Finding Seashells in Yeppoon | Low Tide at Cooee Bay  

G'day Mimi 👋🏻💖 This new location really has a lot of different shells 🤩 I mean, the distances between this beach and the home beaches is a lot, so it makes sense, but it's still exciting!! The Partridge Sundial is an absolute knock out; I found some more on my next Yeppoon beach too, but not as nice as this one ❤️ The drupes were really lovely from here; similar to some of the home beach ones, but I think that Toad Drupe was even chunkier! The acid drip really made a BIIIIG different! Oh, you know, that's a good way to describe the Smooth Moon Turban!! I wish I had found more of them, I think they're a great new shell 🐚😃 Thanks for watching, Mimi 🥰

G'day Selena 👋🏻💖 Oh yes, there are a lot of Cockle shells on the shore at this beach in Yeppoon! I think Hervey Bay sometimes has more, though! The little olive shells were really lovely; I have only ever found one olive shell at my home beach; they are really rare there, but less rare in other parts of Australia 🌏. Oh, I'm curious now: what is your favourite type of sea shell? As always Selena, thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Richard 👋🏻🐚 Oh wow, thank you so much! It's wonderful to hear that I motivate you to go out shelling 🤩 it's really the best hobby! Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Pearl 👋🏻🏖️ Hehe, it's still the Propeller Arc!! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Sherrie 👋🏻💖 I couldn't leave you all hanging, I had to share a look at it getting a dip in acid! Thanks for watching the Yeppoon adventure 🥰

G'day Mary Ann 👋🏻🏖️ I think you chose the best of the new shells with those two; they were terrific last minute finds for me 🤩 ahhh I'm glad that you liked the Nerites too; they're such an underrated shell species (zero of them at the shell show to see or to buy) so I almost think that I'm alone in liking them 😅 but I'm fine with that! Thank you so much for watching 🥰 and did you change your cat profile picture to be another picture of your cats?? So cute, I approve!!

G'day Susan 👋🏻💖 That was almost the title of this video 😂 it really was a heaven for the Nerites!! I really do like these little shells too much...I didn't mention it, but for the final display, I did give most of the nerites a little oil to bring out their colours; they like to sit in the sun on the rocks all day, so of course they need a pick-me-up 😂 Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Green Thumb Gardener 👋🏻☘️❤️ The huge Bladder Moon was a very nice surprise 😁 I had found only very broken and old ones until then, so seeing a basically perfect, huge, and unoccupied one was wonderful! I wonder how much bigger then can get?? I have some Shark eyes from the USA that are massive, so I wonder if a giant one is possible for my Bladder Moon Snails too?? Anyhoo! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Linda 👋🏻🐚 It was fun and interesting to see all of these new shells at a new beach 🏖️ and the Nerites as well 😂 Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Pam 👋🏻💖 Those Nerites were so much fun to see! I knew that they could be different colours like this, but it was still exciting to collect some very different colours amount the same species. I wish that the shell show had a Nerite display; alas, it did not, and none for sale either...such an overlooked shell family!! I wish you were out there with me; I ran into a lady from Utah at this beach (she was on holiday with her husband) and seemed to be enjoying the hunt for shells too! Anyways! The Limpet was interesting, and I'm glad that I took it as well. The underside was surprisingly nice, but I mostly grabbed it to have a little more variety from this place 🐚🐌😂 I know I've said it before, but the next (and last) Yeppoon beach was more varied...though it didnt have any more Polished Nerites, Limpets, or Toad Drupes to find 😅 I'm soooo glad that I found on unoccupied Toad Drupe before needing to leave!! So glad that I dipped it in acid to show everyone; it was a really fun result! Thank you so, so much for watching this adventure at a little beach today 🥰

G'day Judi 👋🏻🏖️ I'm so glad 🤩🐚 I hoped that the Nerites wouldn't be too much for everyone...I think I try to film as little of them as possible 😂 except for the ones which really stood out! That Toad Drupe is a stunner; I'm so lucky to have found an empty one before I had to go 😲 Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Donna 👋🏻💖 Hehe, I hope I didn't disappoint?? The next (and last) beach has even more shells to see 😉 but this was a really fun one for a quick exploration! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Erin 👋🏻💖 It was quite exciting to see the new shells like this; especially the two drupe Drupe species. Actually, there was the odd few cowries that were very old and worn away...needless to say, I wasn't impressed 😂!! But generally, there wasn't many to cowries to see while I was shelling on those two afternoons...the Keppel Bay area itself has a lot of cowries that doesn't quite wash ashore in the places I was looking, and those ones are stunning. Thank you so much for watching 🥰

I didn't reply?!?! Thank you, Nikoleta 🥰 The sundials were really cool shells to find, I was super excited to see them!! Thanks for watching 🥰🥰🥰

