If I could attach my pics I'd show you all the shells and sponges collected. And after having followed you for a bit, finding out some things we've found on our vacations have been great finds!!! I have been buying lidded glass jars for the past year and half so I can display them. Our daughter fusses that she thinks we have collected plenty. Finding a seahorse was the absolute best though sad. At least he is loved in this afterlife by being put in a display cabinet.
I have learned so much from you. Our daughter and family have been at Cocoa Beach for 3 days. They are absolutely loving finding shells. We have chatted and she has sent pictures. I have told her what some of the shells are. Today she did a video chat of her and our granddaughter at the beach. She said Mom I just called to take you to the Beach with us. It was so much fun. I was so excited ! The found angel wings, scallops,slipper snails, and many more. She was amazed that I could tell her what most of them were. She also found a dead sea star with 8 legs. It was huge. Thank you for all of the work you do to make these videos. They are the highlight of my week. ❤
Hi Sharmon, I received my third box of your shells today and they always bring a smile to my face! Because of you I know the names of these shells and that makes me happy. You seem to have recovered from the flu 2 wks ago, We missed you. Glad you’re better ❤
I have had a really rough week dealing with Fibromyalgia pain that's making moving and walking hard to do and I sooooo needed this stroll with you...hearing the water, birds etc... and just breathing in the briny beach from my recliner. Thanks so much for the mini retreat! The sights, sounds and scents of the SWF beaches always calms me. 🥰🐚🐬🌴🦀🏖❤
Not to be a know it all, my friend... I went to a naturopath for fibromyalgia several years ago and she put me onto natural digestive enzymes. It changed my life, really less pain. I'm still disabled but the difference is astonishing.
Hi coming down in march. Will book a trip with you. Love how you are so great about leaving the live shells in the the ocean. So good for people to know. Didn’t know how long it takes you to do one video. Amazing. Thanks
I too have names for these beautiful shells,thanks to u!! My husband is blown away that I know the names . Thanks bunches!! I won't miss a Sunday,or now my fundays!! Thxs.Teach!!
I’ve never been shelling at the beach and I’ e learned so much by watching your videos. I hope to get to Florida at least one more time so I can collect shells. Thanks for taking us along and have a great week!
I finally made it to Ft Myers beach last October 30th? Came from our annual Schnauzerfest pilgrimage from Rome, Georgia. We have been to Sanibel Island the last 2 years! So beautiful and this last year I found several calico scallops, which I think are beautiful! Thank you Charmaine (sp?) for the Sunday videos! I wish I lived closer to shell more especially since I’m retired. We r from Kansas and can only come once a year for now!
I grew up on Long Island and have been living in landlocked Pennsylvania and miss the beaches I grew up going to. Living vicariously through your videos ❤
The beach is definitely tranquility and zen for me. lol. It was sunny and 71 degrees today. Much better than the days we've had recently. OMG. That live Olive. Love it. Terrible sense of direction. lolLove the Crown conchs. Hard to find for me. That's a gorgeous Shark Eye. wow. Love Alphabet Cones. Love the Murex. Those coquinas were adorable. Love them. 2 Tulips with drill holes? I'm surprised. lol. First time seeing that. That tinted Cantherus is beautiful. Love that last Calico Scallop wow. Oh, the dredging. Hmm. So Cool. Glad to go along with you to see the beach
It's heaven at negative low tide!!!! Look at all the beachy gooness!!!! So sorry your a bit under the weather to say the least, right! I hope for a speedy recovery.. ohh dredging..I hope it doesn't change the beach too much covering everything that already lives there.. biggest hugs and cant wait for next week already!!!
Holy cow that Sanibel Turrid is spectacular! Even if not a keeper that is awesome to see what they are supposed to look like before the waves destroy them. I've only ever found the worn individuals, never knew what they look like alive. What a fabulous find! Can't wait for the next beach walk!
Wasn't that specimen spectacular? Most the ones I have are also pretty worn - even the examples in books aren't that great. Hopefully one of these days I'll find one in that good condition 😃 I still haven't found a giant eastern murex myself so there are lots and lots of shells I'll still hunting for.
I normally don’t watch too many other shelling channels but I did see a thumbnail for one and I saw that she showed a video of the space coast seashell festival! O M G ! It was amazing! I’m sure you know about it. It’s in Melbourne Fl and it was on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. I actually saw the video 2 days after it was over! If I knew I would have flown down there! I am def going to go next January!
Once in my life, I want to go to a shell show. My town will hold a shell program for kids at the library. I'm so excited ! PS I saw a tour of a shell museum in Yampoon, Australia on RUclips. I wished and clicked my heels... Didn't get get there but it was cool.
