Sand between my toes & a verse in my heart! Let's walk the beach together! I love shelling Florida-residing on the central east coast.
I can’t hit the beach obsessively like I used to (surprise baby); so for now, why not relive some of my loved beach experiences and invite you along with me! I absolutely LOVE shelling, glassing, sunrises and sunsets, wildlife, learning more about nature-all of it! There is such beauty at the beach and in beautiful shells, that all point to our brilliant Creator.
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:7-10)"
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What finds! We never found shells on our trip to Sanibel but we did find a lot of starfish in the mangroves. I’ve noticed that you seem to pass over the fighting conchs. Are they just too common? Or just not your preference. Sorry for the backseat driving. Blessings!
It was an amazing trip! I have been to Sanibel a couple times not finding much of anything too. Florida fighting conchs are pretty common and I do watch out sometimes for them 👍🏼 just not too often anymore. I do like them though…it was finding a FFC find that was my first “real” shell on Honeymoon Island that got me hooked on shelling ❤️🐚 If you haven’t seen my first couple of videos on Lido dredge shelling - you might like checking it out…FFC shells for days! Crazy how many were “there”. They are like the chicken of the sea 🤯 Also my video of Little Hickory Island I went into a little detail about them ❤️ Your not backseat “shelling” at all 🤣 Take care!
Great finds. I lived on Hutchinson island several ywars ago. I never knew there were those kinds of shells there back then. I need to check ot out now! What tine of year was this filmed? That might make a difference. Usually more shells to be found in winter months.
Thank you. Late May. I have found the “better” shelling there yes, in the winter months (Nov-Feb) but after storms and very windy days I find it can be just as good 👍🏼
I’ve lived in Palm Beach County my whole life and never found anything like that at Lake Worth Beach. Not usually looking. Always went to Hobe Sound. Never found Cowrie shells, just pieces. If we found the lip part, we called it a tiger tail and kept it. Never saw a cone shell either. Such glee! Blessings!
Oh wow! Man I’d love to live in Palm Beach county! It would sure save the miles on my car. I have put some serious miles on my SUV driving all over the place 🙃🤪 The way the ocean floor drops off suddenly right after the sand bars is why most of those shells don’t roll up for us to find on the east coast. Dredging takes place after that drop so all those shells are like sitting past that shelf. If our ocean floor was like the west coast with a constant slop we’d be getting an abundance of shells too washing up. I’ve talked to a dredging guy in Melbourne once and he told me that the drop (in Melbourne Beach) is like 12’ then flat then another drop…that changes in depth all along the east coast. So those shells are out there - to wash up they have to be stirred up. I love Hobe Sound! I have found some amazing hauls from there that I can’t wait to share with you all! Blessings to you too. Thx for watching and your comment.
Oh the memories! When I was about 10, (50 years ago) my family would drive up there (from WPB) near Sand Sprit park. Not sure if that is still there. It was an isolated beach. There would be mounds and mounds of shells about 4 ft deep. It was Heaven. Not sure why. Maybe it had been dredged or just untouched. We would sit on top of those shell dunes and dig for hours. When we stopped finding, we’d move a little further down the beach. There was driftwood too. And once I found a kukui nut. They’re from Hawaii! I’m surprised you found so many Scotch bonnets. They are so fragile and were highly sought after. And that gorgeous conch! Happy shelling and many blessings!
What amazing memories thank you for sharing. I could get lost for days on a shell mound too lol. If I find a good hill of shells I have to peel myself away lol. Lido beach was my shell mountain heaven (my first couple of videos Lido parts 1 & 2). Thank you again for sharing and watching-bless you!
Seriously! That movie messed us up 🤣 My husband got his license years ago in his 20’s, so this would be something fun for both of us to do-just maybe in a couple years and after some praying about it! 🙏🏼🙃 Glad you are enjoying the beach walks! I have so much more to share 👍🏼☀️🐚 Take care!
I love the Orangey/Red thorny oyster shells so much. I love the vibrant colours. You found beautiful shells in a pristine place. So beautiful. Loved the display of everything you found at the end. All the colours, shapes, textures, designs, and worn sea glass. Love the black lions paw. Your favorites were all amazing. Your succulent garden looks so pretty. Those worn shells are also art. Thank you for sharing this beautiful day with us. Waving from Germany. 👋🌊🌊🌴🐚🐚
Hello in Germany! I was born on a US military base in Wiesbaden, Germany 👍🏼 My late father served in the Air Force. I’m so happy you loved the beach walk. I can’t wait to share more from this area! Thank you for this comment ❤️ Blessings!!
Hi! Jan here, from land-locked Austria. Your broken shell succulent garden is gorgeous. I am very jealous of all the Scotch Bonnets, the queen helmet, and the star shell you found in this shelling trip. I just returned from Florida today. While on the East coast, I found a few nice lions' paws and several others from my wish list, but no helmets, knobbed whelks, large cowries (but two itty bitty ones), vases, scotch bonnets, or star shells. Leaves a lot for the next trip! Thanks so much for your entertaining and inspirational videos.
