Holden Beach, North Carolina is a SHELLER'S PARADISE!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @solaceinshelling6552
    @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +22

    It appears that fossilized Sea Biscuit at 18:31 is referred to as Hardouinia mortonis. Additional information can be found here: www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/122544-age-of-fossilized-sea-biscuit/

    • @zhangyu9006
      @zhangyu9006 Год назад

      yes, sea biscuit

    • @beckycaudill998
      @beckycaudill998 Год назад

      They are fairly common here in north central Florida on the gulf coast. I love finding them and fossilized sand dollars too.

    • @beckycaudill998
      @beckycaudill998 Год назад +2

      The Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville has a very nice collection of echinoids.

    • @Gasp7000
      @Gasp7000 Год назад

      @@beckycaudill998 I’ve never found fossilized shells on the gulf side, but I have in the east side on Hutchinson Island.

  • @peggybrowne6012
    @peggybrowne6012 3 месяца назад +1

    I know it has been a while since this video was made but I still want to thank you. It has been many years since I walked Holden Beach and your visit on this video took me back to wonderful times. I loved hearing the Seabreeze in your mic and the sound of the surf. I loved seeing Oliver set up his fishing poles in the surf as my dad did for so many years. I could almost smell the air as you walked along. Thank you for sharing this part of your life in this way. It is truly magical.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  3 месяца назад +1

      Hi dear shell friend. I am so glad to hear that you were able to enjoy this video and find peace.
      Thank you very much for the positive feedback, and for watching!

  • @jandamc
    @jandamc Год назад +13

    I'm so glad others have mentioned the sea biscuits for you - they are the holy grail at Holden. Right after dredging last year we were finding hundreds of them. If you have a chance to go back when it's not so cold, scooping in the water, knee high, provides excellent results! We have better luck there than we did when we went to Sanibel

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +2

      I would definitely love to get back to this place sometime in the future - good advice re: scooping in the water!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @joycebarbour1602
    @joycebarbour1602 Год назад +3

    This was my childhood haunt during the summer one week every August. My perfect retirement place now.

  • @DebbyCastrillo
    @DebbyCastrillo Год назад +6

    Love the fossilized Sea Biscuit! I've found several fossilized large scallops on SW Florida beaches. Thanks for sharing your NC trip!

  • @wendygamble3935
    @wendygamble3935 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great finds! I enjoyed your walk! Thanks

  • @janetknight9978
    @janetknight9978 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for taking us to all the great beaches we won't get to. Your videos are great!

  • @marie-sophie4
    @marie-sophie4 Год назад +6

    This was such a fun shelling adventure in NC ! I was so excited when you found all these olives and the channel whelks ! Also love when Yuki is with you she is the most beautiful friend ! ❤️🐚🐚

  • @KimberlyHarding-u9c
    @KimberlyHarding-u9c Год назад +3

    My uncle lives on Holden, and i just got back from there celebrating his 95th birthday. It is true what you say. I found tons of sea biscuits along with whelks, scallops, olives, and shark teeth. The only other beach that surpasses this was Sanibel Island.

  • @beautifulflorida
    @beautifulflorida Год назад +1

    Beautiful shells! Amazing video! Thank you very much for shearing!

  • @nikoletastavropoulou5515
    @nikoletastavropoulou5515 Год назад +2

    Beautiful beach with lot a beautiful shell.

  • @Gasp7000
    @Gasp7000 Год назад +1

    Since that “sea biscuit” urchin is heavy, then it is possibly a fossilized one, fossilized, meaning, the shells get filled with sand and harden into rock over time. Down at the cliff wall 1/2 mi north of the “dog Beach” on Hutchinson Island just south of the nuclear plant (which is just off of the beach) a lot of fossil shells are found. It’s a bit of a hike up from the dog beach parking lot, but you can shell the water’s edge all the way up the shoreline, so it’s pretty fun. There are restrooms at the parking lot and a hose for washing sand off. My husband and I really enjoyed digging fossil shells out of the cliff wall, which can get as high as 10’ in most spots. The wall is about 1/2-mi long and it is not really a populated spot on the beach. North beyond the plant, there is no more wall, so our guide-friend said, so we didn’t venture beyond that.

  • @denisesorchidparadise1411
    @denisesorchidparadise1411 Год назад

    I just love that little piece of gray coral!