Oh my, I could hardly believe my eyes when you showed the live Sanibel Turrid! What an amazing sight!!! Great shell haul and lovely virtual beach walk this week. Try to have faith in the skill and knowledge of everyone involved in the process of the beach renurishment. I'm sure each project to customized to retain that beach's unique qualities.
I just checked and looks like we have a little red tide in the area too, which may delay my trip to FMB to check - but I'm dying to see what the beach looks like now. Hopefully you're right and the beach will be okay. I've been visiting Lovers Key that has been renorished and it's been slim pickings!
I recently found your channel and I’ve learned so much! I’ve always loved the beach but I have a whole new appreciation now. Watching before bed helps ease the days stresses. Thanks again from 🇨🇦! 🐚 🩵 Looking forward to finding a beautiful hinged spiny jewel box of my own one day 😃
So beautiful, can’t wait to get back to the beach. Love looking for seashells now because of you I know what they are. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You ❤❤❤
Great intro! Ever thought of becoming a writer?😅 "Bathing suit top and a skirt"?? 🤣 Love it! FMB never lets you down! Beautiful stuff! Thanks for making a special effort this week to put this out! 😘
What a relaxing beach walk! Hope you are feeling better. Last week we started at FMB access 11 and made it just past the old fishing pier. I wanted to go further, but these old legs objected. Lol. Now we are booked on a tour with SWF Shell Guide. (There is a pull down menu where you tell how you heard of the tour. Your you tube channel is there to click on.) We have been to both Dickman’s and Kice and 🤞🏼we will go to Kice. We are flying home next week due to problems with my cataract surgery and are getting cortisone shots in our knees so hoping I can walk farther on the shell tour.
Gloria and I watch every week! Sanibel is our destination place every year from Chattanooga. We’re coming down in the spring and also at the end of May. Cannot wait! Thanks for your inspirational treasure hunting.
There’s nothing I love more than looking for shells on the beach. I have such wonderful memories of doing that with my grandma. I am headed to Naples soon and I was wondering if there’s a beach there that’s better for shelling than others?
@ thanks for the tips! Can’t wait to head to sunny Florida! I love watching your channel. It makes me feel like I’m actually in Florida. I love Marco Island too… Great place for shells.
Late again, but I have an excuse! I was writing a message to an angel and getting items together to make someone's life better and feed their kids. Forgiven? Ft. Myers Beach! So much fun! Speaking of rebuilding the beach, did you know when the beach at Panama City was "renourished" after a hurricane a few years back, the Corps of Engineers took the sand from that mythical place called "the trough", where the good shells are dropped by the waves. People were going through the piles of sand and shells so wildly, searching for the good shells, that guards were reportedly stationed to protect the piles of sand and shells meant to rebuild the beach! I know people who went out late at night, though, and poked around after the guards left! There were many trophy shells found and, if I remember correctly, several really great Junonias! So ... just keep those thoughts in mind if COE does the same at FMB! The brittle star is going "Move my little stumpy arm...move my other arms...move my little ...Oy!" Poor little lettered olives! They're probably getting stepped on all day! Such a fun day! Glad I dropped in to come along! Good haul, too! Love to hear the happy in your voice. You must be feeling lots better! Much love until next weekend! R
Your time is yours, not mine, so you watch whenever you dang well please! I've heard stories of people sneaking past guards to hunt shell piles! Our beaches will be dredged sand, so there likely won't be piles but maybe there will be some special specimens that wash up! 🙏🏼
Your videos are inspiring and reminds me of my younger years on floridas west coast. The plan is to donate my ice scraper collection and go some place nice and live the life style.
Oh I would get so excited I would never want to leave!!! I'm retired now and my husband is still going! I would love to move to Florida and just be a beach comber!!!
Thanks a lot or this beautiful video ! My favorite animals are snails and slugs. I love the way, you treat the living animals you find, with respect and love. I saw, you picked up a Cona shell. Are you not afraid, that if there is a living snail inside, it can prick you with its harpoon and inject venom, that can cause serious illness and sometimes even worse? I know this has happened before to unknowing shell pickers. I hope, that it does not happen to you or any other shell picker.
Our living cones down here aren't as deadly as some of the other ones in the world. If I were to be stung, it would be more like a bee sting and likely wouldn't do much damage. I'm still quite careful with them though. I haven't been injured yet and I'd like to keep it that way!
You need to zip over to the Southeast coast The Shell Stories guy was finding hawk wing conchs and knob welks, scaly scallops, and imperial Venus clams, 2 days ago!
Hey SWF Beach Life! I'm planning on going to SWF around sometime in late December or early January of next year to go shelling! I live in Southern California! I wanted to ask you what were some MUST visit locations in SWF for shelling and some equipment I should bring! Also I love the video as always! Your videos always make me feel relieved and relaxed after a long hard day of work!
