years later....they are hard to find
Thank you for the update! We have been wondering how it was now.
leave shells for hermit crabs
No, not the ones we want to keep. There's plenty to go around.
Do you like the blue shells? They are beautiful
The blue ark shells are beautiful! 💙🐚 & ... I didn't pick up but just a couple! 🤦🏼♀️😵💫🤷🏼♀️ Don't know what I was thinking! The ark shells are not ones that I normally collect other than to send as extra little gifts with shell purchases or giveaways. They are pretty common in our area but that blue is a special color. I should have collected more ... cause y'know I need more shells! 😂
I would grab all of them olives 🫒
You could have filled a pickup truck with them! 😄 They were literally EVERYWHERE! 🤗
What do you do with all your shell you collect?
🤦🏼♀️ I don't do much with our collection other than typical glass jars (& antique bottles we have found) for display. I can be crafty at times but I spend most of my spare time trying to find more! 🤣🙆🏼♀️🤗 & giving them away! 😂 Thanks for coming along for the adventure! 👣🐚🌊
Years ago I had the opportunity to go on underwater scooters, they gave me a very large Sea Biscuit to hold. Very cool
AWESOME!! They are such neat sea creatures! We have never seen a live one in person as they are not native to our area. We have sand dollars galore but no sea biscuits. What a cool experience!? What part of the world were you in, if you dont mind me asking? I bet the underwater scooters were a lot of fun! I would love to do that one day! 💙🤗
@@SaltyReflections Hawaii
@@karenstover1965 Awesome! 🌴🌊🌺
When you asked Oliver if that was an oyster shell and he said no, what was that though? I found one too and thought it was a unique find.
We saw a lot of those actually. I am intrigued to know what they are. It is definitely fossilized. It almost looks like it is sheared off its so smooth in sections but I think it may be the cast (the fossilized sediment from the inside) of some type of shell. They were pretty cool. I should have kept a couple. 🤦🏼♀️🤔 Y'know I need a few more shells! 🤣
I'll try and do some research!
@@lisakadletz3327 I wish I would have taken a few good pictures of them, I could have posted it in some fossil groups & inquired. I didn't think about it then. 🤦🏼♀️
so you find sharks teeth in NC?
Yes ma'am. We found a good many sharks teeth on Holden Beach, NC in a short amount of time looking for them. 🖤🦈🦷
Oliver wants to see what shells there are too.
Yes, for sure. The beach finds we find have become so interesting.😎
I would pick up olives all day long
We could've filled a 5 gallon bucket with Olives. We've never seen so many.
collect all the seabisckets
We've collected a few. We can't haul them all.
That looks like heaven on earth!!
It was so much fun! Thanks for coming along for the adventure!
That was incredible!
Awesome! Thank you!
i want those seabiscuts
I know right! They are pretty dang cool! 😍
Bless you for sharing!!
We appreciate you taking the time to watch & comment too! 🥰
Sea biscuits are so fabulous ❤
They are! 🤩 Thanks for joining us!
Great video guys.
Thanks!!