  • @putnamdesign1072
    @putnamdesign1072 4 месяца назад +1

    i'm Love Holden Beach

  • @pablokult248
    @pablokult248 4 месяца назад

    found lots of great calico and bay scallops a few hours further up in corolla NC! a baby's ear and shark eye too, i went at midday but I bet its even better at sunrise

  • @janetknight9978
    @janetknight9978 Год назад

    Beautiful video and naration. You are one of the best. I lived in Jupiter for several years and just love rewatching your incredible first? video on the east coast. So happy for you to have that bonanza day.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Hi friend, your positive feedback means a lot to me. The Palm Beach video you are referencing is apparently a legacy on my channel... I did not intend it to be that, lol! I love shelling in SE Florida!
      Thanks so much for watching this episode(and the other episodes)!

  • @felixzapata9058
    @felixzapata9058 Год назад

    ...instantly recognized the sea biscuit but now my head is full of horse racing trivia...lol...not a matter, though...but, thanx for letting me tag along on another wonderful adventure shelling!!!...in 4k, of course....lol...

  • @jkperdue1109
    @jkperdue1109 Год назад

    Love seeing your doggy with you, well trained. Great showing today. And really interesting info on the Seabiscuit.

  • @cathyjillard4927
    @cathyjillard4927 Год назад +1

    so fun to walk along Holden Beach, thanks for taking us with you. I was there last summer and found so many beautiful olives, babies ears, fossilized sea biscuits and shark eyes, although the shark eyes were a little damaged. I started my walk at the water tower and went to the point. So beautiful up there and so many shells for my first time back to the ocean to shell since 2019. Thanks for enduring the chill.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Hi friend, thank you so much for watching - Holden is a gem for sure!

  • @robinsegnitz3649
    @robinsegnitz3649 Год назад

    I love that you visited Holden Beach! That was a Sea Biscuit fossil that you found, a very nice specimen! Thank you for sharing your shell searches with us!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      Hi friend, thanks so much for watching! I really enjoyed this quick trip to Holden! 🐚

  • @lili8367
    @lili8367 Год назад

    Thank you for sharing this wonderful NC beach trip!

  • @marykimbrough3584
    @marykimbrough3584 Год назад +1

    Very cool finds. I live in NC and have been shelling at Topsail beach for over 20 years, I have mostly scallops and lots of shark teeth.

  • @radioflitercairplanes1715
    @radioflitercairplanes1715 4 месяца назад

    We have a summer home on Holden beach. The beach re-nourishment program has spit some beautiful fossilized gems on the beach. We have found HUGE Megalodon teeth and Great White teeth. I have met shellers from one end of the country to the other and a few from Europe.
    Cape cods national seashore where most of my family lives has some beautiful shells and it has sea glass too..something i never find at Holden beach.

  • @guadalupeknippen528
    @guadalupeknippen528 Год назад

    The shelling is nice where you are. The sunrise 🌅 at 7a.m. is beautiful. 🥰🐕

  • @tonistephic
    @tonistephic Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing all the beaches you so us. Beautiful limpet, the olives vary in sizes. Looks like you had a good time. The one shell looked a lot like a sanddollar but it will be nice to find out the name of it. Thank you and have a great day.

  • @juliamaul7334
    @juliamaul7334 Год назад

    Love this beach! ❤❤❤ Beautiful!!!

  • @rachelleandrichard
    @rachelleandrichard Год назад

    You take us to some amazing beaches. Thanks for great content. Rachelle, Australia 🐚

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Hi friend, thank you so much for watching! I appreciate the solid feedback.

  • @fredamoore1743
    @fredamoore1743 Год назад

    Sweet trip to Holden. I love the sea biscuit. Got that one on my bucket list. So many Florida shells, woo hoo! Didn't use to have shells like that on Holden so I'm sure it's from the dredging. My favorite was the bittersweets. Thanks for the adventure.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      I LOVE the Bittersweets, too - I was actually shocked to find them here!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @shellstories
    @shellstories Год назад +2

    Amazing finds! I'm not too surprised that you found that there were already so many people out there so early in the morning, considering how much attention that beach has been getting. I did some shelling further up the coast on the crystal coast recently and had the beach all to myself before sunrise every time. I guess all the NC shellers went to Holden, LOL. From my understanding, when they were doing the dredging a fossil layer was hit and that's helped all those really cool sea biscuits wash up there. Man, that true tulip would have been a stunner, but it's still cool to see evidence of their existence so far north. Well done as always!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      I LOVE your NC content! Honestly I'd love to get to the Outer Banks area sometime, but just have to find a way to fit it all in, haha! This trip to Holden was somewhat impromptu(driving back from Florida during the holidays), but I had to make a stop, because of all of the hype I've heard, lol. Agreed on the Tulip - it was like, red!
      Thanks for watching, friend!