That time of year I would bring boots in case it's cold, I would plan on visiting Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach, Lovers Key or Marco Island or go on a shell tour and definitely bring a shell bag. With a container to go in it for delicates. I'm going to make a video about the "equipment" one would need in different weather!
@@SWFBeachLife Thank you so much! I will make sure to add all of these to the notes and I can't wait! Also thank you for all of your content that you make and taking us along for the journey!!
If you have to ask this question then you won't understand the answer. 1967 my grandmother took me to the beach and we collected seashells. We picked up slipper shells, whelks, clams, scallops, periwinkles and moon snails. That was on Cape Cod. Today I live within walking distance of a world class beach in Florida and go out collecting a hundred times a year. Almost every time I go shelling I find something I have never seen before or a better version of one I already have. Just last week I found buried in the mud a horse conch that measures a whopping 25.25 inches which is bigger than my book on shells claims they get up to. No animal inside. It was a bit worn and decayed, lots of holes and chips and a big break in the lip but given the size it's now a major addition to my collection. Last year the big shell I found was a 5.875 inch crown conch and I didn't think they got that big. My book says three inches. This one also a bit worn, no coloration as it was completely white but unmistakably Melongina corona with six rows of spines. It might actually be a fossil given the color and condition. I could not tell if it's ten years old or ten thousand years old honestly. I found it when I lifted off a piece of dead coral/Tampa agate to get at what I thought was something else. Both found in the Tampa Bay area.
I'm heading over to Sanibel on the 16th of Feb. But not much low tide that day but I hope to find some special ones to add to my collection! The parking is expensive there though right? Is there a better beach at this time of year! I want to make the most of my only da there! All the best!
I have to admit, I don't care for any of the cone shells. Not sure why but it's true. I love the fighting conchs and my favorite shell is a scallop of any kind.
I'm here!! I'm finally in Florida! But now my question is, How is the red tide effecting the beaches and the shelling? We are planning Sanibel tomorrow. Maybe Ft Meyers or Sanibel on Thursday. Where are the best parking and shelling spots at both places? 😀
Sanibel has red tide unfortunately. I would check the maps and decide what will be best. Lovers. Key is looking good for red tide, but the renorishment really changed the shells showing up.
I thought that live turrid was a Tampa Turrid (not a Sanibel Turrid), but it was hard to see since it was shadowed. The Tampa Turrid can also be dark brown.
So, hopefully, you see my comment. I feel like my comments get filtered out because never do I get a response to any comment that I make like only 1 time has it happened and I was very surprised, but I'm gonna leave a comment here. I wanted to tell you that I think the lettered Olive is my favorite, and the reason why I believe that the Olive is shiny is because they burrow through the sand and they travel along the sand and the sand. Shine, zit up, smooths it out that the sand allows it to get that. Shine on the outside of the Olive. That's what my opinion is, but I don't think anybody really knows a 100% what causes that.
Hi there ! Actually yes, they know what causes them to shine. I was learning that it is their living mantle that causes them to be shiny. It is at it 24/7, same reason Cowries shine.. Consider that the cowries do not do the travels through the sand like the olives, yet they are very shiny. This is stuff I am learning. I got in touch with the Bailey-- Matthews National shell museum today. They are so helpful.
Is Fort Myers better than Tigertail? I was in Hollywood Beach and thought about driving the 2 hours or so across to gasp at this treasure chest of shells I have never seen before- I am a shell nut- I would lie in them in complete confusion because THERE ARE SO MANY! Thanks!
I must say I don’t like that they call some of the moon snail shells ‘false’ shark eyes. Just because there’s a different indentation on the shell is no reason to question the creature’s integrity. You’d think it was a politician or something.
I think there was a petition they were circulating to give them some differentiation in the name. They should have come up with something better than "false." Not very creative! 🤣
The inside of that prickly cockle has the hues of the sunrise. It is a pretty shell. Are all the buildings up and running since the hurricanes last year?
You should see the size of the cones this man is picking up! I have no idea where he is but I wish I was there too! ruclips.net/video/F8LBt0OypwQ/видео.html
Yay shes early!!! Hi Sharmon!! 💜💙🩵🩶❄️❄️🩶 so ive not seen one of those collar things for the shark-eye eggs yet and I would've grabbed it thinking it was trash on the the beach! I love the prickly cockles as well I'm not sure why either lol such a variety today amazing stuff!! Thx for sharing Sharmon!!
So love to watch you. Have she'll gathered in Texas years ago and still have boxes of shells that I use to make jewelry with. Would love to do that again but my wheelchair would not manage in the sand. Keep giving me a lovely dream every Sunday Barbara Beltz
Thank you Sharmon what beautiful shells this haul. I love when you find new shells and all the letter olives. And of course all the sea creatures ❤😊
Well today just blew me away! Kinda cloudy today as I headed down the beach and to my eyes I see my first shell of the day it was a junonia!