Thank you ☀️ how amazing that you were able to travel abroad to Florida I hope on your next trip you can check off more of your bucket list! And yes, what you haven’t found totally leaves the excitement open for the next time. Welcome back home and thank you for watching and commenting 🌊
Nice! I have lion's paws as my like all-time favorite but I go into periods where others are my favorites too...went through a bonnet phase myself. Thx for watching and it's a pleasure making these shelling videos to share with you.
Took a trip to Palm Beach for shelling and went to John D MacArthur...didn't realize the walk to the rocks was sooo far, over a mile for sure and we never even got to the rocks that are in your video. There has to be a closer entrance to these rocks north of the park. Unfortunately only pieces of Scotch Bonnets and a lion's paw.....lots of bittersweets.
Thank you! Yes, very nice spot - I hope you can visit. A good portion of those rocks are covered now b/c of a beach renourishment north of the park but the rocks come and go depending on where the sand settles. Thx for watching!
The very north end of the park. A good portion of those rocks are covered now b/c of a beach renourishment north of the park a little white back, but the rocks come and go depending on where the sand settles. The best time is extreme negative low tides to see them. Thx for watching!
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Thank you so much for watching-it’s been a pleasure sharing! Thank you so much for the well wishes-with life so crazy busy at the moment I really appreciate that ❤ Blessing for you to have a great week too 🙌🏽
I love your succulent garden!! so many people walk away from the rougher looking large shells. I only have a few that were given to me and I put air plants in them. 20 more days and I'll be at McArthur picking up beauties!!
I had some air plants in horse conchs on my coffee table till the baby came along 🙃 I love the broken larger shells for small planters! Thx so much for watching and have a wonderful time when you go ❤️🌊☀️
Congrats on the helmet! That little crab carapace was a blotched swimming crab. Had to look that one up as I didn't know it either. I don't have big rocks like that at Honeymoon Island except at the jetties and those are always good spots to shell. Love your succulent garden! I only have 1 shell with a succulent (broken horse conch too). That was a LOT of Scotch bonnets!👍 MacArthur looks like a beautiful place! Thanks Roxanne!
Thank you 🐚 Oh thx for the crab shell ID 👍🏼 I can’t wait to get a chance to hop over to Honeymoon Island (so much going on this summer). Thx for watching and happy shelling Ginger 😍
Oh my gosh Roxannr... thos as amazing.. i wad going bananas watching you pick up all those bonnets.. congrats on the helmet and so glad you kept the nig helmet pice! Truly beauty in brokem!!!!! Hugs!
Loved this video! Such a beautiful park!!! 😍 and great finds! Also, love the words from the Bible!❤🎉 thanks for sharing Gods beautiful creations with us!!
I was so excited to see you using the big broken shells for a succulent garden! I am hoping to get some on my trip to Florida in August to do the same thing! Congratulations on finding that beautiful queen helmet!
They make such good little planters! I hope you find some on your trip to FL! Excited for you. I hope you have a fantastic and safe trip here ❤️ Thx for being a faithful viewer 😍 Blessings!
I'm in the Tampa area as of 5 years ago, but we have a couple shells including a very bleached white conch shell that my mom got in Christmas Cove of Great St. James in the USVI around 1975 - one of Epstein's islands. They don't let you take shells from the islands anymore, and there is a small island of discarded conch shells off Virgin Gorda in the BVI.
Looks like a wonderful and family friendly place to visit 🏖️ I loved seeing the underwater scenes of the crown conches, they are so cool! It was also wonderful to see family time with Ella too ❤
Thx Maddie for watching! Yeah, a great family spot...oh Ella, she holds a special place in our hearts for being our "surprise" baby! Best blessing ever!
That's right up the road from me. Since Spectrum has a camera there and shows it frequently in the weather segments, I took a trip up to see it. You actually got great footage of the crown conchs. I didn't see any shells to speak of but didn't expect to. Happy it's back open. Thanks.
Oh nice. Yeah I saw that camera on the pole when I first walked out to the water. So from your experience in all the beach marsh areas around there-it’s not for shelling in particular? It didn’t look like it from Google earth but I could see lots of boating activities in these marshy beaches.
@@FloridaBeachWalks I don't think the "nature coast" is known for shells but I'm sure they've got to be out there. I actually live in New Port Richey (not far from Spring Hill) so the nearest good shelling beach for me is Honeymoon Island State Park which you've been to. The 2 small beaches in Tarpon Springs (Sunset and Howard) don't have shells to speak of either as they sit behind Anclote Key.
@@gingermackeen5741 Ohhh the "nature coast," making a mental note, I didn't know that--thank you Ginger! I love being able to share share on RU-vid and learning from viewers like you ❤ Thank you for the info!
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Awwww hello there in Michigan!!! 👍🏼👍🏼 Glad you are enjoying the channel beach walks and appreciate the verses at the end! God is good 🙌🏽 Thank you for your comment! Yes, the east coast is underestimated but it is a little bit trickier here to find shells 🐚 Wishing you all the best and enjoy the warmth before winter hits your area hard. Blessings! 🦈🌊☀️🐚
Love those calico scallops, I can’t believe how common and beautiful they are over there! Maybe this beach was just good for them? Super cool Knobbed Whelk as well, they’re a nice chunky shell!