    • @DeborahHiggins-iu7hv
      @DeborahHiggins-iu7hv Год назад

      I LIVED in Avon NC several years ago on the beach front , I loved going down ever day, morning, noon and night. I found d my soul, looking for shells and driftwood. I now live in New Hampshire a few miles from the beach. I go often, but of course the finds arent even close to Avon North Carolina. Wish I could go. Back for a great shelling week.

    • @birdonawire1988
      @birdonawire1988 3 месяца назад

      When I lived at holden back in the mid 80's ,the short end of holden which lead into the waterway , we used to find whole sand dollars ... I miss holden so much .. 😢

  • @sandierads4223
    @sandierads4223 Год назад +1

    Those are sea biscuits and they are millions of years old. That’s why everyone flocked to Holden Beach last year because the biscuits were coming in. I hope you kept it! We drove from Massachusetts last year to get down there before I can’t walk anymore and we were able to find a few, and I fell in love with that beach. Hopefully someday I will be able to figure out my health and how to get back to doing what I love…shelling!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      Hi friend, thanks so much for sharing your insight. I was super stoked to find out that these biscuits were so old, and part of an offshore fossil bed - it's really so cool!
      I hope you are able to find a way to get back to Holden and enjoy a wonderful shelling experience!
      💙

    • @sandierads4223
      @sandierads4223 Год назад +1

      @@solaceinshelling6552 thank you for your kind words. Your channel has truly brought me solace as I battle these diseases in my spine and long term Covid. I’m forever grateful to be able to come along on your adventures. Thank you for taking all of us along, I’m sure I am not the only one that you have helped get to the beach when we can’t do it ourselves. Any ocean is definitely my calm place.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      @@sandierads4223 🐚🌊

    • @Gasp7000
      @Gasp7000 Год назад

      Sandy Rads…I am going through Long Covid as well, plus Shingles and profound fatigue and it’s so hard that it interferes with my greatest joys at the beach, shelling. I’d do anything to get back to the beach and never leave again. I really appreciate these wonderful videos for that reason as well, such great beach therapy! I’ve learned about F. prausnitzii damage from Covid helps and am hoping restoring it will help restore my strength again-I just hate being away from the beach to shell! God bless you in your healing!

  • @Lisa.Sparkman
    @Lisa.Sparkman Год назад

    I was wondering what it would be like up a little farther north and obviously it is great! Thanks for another great trip

  • @Wentletrap213
    @Wentletrap213 Год назад

    5 of 7 in the morning. Yes, NC is VERY competitive. Holden is awesome!

  • @SharonChristman-q3i
    @SharonChristman-q3i Год назад

    If you like finding Bittersweets, head up to Navarre Beach. We normally do our shelling in Southwest Florida from Siesta Key to Marco Island. At Navarre we found several shells in abundance that we don't usually find down south -- Bittersweets, Imperial Venus, Queen's Helmet, Scotch Bonnet, and some of the largest Augers I've ever seen.

  • @abigailhowes5944
    @abigailhowes5944 Год назад +1

    You found what we used to calla sea biscuit, and it is fossilized. That is why it is so heavy.

  • @Monicacride
    @Monicacride Год назад

    @Solace, That was so beautiful! Great finds! What kind of dog do you have?? She’s so precious 😍🐚🐚 Thanks for sharing. I know you’re enjoying your trip. Zig zagging along the coasts. 🥰

  • @genehorton8089
    @genehorton8089 Год назад

    If you had gone to the East End there is a dip and larger shells roll in. Love Holden shelling. Cindy in NC

  • @merriezahra8747
    @merriezahra8747 Год назад

    How fun was that. Love the sea biscuit.

  • @glendabadders5714
    @glendabadders5714 Год назад

    Can’t believe you didn’t get any of the sea biscuits. They are so cool. You will have to go back.😊 glad you had a good time. NC beach’s are beautiful. Enjoy your channel.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Interestingly, I didn't realize what they were, and how old they are until I returned home and did some research. They are amazing! I wish I would have grabbed more, lol!

  • @kozlinda
    @kozlinda Год назад

    solace indeed. thank you ❤️

  • @roamingwiththemilligans
    @roamingwiththemilligans 8 месяцев назад

    I’ve watched so many of your videos and just saw you were in our town!! We live in Holden and we love watching your videos!!! It was amazing to see you here and finding all our favorite finds! I am going to post a few of my shelling/shark tooth hunts soon on our page and we have some of Cape Lookout also.. you have to make Cape Lookout, NC a stop next time!