Yeahhhhh 🎉🥳
That is awesome!!! I'm glad that junonia found you!!!
GET OUT ! You're not kidding ?! Hooray 😂!!!!!
Let's go to the beach!!! My FAVORITE!!!!
i can't thank you enough for the half hour of peace from the current chaotic environment. your calmness is my weekly coping mechanism.
I’m so glad I could help!
You are a calming influence for me also! Wish I could be there to hunt for seashells. SE PA is cold 30s this morning.😢
@ Stay warm!
If I could attach my pics I'd show you all the shells and sponges collected. And after having followed you for a bit, finding out some things we've found on our vacations have been great finds!!!
I have been buying lidded glass jars for the past year and half so I can display them. Our daughter fusses that she thinks we have collected plenty.
Finding a seahorse was the absolute best though sad. At least he is loved in this afterlife by being put in a display cabinet.
@@yukimibarker7186 I had found seahorses and it was exciting and sad all at the same time.
I have learned so much from you. Our daughter and family have been at Cocoa Beach for 3 days. They are absolutely loving finding shells. We have chatted and she has sent pictures. I have told her what some of the shells are. Today she did a video chat of her and our granddaughter at the beach. She said Mom I just called to take you to the Beach with us. It was so much fun. I was so excited ! The found angel wings, scallops,slipper snails, and many more. She was amazed that I could tell her what most of them were. She also found a dead sea star with 8 legs. It was huge. Thank you for all of the work you do to make these videos. They are the highlight of my week. ❤
Look at you - teaching other people their shells! I love this! Knowledge makes the experience so much more fun 🥰
Hi Sharmon, I received my third box of your shells today and they always bring a smile to my face! Because of you I know the names of these shells and that makes me happy. You seem to have recovered from the flu 2 wks ago, We missed you. Glad you’re better ❤
I still have a cough, but I'm feeling much better. I thank you for helping me keep my shell collection under control! 😅
Nice shells,especially big sandollars 🎉❤,enjoyed the video & hope you are feeling better 😊
I am! Thank you!!! 🙏🏼
I have had a really rough week dealing with Fibromyalgia pain that's making moving and walking hard to do and I sooooo needed this stroll with you...hearing the water, birds etc... and just breathing in the briny beach from my recliner. Thanks so much for the mini retreat! The sights, sounds and scents of the SWF beaches always calms me. 🥰🐚🐬🌴🦀🏖❤
I'm glad the video was able to give you a much needed escape! I hope your trip here is going to be amazing this summer!
Not to be a know it all, my friend... I went to a naturopath for fibromyalgia several years ago and she put me onto natural digestive enzymes. It changed my life, really less pain. I'm still disabled but the difference is astonishing.
Hi coming down in march. Will book a trip with you. Love how you are so great about leaving the live shells in the the ocean. So good for people to know. Didn’t know how long it takes you to do one video. Amazing. Thanks
I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos! They do take a lot of work but are worth it to share the beauty of the shells with everyone!
I’m visiting fort myers in March! I’m so excited to go shelling and I’ve learned so much from your channel. Thank you for such amazing content!
I hope you have fabulous shelling luck when you come!
I too have names for these beautiful shells,thanks to u!! My husband is blown away that I know the names . Thanks bunches!! I won't miss a Sunday,or now my fundays!! Thxs.Teach!!
You’re welcome! I’m so glad my videos are helping you discover shells!
I’ve never been shelling at the beach and I’ e learned so much by watching your videos. I hope to get to Florida at least one more time so I can collect shells. Thanks for taking us along and have a great week!
I hope you do too!
We always vacation in Destin but this year I think we will come to Ft. Myers! Just because of you and the beautiful treasures there!!!
I sure hope that renourishment didn't mess up my beach too much! 🙏🏼
We used to vacation in Destin and then we discovered Marco Island. Never looked back - LOVE IT!
@ I’d still like to see Destin, but I suspect the best shells are here in SWFL!
I finally made it to Ft Myers beach last October 30th? Came from our annual Schnauzerfest pilgrimage from Rome, Georgia. We have been to Sanibel Island the last 2 years! So beautiful and this last year I found several calico scallops, which I think are beautiful! Thank you Charmaine (sp?) for the Sunday videos! I wish I lived closer to shell more especially since I’m retired. We r from Kansas and can only come once a year for now!
At least you get to go to the beach yearly 🙏🏼 Thank you for watching in the meantime!
I grew up on Long Island and have been living in landlocked Pennsylvania and miss the beaches I grew up going to. Living vicariously through your videos ❤
I’m glad you’re enjoying the beach walks!