For this particular dredge pile I found out from a shelling group more than a month after it was open to the public--messaged a user if I remember correctly to find the location. Army Corps of Engineers are usually in charge of the majority of dredges here and if you google them you can find their current and future project location and dates. The majority of dredge piles are not open to the public for piles but I try to shell in the areas during and after dredges because shells are always stirred up at and near the dredging locations. Also, make friends with dredge guards...most have been so nice and helpful b/c I always go and ask questions directly to the guards (some not so nice and will just blow you off). Hope that helps!
@@FloridaBeachWalks Thanks for the tips. I am just starting to collect a variety of shells this summer so I can use them for my kindergarten classroom.
I have never done a shell dump but I did spend several months digging on the beach in Boca Raton after a beach reconstitution project. The material I found was astounding both in number of species and condition. Tons of nearly perfect shells, including beautiful orange cabrit’s murexes with long intact spines, cones with perfect lips, etc.
That's amazing! And I did hear of someone saying something similar. That they would dig (I think right at the water's edge) after the Boca project. Awesome you found great finds--that is SO the BEST feeling! Take care and thank you so much for watching!
@@FloridaBeachWalks actually I dug further up, but it varies. After sometime, beach erosion would create a sort of wall near water’s edge. The reason that beach reconstitution project was so good is because they dredged sand between two reef ledges, at around 60ft, which brought deeper water species, including some rarities, even a baby junonia volute which I had never heard of from the east coast.
@@marsrii4372 wow that was such a neat opportunity. Yeah I have found large pieces of Junonia in Palm Beach County over the past three years and a friend at my church found a juvenile beat up one a couple years back… they are on the east coast too… the only issue we have is the ledge drop about 10 to 15 feet past the sandbars on the East Coast (that the Gulf stream carves out). That’s why nothing washes up and significant on a regular basis…. The West Coast is a constant gradation all the way down to the bottom except for a few cliffs way out in the middle of the gulf.
Totally bummed for the murex and the scotch bonnets, but the whelk still had great coloring ! Not quite sure what the dead thing at the start might be, but you can rule out a mammal due to the gills, and it appeared bony, so probably not a shark/ray, which are cartilaginous.
Oh I know 😩🐚 Wow then I guess it was one huge fish of some sort then. Thx-I didn’t know that about sharks! 🦈 Thank you for watching and commenting 👍🏼👍🏼
Just love all the shelling videos. Please be mindful using that tool I noticed you knocked a live conch. And there also was a live sea star on a pin shell. I understand we all get excited. But after a storm be super mindful. Of how you dig. You are stepping and slamming some live creatures. Move slow and consciously.
Awesome! I was so excited to see that whelk!! My best friend was shelling about 40 minutes north of me the same morning (we were comparing locations conditions that day) and I couldn't wait to share the find with her and feel very blessed to share it with you all too. Thx for faithfully watching and your comments - I appreciated it so much! Blessings ❤️
Another gorgeous beach! Not sure if you have the in Florida, but some of our beaches have a beach toy library of sorts. They have a box, bucket, or fish crate at the main path to the beach and people can borrow toys to use during their visit, and leave them when heading home. Some folks also donate beach toys they own but no longer need. It's especially popular with kids visiting from out of province who couldn't bring beach toys with them.
That is a really good idea of a beach toy library - if I ever get the change to bring that up to someone "in power" I will. I've never seen one in all the beaches that I frequent (I've seen the cleanup trash buckets and book share library). If we did have a toy library I would have happily donated the basket of toys I found way out in the parking lot! Thank you for this comment and for watching! Take care.
Roxanne, that juv pen shell looks about the right size for making a nightlight. You usually have to break them in half and then glue them separately. They are like stained glass but fragile!😊 I know what you mean about collecting stuff from the beach. I'm one of the first out on Honeymoon Island (other than fishermen) and I can't believe what people leave! Beautiful video and always appreciate the end!❤️
Oh wow a nightlight! I would have never thought but I could so see that making a great nightlight. I'm going to google that now see if I can find some examples. I love Honeymoon Island. That was my first west coast beach I ventured to ❤. We were the last ones out of the park with a few others and MY GOODNESS we got eaten alive by mosquitoes and no-see-ums that were on steroids! We (my whole family) never wanted to get in a car so bad and after we got in we were swatting mosquitoes for the next hour...so note to self leave before sunset!
@@FloridaBeachWalks Yeah the mosquitoes can be absolutely terrible. I go early as the sun's coming up and it's usually not too bad. Last year the copter that sprays broke down so it was really bad after Idalia came by. Hope it's fixed!!
Awesome. I was out for a little today but didn't see much where I was (south Melbourne), but it was REALLY windy. I'll go tomorrow and see what's up. Usually after crazy wind 1-2 days after are GREAT rack likes too :-)
