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Just now caught your marsh shelling. Came to Ft.Meyers 4 wks ago and brought home a backpack full of shells. I live in the middle of Tx on 40 acres with a 1acre pond and there are a ton of clam shells and yes they are on my porch

Some of the birds you thought were turkey vultures were not. They flew too fast. Vultures soar and are awkward near the ground. They have great eye sight but even better sense of smell. Yup, they can smell dead animals from a great distance. I loved the land snails and the muscles. It would be interesting to try making buttons with them.

It occurs to me that dental professionals would be good at cleaning shells.

Snakes, alligators noooooo not me although I love those apple snails tho

Question.. what ap do you use for the tide?

Your videos gave taught me a lot, but you should show us other shells that you do not gravitate to in order to expand our knowledge.

The long spiral shell is a Hercules Club whelk. It's rare to find them in Florida, but they are there. More commonly found in Australia.

I would've taken that crab shell, it was pretty cool.

I love it when the fighting conchs have kind of a checkerboard pattern on them!

New sheller here. Only get to go out about one week per year on vacation. Just went to Keewaydin for the first time last week. Best shelling day I've ever had, and most of it came from one shell pile!

Aren't you ever afraid for your safety from bad people ?

Where do you live to be finding shells like that???

My heart flutters when I find the large calico scallops 💜💗🧡

Found my first apple murex on Pass-A-Grill yesterday 🤗

Hello again - I've got Acid Magic and a bunch of shells ready to be cleaned. Couple more questions for you - Can I use a plastic table (I see you have a wood surface) and if I choose to use gloves will standard kitchen cleaning gloves be okay or will the acid melt them Thanks :)

Hello-would you ever, for pay of course, be a beach guide for a few hours to a land locked New Mexican who could possibly come to Florida??

I've been using clearcoat nail polish to harden.

I think this is the first time I've seen a video here. I went a couple of years ago. Got a bucket full of the various types. They clean up and display nice.

My favorite spot too. Have a j from there

Nice side quest! Brings back memories of the Florida Master Naturalist Program! Keep surprising us. I love it.

I was given some rams horn snail shells, but had no idea what they were called. Thank you for identifying them for me

Love this video ❤

They look so similar.. Thank-you for the information!😊

Thanks!🥰

I have only seen shells on the beach.. 🐚🌊 But I have seen tiny shells near my house. But I didn't know we can find shells from these types of places too!🙂 I love this video.😊

How do you differentiate shark eye and bladder moon snails?

You do a wonderful job showing the shells. You say find your passion, "I found mine...the beach". I live in Iowa, but treasure every trip south. I don't do tourism, I spend every moment on the beach...seeking, breathing and listening. Thank you!

Always love your videos. We like to take shelling vacations to the gulf coast. Used to stay on Sanibel. Last year we went to Marco. This year we are looking for a house big enough for 8. I found a vrbo on the very south end of Estero Island right across from Lovers Key. Is that a good place to shell? In this video you said you liked to shell in that part of Fort Myers Beach. Exactly what part do you think is the best?

I have bleached the dark snails before and all that "dark rich color" comes off. I guess it is the same as a periostracum? They are blue and pastel underneath. They are very pretty. I have kept some of mine natural and some bleached.

Great video on a new Shelling adventure. I’ve lived in Florida my entire life and never thought about alligators in freshwater until November 2020. Since then,I stay far away from the boat docks And waters edge. If there is a raised platform to stand on, I’ll look in the water from there. Every time my son goes fishing, he brings me home, apples snails, and ram head shells. I’m going to make him watch this video so he can see the long pointy ones that you found.

Have you gone to Destin-Fort Walton beach?

I know you’ve probably been asked this question before, but what is the difference between an moonsnail, and a false moonsnail, thank you very much for the great videos too

Am I the only one who thinks the invasive shells would make great planters for succulents?

Umm... a few of the shells look like ammonites. Fossils

Gorgeous shells!!! ❤❤❤

This is so cool. I used to have a time share on Ft Myers Beach. I collected shells and glued them to frames with pictures of my two granddaughters at the beach in their cute little swimsuits. Adorable. Now they are grown.