Lots of beach treasures….Love to go along virtually. Thank you😊
The beach is definitely tranquility and zen for me. lol. It was sunny and 71 degrees today. Much better than the days we've had recently. OMG. That live Olive. Love it. Terrible sense of direction. lolLove the Crown conchs. Hard to find for me. That's a gorgeous Shark Eye. wow. Love Alphabet Cones. Love the Murex. Those coquinas were adorable. Love them. 2 Tulips with drill holes? I'm surprised. lol. First time seeing that. That tinted Cantherus is beautiful. Love that last Calico Scallop wow. Oh, the dredging. Hmm. So Cool. Glad to go along with you to see the beach
Thank you so much for coming along with me!
This is what I would call an epic beach trip!! You have found so many beautiful shells!! I’m smiling big time!! Thank you!😃
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 😊
It's heaven at negative low tide!!!! Look at all the beachy gooness!!!! So sorry your a bit under the weather to say the least, right! I hope for a speedy recovery.. ohh dredging..I hope it doesn't change the beach too much covering everything that already lives there.. biggest hugs and cant wait for next week already!!!
I hope you have a fabulous week!
Love the crown conchs !
Holy cow that Sanibel Turrid is spectacular! Even if not a keeper that is awesome to see what they are supposed to look like before the waves destroy them. I've only ever found the worn individuals, never knew what they look like alive. What a fabulous find! Can't wait for the next beach walk!
Wasn't that specimen spectacular? Most the ones I have are also pretty worn - even the examples in books aren't that great. Hopefully one of these days I'll find one in that good condition 😃 I still haven't found a giant eastern murex myself so there are lots and lots of shells I'll still hunting for.
Beautiful beach. Love Florida! Great shells as always. Stay safe always.😊
Oh goodness. 4 to 5 hours to film!! Thank you for all the time you spend making these videos to share. Love going to the beach with you each week.
It is my pleasure to share my passion with you!
Thank you for sharing this peacefull video 👏👏👏🤗
O my goodness, so many wonderful shells 🐚 😍.
I normally don’t watch too many other shelling channels but I did see a thumbnail for one and I saw that she showed a video of the space coast seashell festival! O M G ! It was amazing! I’m sure you know about it. It’s in Melbourne Fl and it was on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. I actually saw the video 2 days after it was over! If I knew I would have flown down there! I am def going to go next January!
Once in my life, I want to go to a shell show. My town will hold a shell program for kids at the library. I'm so excited !
PS I saw a tour of a shell museum in Yampoon, Australia on RUclips. I wished and clicked my heels... Didn't get get there but it was cool.
Beach time!❤
Ahhh, just finished a Janice seafood dinner and going on a wonderful walk on the beach with you!! Sooo relaxing!!!!
Sounds like the perfect evening!
What a beautiful day at the beach! But, what day isn't made better by being at the beach? I cannot wait to come back to SWFL's beautiful beaches!
No such thing as a bad beach day right?
@SWFBeachLife exactly right!
I love your videos! I enjoy seeing the live critters as well. What a great teacher and blessing you are for my Sunday. Blessings be upon you. 💕
I am so glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you so much for watching!
Love your videos!!!! How I miss the beach!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!🐚🐚🐚🌊🌊🌊🌹🌹🌹😍😍😍😍💖💖💖😀😀😀🙏🙏🙏🙏😘😘😘😆😆😆💕💕💕🌈🌈🌈💐💐💐💐
Thanks for watching! I love the beach too!
Great finds beautiful 🤩🤩💜💚🩵💛🧡
Be still my heart. South end of the island is where I generally stay. Thank You for letting me see the area when I'm not there.😊
It is such a beautiful spot on the island!
Wonderful treasures. I head to St. Petersburg the end of the month. I am looking forward to going to the beach.
I wish you good shell luck!
So relaxing! Love it.
Fort Myers Beach is consistently good to you (and for those of us watching along)! Loved that live Sanibel Turid! Wow, so dark, who knew?!
Was't that shell gorgeous? It was the first time in a long time I had shell envy from a critter 😅
Thanks for the walk. Beautiful treasures as usual 🐚🪸
Oh my, I could hardly believe my eyes when you showed the live Sanibel Turrid! What an amazing sight!!! Great shell haul and lovely virtual beach walk this week. Try to have faith in the skill and knowledge of everyone involved in the process of the beach renurishment. I'm sure each project to customized to retain that beach's unique qualities.
I just checked and looks like we have a little red tide in the area too, which may delay my trip to FMB to check - but I'm dying to see what the beach looks like now. Hopefully you're right and the beach will be okay. I've been visiting Lovers Key that has been renorished and it's been slim pickings!
Love the creatures hiding under all of the other seashells!!
I hope you have recovered from the flu and are feeling better!