  • @graciehood2308
    @graciehood2308 Год назад

    The shells today are beautiful and of course a hello and ear scratch to most beautiful Yuki love seeing her

  • @SWFBeachLife
    @SWFBeachLife Год назад

    I have to get up there. I’d fill my bag with shark eyes and baby ears! PS - I’m loving the new intro!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      Hi friend, you would love this place... I am sure! Thanks so much for the great feedback on the intro, I appreciate that.
      Thanks as always for watching!

  • @thebexcomplex
    @thebexcomplex Год назад

    Nice sea biscuit score!!!

  • @cathyjay2569
    @cathyjay2569 Год назад

    What a gorgeous haul! But the prettiest thing on that beach, hands down, was Yuki! I’m in love with your baby!♥️TN Nana

  • @deniseyoung5385
    @deniseyoung5385 Год назад +1

    The heavy thing is a fossil! It’s a type of sand dollar. I think it is called sea biscuit or something like that. I have seen them for sale in rock shops. I’m putting this beach on my list. Looks great! North Carolina was really nice when I was there.

  • @JuliaOConnell-k6v
    @JuliaOConnell-k6v 7 месяцев назад

    What a beautiful beach

  • @dianesalvato3078
    @dianesalvato3078 Год назад

    Thanks for taking us to a new beach. Those channel whelks are so pretty. Did you pick up that baby’s ear that was next to the nutmeg?

  • @rickshannon2044
    @rickshannon2044 Год назад

    That's an ancient petrified sea biscuit, and are one of why Holden is famous. People dig for them.

  • @abbybristow2025
    @abbybristow2025 Год назад

    Awesome video. I love shelling and digging through piles of shells just like you did here. What part of Holden Beach did you venture to? I hear the East End is prime for shelling.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      I started walking at the Pier and headed north. It was my first time visiting, so I just headed out and explored!
      Thanks so much for watching!

  • @rremm4917
    @rremm4917 Год назад

    I live in NC and this is so cool. Love the video

  • @pennycox2658
    @pennycox2658 Год назад

    We have had a house on Holden Beach since the early 1980’s. We are on Seaview Drive on the West End.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      This place is really beautiful. I throughly enjoyed my quick stop here!

  • @bebofrazier5690
    @bebofrazier5690 Год назад +1

    Fossilized Seabiscuit for that heavy one! ❤

  • @tracyp69
    @tracyp69 Год назад +1

    I would LOVE to be able to find smaller moons and shark eyes here on my beach in MA. They're all huge.... which isn't a bad thing, but I wish there were a few smaller ones here and there!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +2

      Interesting observation re: Mass shells - I find smaller Northern Moon snails occasionally in Maine, so I know they are out there!

  • @Katherine-rq8mk
    @Katherine-rq8mk Год назад

    Imagine my surprise when I saw you visiting Holden Beach NC! Family summer vacation for many years (up to my teens in the 70's). Didn't like it much then cuz not much to do for a teenager except smoke weed and shell with my yearly friends. It's where I found most of my wentletrap

  • @Merlijnvv
    @Merlijnvv Год назад

    The camera is moving a lot, but besides from Lamarcka imbricata shells, it looks like Anadara brasiliana valves are everywhere on the beach.
    Anadara brasiliana is north Caribbean. And the species in Brazil, South Caribbean, is called Anadara corrugata.
    Much confusion in the past, even nowadays identification often goes south... yes, Anadara brasiliana at 8:33.
    And 9:07 for two seconds you can see Lunarca ovalis, the oval grey valve. Lunarca ovalis also 9:52 the largest valve on the screen.
    18:39 looks like a fossil sea urchin.
    The entire state of Florida had been a coral reef for millions of years, until the Pleistocene. Then it dried up. Meters of piled up reef fossils.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Hi friend, thanks so much for the valuable historical insight here, and the ID's!
      And, thanks for watching!

  • @RHODOAN
    @RHODOAN 8 месяцев назад

    The East end of Holden at low tide is likely the best place to find unbroken, perfect shells.

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  8 месяцев назад

      Will definitely have to check this area out, if I can make it back!
      Thanks for watching!