There are so many nice ones being passed up 😩, I saw quite a few bigger ones without critters

i feel terrible because few months ago while I was shelling I picked up a tiny shell thinking it was empty, there was a baby hermit in it😭

"Let's go to the marsh" 😂😂

The mussel shells make beautiful wind-chimes, a small succulent would look cute in the curly shells, shells good , fire ants not so good 😐, birds are beautiful they eat well 😊, all the shells you collected are fascinating and beautiful, wow those 2 experimental mussel shells turned out gorgeous! Great finds and great job!! ❤❤

Be advised that in many states, including apparently FL, the collection, harvesting, and possession of freshwater mussels (unionids; what you're calling clams) is regulated by conservation authorities. Yes, even just the shells. It's kind of like owning feathers. Also, many unionids are declining, threatened, endangered, and possessing their shells could get you in trouble. Check out your state regulations re freshwater mussels. Finally, the "meh" clam with ridges is the invasive Asian clam.

You discovered one of my favorite places to explore when the beach isn’t an option!! Fun to see you experiencing land shells 😊

Hi, I’m wondering why you don’t use the acid you use on the sea shells?

Me and my family went to tiger tail for the first time we took that lagoon path on accident and had to use our boogie boards to float our beach wagon across the lagoon😂😂

The growth of the beak size is not intentional as a reaction to the changed environment with the tougher shells. It is also near impossible that they adapted within a year. Those kind of adaptations need a lot of generarions. and these birds probably do not build nests all the time. The point is that adaptations are random mutatations and one mutation fits just better than the other. Mutations in beak size favor the larger beak in this case. The survival chances are just a little bit better and over time the larger beaks will dominate and evolve even further until a larger beak does not give additional survival chances. It takes lots of generations before these beaks have doubled in size.Not within a year, that is NOT true. Survival of the fittest should be called: survival of the most fitting. And this process takes many generations, has no intentiionality because it it about random mutations, and has nothing to do with individual effort. Or with the faulty idea that 'the strongest survives' .That is not what 'fittest' is about.

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Don't use bleach for freshwater shells! at 20:12 those are Corbicula shells. Before I became very ill I had the plan to glue the smaller specimens togeter, drill a hole in each one of them, and you guessed it: make beads and then a necklace. Maybe even gradually increasing in size with the biggest one in the middle on your chest. Oil'em up, and who knows what it could have been. All those plans are history now.. Each trip I found dozens of those corbiculas. Tip: use wooden tooth picks instead of metal. and lukewarm water only. Dry and oil. sometimes, thinner mussels have a tendency to crack when they dry. So when still a bit wet, already apply mineral oil if you can.

11:05 Viviparus snail. Here in the Netherland we have now 3 species. One new invasive species just looks like Viviparus viviparus, but gets a lot bigger. I gave it all away. Edit: dirty business? well it is all clean. Dirty is when you have a drought and the pond is half dry, but with botulism and blue algae. On top of that you have an entire population of a few hundred big swan mussels rottin in the sun-heated mud. Some were already clean, some were at an advanced rotting stage, and had become like scrambled egg... I collected about 150 of those, and some were so bad that the flies were already on the goo as it still fell to the ground. Thát was a dirty business! With my boots though the rotten mud, with dead and diseased birds around me.

I think the long pointed snail shell might be a rabbit snail. Those rams horn snails are so cool, never seen one before. You have inspired me on my next kayak trip yo see how many fresh water shell types I can find. Love your channel!

at 9:10 in the shop are shells that are found alive and killed, but also the same as you just found there yourself: fresh dead specimens with the operculum still present. Dealers in India will find operculums of a species, and when you buy from them you get a generic operculum from the big stash. It's not a one-way street, it's more like an intersection. By the way, you can polish the thicker mussels, drill a hole in it and use a tiny carabiner clip through the hole... and you have an amulet. Oil it several times with mineral oil and it will shine like silver. There are some really nice small electrical hand tools out there, with multiple poish heads you can use. Carabiner clips come in dark bronze colour, chrome, pink chrome, and yellow copper i believe. about 18 mm total length including the eye. I have made some amulets myself, and drilling/polishing at the right spot needs some practice. The thicker the shell the easier the polishiing. Personally I have only used the narutal shell shape, but you can make it any shape you like as far as the shell permits.