I am feeling MUCH better thank you!!! 🙏🏼
I recently found your channel and I’ve learned so much! I’ve always loved the beach but I have a whole new appreciation now. Watching before bed helps ease the days stresses. Thanks again from 🇨🇦! 🐚 🩵
Looking forward to finding a beautiful hinged spiny jewel box of my own one day 😃
Welcome aboard and thank you so much for watching! 🙏🏼
So beautiful, can’t wait to get back to the beach. Love looking for seashells now because of you I know what they are. Thank You, Thank You,
Thank You ❤❤❤
You’re welcome! Happy shell hunting! 😊
Thanks for the wonderful videos. Relaxing. Beach sound s videos are the best.
I’m glad you are enjoying the videos!
One very nice video. I'm there on the beach with you. I'm going to watch it again.
Great intro! Ever thought of becoming a writer?😅 "Bathing suit top and a skirt"?? 🤣 Love it! FMB never lets you down! Beautiful stuff! Thanks for making a special effort this week to put this out! 😘
Thanks beach friend! I wish every week could be as awesome, but perhaps that's what makes it so fun. Sometimes it's great and sometimes it's slow 😃
What a relaxing beach walk! Hope you are feeling better. Last week we started at FMB access 11 and made it just past the old fishing pier. I wanted to go further, but these old legs objected. Lol. Now we are booked on a tour with SWF Shell Guide. (There is a pull down menu where you tell how you heard of the tour. Your you tube channel is there to click on.) We have been to both Dickman’s and Kice and 🤞🏼we will go to Kice. We are flying home next week due to problems with my cataract surgery and are getting cortisone shots in our knees so hoping I can walk farther on the shell tour.
I sure hope the shells cooperate and show up for you before you go home!
@@SWFBeachLife We are on.y going home for a week and the SWF Shell Guide tour will be towards the end of February. Any day shelling is a good day!
Hello. Good Evening 🐚🐚 Happy Shelling Sunday 🐚🐚
Happy Shelling Sunday to you too!
Gloria and I watch every week! Sanibel is our destination place every year from Chattanooga. We’re coming down in the spring and also at the end of May. Cannot wait! Thanks for your inspirational treasure hunting.
Happy planning!
Ooo I just love a good crown conch 🥰
Same!
So many shells! Hugs and stay safe xx
So lucky to live here!
Awesome, All my life I could never just sit at a beach, let alone read 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣 gotta move always!!!
It is a very active hobby!
Absolutely lovely beach walk, thanks so much Sharmon.
I am glad you enjoyed the walk!
Ooh ooh ooh at 20:48 when you picked up the small and big lace murex there was a gaudy right there! I hope you got it!
Good eye! I went back and checked and I do think I missed it 😩🤣
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I love your shell nurdi-ness…. Lol
#Shellnerdsunite!
There are beautiful shells at Sanabell and Captive Beaches, FL
Sanibel
How I miss Ft. Myers and Sanibel. Must visit soon. Thank you!
I’m glad you are enjoying the videos!
There’s nothing I love more than looking for shells on the beach. I have such wonderful memories of doing that with my grandma. I am headed to Naples soon and I was wondering if there’s a beach there that’s better for shelling than others?
I don't spend a lot of time shelling in Naples, but I like Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach, Lovers Key and Marco Island for shelling.
@ thanks for the tips! Can’t wait to head to sunny Florida! I love watching your channel. It makes me feel like I’m actually in Florida. I love Marco Island too… Great place for shells.
Late again, but I have an excuse! I was writing a message to an angel and getting items together to make someone's life better and feed their kids. Forgiven?
Ft. Myers Beach! So much fun! Speaking of rebuilding the beach, did you know when the beach at Panama City was "renourished" after a hurricane a few years back, the Corps of Engineers took the sand from that mythical place called "the trough", where the good shells are dropped by the waves.
People were going through the piles of sand and shells so wildly, searching for the good shells, that guards were reportedly stationed to protect the piles of sand and shells meant to rebuild the beach! I know people who went out late at night, though, and poked around after the guards left! There were many trophy shells found and, if I remember correctly, several really great Junonias!
So ... just keep those thoughts in mind if COE does the same at FMB!
The brittle star is going "Move my little stumpy arm...move my other arms...move my little ...Oy!"
Poor little lettered olives! They're probably getting stepped on all day!
Such a fun day! Glad I dropped in to come along! Good haul, too!
Love to hear the happy in your voice. You must be feeling lots better!
Much love until next weekend! R
Your time is yours, not mine, so you watch whenever you dang well please! I've heard stories of people sneaking past guards to hunt shell piles! Our beaches will be dredged sand, so there likely won't be piles but maybe there will be some special specimens that wash up! 🙏🏼
Sea sand sun and shells 😊
It's super!