  • @cindywhite9115
    @cindywhite9115 11 месяцев назад

    that big heavy round thing is called a sea biscuit

  • @sgbarton6308
    @sgbarton6308 Год назад

    LOVE your videos!! Have you ever shelled on Cape Cod, MA?? I’m heading there this summer & would love to know where to go to find shells (& sea glass?). Thanks!!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      I have never shelled on Cape Cod so I am not sure of the best spots there, but I have heard shelling can be good, especially after a storm. I have shelled once in Nantucket Bay, and it was pretty good!
      Good luck on your adventure, and thanks for watching!

  • @JanetShephard
    @JanetShephard 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very old fossil seabiscuit every one looking for them

  • @connieheitz8982
    @connieheitz8982 Год назад

    My mom's favorite was the olives.

  • @graciehood2308
    @graciehood2308 Год назад

    The heavy shell you found is extremely old it is a fossilized Sea Biscuit sand dollar family they did some dredging on Holden beach about a year ago there were thousands of them on the beach very nice find and in decent shape

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад +1

      Thanks so much for the ID! It's so cool to be able to see these here 🐚

  • @barbridingsTheResinator
    @barbridingsTheResinator Год назад

    Yay! Hi Yuki!! woof

  • @graciehood2308
    @graciehood2308 Год назад +1

    I hope you kept your sea biscuit they are prehistoric they are if I read correctly 300 million years old

  • @trishbrown6026
    @trishbrown6026 Год назад

    I am currently at Holden Beach, facing the water , did you travel to the left of the pier?

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Hello, I hope you were able to find your way here and get some goodies! I went left from the pier and walked a couple miles.
      Thanks for watching!

  • @ashxkitty8332
    @ashxkitty8332 Год назад

    im going there today!

  • @cdog71593
    @cdog71593 7 месяцев назад

    I found a bunch of ww2 45 caliber shells last time I visited back in 2018 now I’m here currently in 2024 and haven’t found any but have found many sea biscuits haha

  • @pamdennis1007
    @pamdennis1007 Год назад

    The thing that looked like sand dollar, is a sea biscuit.

  • @patifagan6774
    @patifagan6774 Год назад

    Kool you brought your dog

  • @cindywhite9115
    @cindywhite9115 11 месяцев назад

    They look for the big welk shells

  • @justBEingjada
    @justBEingjada Год назад

    We call those things sea biscuits the one you were saying was heavy

  • @niaid3711
    @niaid3711 Год назад

    i am from indonesia, this is have very very muchs

  • @monicaeaton8860
    @monicaeaton8860 Год назад

    Everyone is going to holden for the sea biscuits!! People are traveling near and far just for them…

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Agreed, and those biscuits are just sooo cool!
      Thanks for watching!
      🐚

  • @christinamoore2790
    @christinamoore2790 Год назад

    Its the sharks teeth and sea biscuits that draw people early.....the teeth are a plenty!

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Год назад

      Great info to know! In the time since I have visited Holden, I have discovered just how unique and ancient those Sea Biscuits are - amazing!

  • @theoasis6095
    @theoasis6095 Год назад

    hey somewhere I live.

  • @callicordova4066
    @callicordova4066 Год назад

    I find solace in shelling.

  • @cathyscism1817
    @cathyscism1817 Год назад

    It's a Seabiscuit

  • @gaylescovel7308
    @gaylescovel7308 Год назад

    Yt failed to notify me! Shame on them!

  • @JoAnnSmith-bu9nl
    @JoAnnSmith-bu9nl Год назад

    sea biscuit

  • @jodeerochelle3370
    @jodeerochelle3370 10 месяцев назад

    You all do know there are other beaches to go shelling at. Why do you all need 5 million sea biscuits?

  • @jodeerochelle3370
    @jodeerochelle3370 10 месяцев назад

    Also people COVER UP YOUR HOLES!!!

  • @lisapolk5263
    @lisapolk5263 Год назад

    Sea bidcuit

  • @ashxkitty8332
    @ashxkitty8332 Год назад

    i want to find shark teeth

  • @billjenkins5693
    @billjenkins5693 Месяц назад

    YOU aren't from there

    • @solaceinshelling6552
      @solaceinshelling6552  Месяц назад

      Hi friend, I am not from North Carolina. Like so many others who visit... just passing through for a shell adventure 💙
      Thanks for watching!

  • @AIGeneratedBITCoinApproved
    @AIGeneratedBITCoinApproved Год назад

    Seashells are very bad luck, I hope you leave them on the beach and sea where they belong, you should never bring them into your home.

  • @dottiehelton2975
    @dottiehelton2975 Год назад

    It’s a Seabiscuit

  • @debbiegolomb704
    @debbiegolomb704 Год назад

    Sea Biscuit