Interesting, shark eye collar!
Your videos are inspiring and reminds me of my younger years on floridas west coast. The plan is to donate my ice scraper collection and go some place nice and live the life style.
I remember throwing away the snow brush from my trunk before I drove down here. It was awesome!
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@SWFBeachLife here in northern il we get 5 months of winter and all my outdoor hobbies shut down 🤔
@@allmightygreat1892 I’m not a fan of the cold, so I won’t recommend adding a cold weather hobby 🥶
Oh I would get so excited I would never want to leave!!! I'm retired now and my husband is still going! I would love to move to Florida and just be a beach comber!!!
It is so amazing to live here!
Thanks a lot or this beautiful video ! My favorite animals are snails and slugs. I love the way, you treat the living animals you find, with respect and love.
I saw, you picked up a Cona shell. Are you not afraid, that if there is a living snail inside, it can prick you with its harpoon and inject venom, that can cause serious illness and sometimes even worse? I know this has happened before to unknowing shell pickers. I hope, that it does not happen to you or any other shell picker.
Our living cones down here aren't as deadly as some of the other ones in the world. If I were to be stung, it would be more like a bee sting and likely wouldn't do much damage. I'm still quite careful with them though. I haven't been injured yet and I'd like to keep it that way!
❤ I’m still catching up on last week 😂 girl did you see those snow ❄️ pics from the Panhandle. I had a long week 😂
I was too busy recovering from the Flu I picked up in Disney during that cold snap. I am never moving from SW Florida!!
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You need to zip over to the Southeast coast The Shell Stories guy was finding hawk wing conchs and knob welks, scaly scallops, and imperial Venus clams, 2 days ago!
That video he dropped had been filmed a very long time ago, but I do have an East Coast trip planned for the very near future!
Wow, it looks like that olive had the same markings on it's body as it used on it's shell!.
That is one of the many fascinating things about the natural world!
Hey SWF Beach Life! I'm planning on going to SWF around sometime in late December or early January of next year to go shelling! I live in Southern California! I wanted to ask you what were some MUST visit locations in SWF for shelling and some equipment I should bring! Also I love the video as always! Your videos always make me feel relieved and relaxed after a long hard day of work!
That time of year I would bring boots in case it's cold, I would plan on visiting Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach, Lovers Key or Marco Island or go on a shell tour and definitely bring a shell bag. With a container to go in it for delicates. I'm going to make a video about the "equipment" one would need in different weather!
@@SWFBeachLife Thank you so much! I will make sure to add all of these to the notes and I can't wait! Also thank you for all of your content that you make and taking us along for the journey!!
Wow. That sand dollar
😊 Awesome Video! 😊
We are coming down in April for our 30th anniversary and wondered if you have any hotel recommendations?
I wish I did! Since I live here I haven't had the opportunity to stay at too many places. I usually use a VRBO in the area I want to stay.
Beautiful shells! What do you do with them?
I get asked that question a lot, so I made a video about it: ruclips.net/video/5vq9DJbCJDA/видео.htmlsi=UsnaEM_Goq2QLO08
@I bet! Thank you for the link.
If you have to ask this question then you won't understand the answer. 1967 my grandmother took me to the beach and we collected seashells. We picked up slipper shells, whelks, clams, scallops, periwinkles and moon snails. That was on Cape Cod. Today I live within walking distance of a world class beach in Florida and go out collecting a hundred times a year. Almost every time I go shelling I find something I have never seen before or a better version of one I already have. Just last week I found buried in the mud a horse conch that measures a whopping 25.25 inches which is bigger than my book on shells claims they get up to. No animal inside. It was a bit worn and decayed, lots of holes and chips and a big break in the lip but given the size it's now a major addition to my collection. Last year the big shell I found was a 5.875 inch crown conch and I didn't think they got that big. My book says three inches. This one also a bit worn, no coloration as it was completely white but unmistakably Melongina corona with six rows of spines. It might actually be a fossil given the color and condition. I could not tell if it's ten years old or ten thousand years old honestly. I found it when I lifted off a piece of dead coral/Tampa agate to get at what I thought was something else. Both found in the Tampa Bay area.
That crown conch you have sounds like a fossil - but still so impressive the size they used to get!
@@SWFBeachLife I think everything was bigger in those days. Elephants, bears, sloths, cats...
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You should bring napkins or rags to place between the sand dollars to help prevent breakage.
I'm heading over to Sanibel on the 16th of Feb. But not much low tide that day but I hope to find some special ones to add to my collection! The parking is expensive there though right? Is there a better beach at this time of year! I want to make the most of my only da there! All the best!
Parking everywhere down here is either $5 an hour or you pay one fee for the day in the lot. No free or cheap parking in SWFL unfortunately!
I have to admit, I don't care for any of the cone shells. Not sure why but it's true. I love the fighting conchs and my favorite shell is a scallop of any kind.
I do find it interesting what other people like to collect!
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I'm here!! I'm finally in Florida! But now my question is, How is the red tide effecting the beaches and the shelling? We are planning Sanibel tomorrow. Maybe Ft Meyers or Sanibel on Thursday. Where are the best parking and shelling spots at both places? 😀
Sanibel has red tide unfortunately. I would check the maps and decide what will be best. Lovers. Key is looking good for red tide, but the renorishment really changed the shells showing up.
Did you find a limpet? There is a mystery shell with green on top. You are the expert, but I didn’t hear all the names! Thank you!
Yes! I did find a limpet but I don't think that "shot" made it into the video 😅
I thought that live turrid was a Tampa Turrid (not a Sanibel Turrid), but it was hard to see since it was shadowed. The Tampa Turrid can also be dark brown.
Tampa turrids have a different shell pattern, but they do kinda look like the Sanibel turrid.
This was def a fun walk!! What a haul!! I hope the dredging does not mess your beach up!! Sure hope you have a great week and see you Sunday! XOXO
What kind of shoes do you wear while shelling?
These are my "Everyday" water shoes: amzn.to/3wIwanv
These are little more "Beefy" but I need to wear socks with them: amzn.to/47RtNRR
Bathing suit top and a skirt 😂
I found a shark tooth by the ancient pier nylons when I was there in January.
That is amazing! A very rare find in this area!
So, hopefully, you see my comment. I feel like my comments get filtered out because never do I get a response to any comment that I make like only 1 time has it happened and I was very surprised, but I'm gonna leave a comment here. I wanted to tell you that I think the lettered Olive is my favorite, and the reason why I believe that the Olive is shiny is because they burrow through the sand and they travel along the sand and the sand. Shine, zit up, smooths it out that the sand allows it to get that. Shine on the outside of the Olive. That's what my opinion is, but I don't think anybody really knows a 100% what causes that.
Hi there ! Actually yes, they know what causes them to shine. I was learning that it is their living mantle that causes them to be shiny. It is at it 24/7, same reason Cowries shine.. Consider that the cowries do not do the travels through the sand like the olives, yet they are very shiny. This is stuff I am learning. I got in touch with the Bailey-- Matthews National shell museum today. They are so helpful.
The animals body protects the outside when it's digs in the sand, keeping the shells nice and shiny!
So where is the best parking for ft myers. Then which direction do you go
It's all off street parking so you have to hunt for a street to park on. I like the south end of the island for shelling.
When you find a seater you should have something between your hand and the seater. As the oil in your skin can be harmful to the seastar.
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Have you tried metal detecting
I have not, but I have spoken to people who do it and they really seem to enjoy their hunts too!
Is Fort Myers better than Tigertail? I was in Hollywood Beach and thought about driving the 2 hours or so across to gasp at this treasure chest of shells I have never seen before- I am a shell nut- I would lie in them in complete confusion because THERE ARE SO MANY! Thanks!
Both beaches have a lot to offer, it really depends on what you are looking for! You likely wouldn't be disappointed at either 😃
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I must say I don’t like that they call some of the moon snail shells ‘false’ shark eyes. Just because there’s a different indentation on the shell is no reason to question the creature’s integrity. You’d think it was a politician or something.
I think there was a petition they were circulating to give them some differentiation in the name. They should have come up with something better than "false." Not very creative! 🤣
19:26 you missed another alphabet cone
Didn't see it then and I still can't see it 😅
The inside of that prickly cockle has the hues of the sunrise. It is a pretty shell.
Are all the buildings up and running since the hurricanes last year?
No, not all the buildings are up and running again if you can believe it. It's getting better and better but there is still a lot of work to be done.
You should see the size of the cones this man is picking up! I have no idea where he is but I wish I was there too! ruclips.net/video/F8LBt0OypwQ/видео.html
Fascinating! Wish I knew where that was too. There was a ton of coral, so I'm thinking an island somewhere.
@@SWFBeachLife Another viewer suggested the South China Sea, but possible islands near Australian coast of northern Queensland.
Yay shes early!!! Hi Sharmon!!
💜💙🩵🩶❄️❄️🩶 so ive not seen one of those collar things for the shark-eye eggs yet and I would've grabbed it thinking it was trash on the the beach! I love the prickly cockles as well I'm not sure why either lol such a variety today amazing stuff!! Thx for sharing Sharmon!!
Hi Beach Friend!!!
So love to watch you. Have she'll gathered in Texas years ago and still have boxes of shells that I use to make jewelry with.
Would love to do that again but my wheelchair would not manage in the sand. Keep giving me a lovely dream every Sunday
Barbara Beltz