@@SandCoffeeRocks You're welcome 😊

G'day Oceanluvn Gal 👋🏻🌊💖 Hehe, the two new drupes species are just too fabulous to overlook 😁 Ohhh and you liked the Partridge Sundial too 😲 I bet your necklace looks amazing with that as a pendant!! Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Jan 👋🏻💖 It's such an interesting shells, right?!! It had a fabulous transformation after the acid dip, too! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Susan 👋🏻💖 That Toad Drupe is a clear winner in my mind too...I'm so glad that I was able to find one without a hermit crab 🦀 I felt quite lucky on this quick afternoon trip! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Reet 👋🏻💖 Hehe, there was a lot of interesting shells to like this time!! Those Chestnut Rock Shells are super cool little guys 😎 but I'm glad I put their second name up on screen; their main one is so hard to pronounce and type 😂 Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Anne 👋🏻🏖️ Oh yes, this video was almost called Nerites Heaven!! If only it was a Drupe Heaven... maybe I left the beach too soon, and more were waiting around the corner 🤔 Ohhhh you went shelling too! I hope you had an absolutely fabulous time 🤩 A moon snail to take home is awesome! Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Melissa 👋🏻💖 I do love shelling at a new beach...though sometimes I go to a new beach and there aren't any shells there!! You never know where the shells will be sometimes; they seem to favour some places, while skipping over others 😅 Ohh that last Sundial was a really nice find; it was my best from my entire time at Yeppoon! The olive shells were really wonderful; I just don't find olives like you do 😲 Ohhhh so you got a super nice Lettered Olive the other day!! Colour me a little green with envy 😍 it sounds like you had a great time out there!! Thank you so much for watching

G'day Bonnie Julien 👋🏻🏖️ Oh gosh, thank you for the kind words!! I'm glad that I could bring you to the beach in a virtual way 😁 Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Jeff 👋🏻🏖️ Hahaha, you'd have quite a collection of minis by the time the sun set! Oh wow, maybe you'd even discover some new, undescribed species with your microscope! I feel like I watched a story about a man doing just that...it was part of a compilation of sea snail stories that was put together some kind of institute in the USA. Ahhh I forget what it was now! Anyways, your story reminded me of it 😉 Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Nelly 👋🏻💖 I'm not sure if I'm correct with the name on that Venus shells, but it can be so far to find the proper names for them...I'm happy enough with this one for it! Yessss it was a wonderful afternoon at the beach 🏖️ very windy though, and the sun was going down, but I still went home with some very nice shells! Maybe I should have scooped up more of those minis, on well, but I really did collect as many nice Nerites as possible 😂 Hehe, of course, the big Bladder Moon Snail is going to be your favourite 🐌 it's such a nice one!! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

@@SandCoffeeRocks those nerites so pretty 😍

G’day Francesco 👋🏻🐌 It was really interesting to visit this bay with so many Nerites! Ohhh, wait, is the red mouth really only found on the antiquata subspecies?? I thought this was just a fresher and less faded shell 🐚 You must be right though; some pictures on the internet have Nerita polita with no colour, but some have yellow or red 🤔 I didn’t realise that the variance had its own name for the subspecies. Very cool, thank you for letting me know 🤩 Ahhhh Francesco, I’m not even finding the really amazing shells; there are BIG Lambis lambis to find up in northern Queensland, as well as different types of stombus and tonna. I will hopefully go there someday but it’s very far to drive 🏝️ Thanks for watching 🥰

High Maddie , about Nerita polita , what I can say for sure is , I have not found that vivid orange-red mouth in Seychelles and Zanzibar, but just a yellow stain, and this on hundreds of fresh shells . ( In Seychelles they're so abundant that you can find it served in the restaurants ) i cant wait you to visit those more northern beaches 😍 always compliments , just loveable ,👋❤️

Hey Francesco! I only just saw this. Wow, so the Polished Nerites are not so vivid in the main species? So interesting to know conclusively about this sub-species, thank you again for teaching me. Incredible, so these snails are eaten in Seychells? I know that a lot of countries eat snails and molluscs, but I thought it was mostly clams, bonnets, cowries, abalones, conches... I didn't think the small nerites would be enough of a meal! Very interesting, you have taught me something new once again!

@@SandCoffeeRocks High Maddie 👋 There's a third sub species of Nerita polita, (Nerita polita form rumphii) Recluz, 1841. inhabits the shores of the China sea for sure, it's usually smaller, frequently on the gray- black it can have spiral bandage of contrasting colours 👌 Bye Maddie 👋 Always compliments 😍❤️❤️❤️Francesco

G'day Trina 👋🏻💖 I've been good, though I was absolutely exhausted after the big trip to Yeppoon; I wondered if I didn't catch something to make me feel so tired...or maybe I'm not as young as I used to be?!! I didn't take many photos of the road trip or caravan park (no videos/vlogs at all) but there are some. I wasn't going to post them anywhere though, because they're a bit off topic 🤔 I did write a 'dear diary's type of thing in a Google Docs with some photos in it. It's not too personal, so I can maybe share a link later? Will see what I can do when I'm on the computer next, but it's a lot of reading, I went a bit nuts with it because I wanted to remember such a fun weekend for the rest of my life 🤣 I'll put it here later and you can decide if you want to look at it. Thanks for watching 🥰

@@SandCoffeeRocks take care of you. Sometimes you just need to unplug and do what you like most, without documentation❤️

G'day Danielle 👋🏻🐚 I think Yeppoon's beaches are hit or miss depending one which ones you visit. I visited one with basically nothing except the beautiful views of the mountainous cliffs, and I hit the jackpot on another that was just a few minutes down the road. This one at Cooee Bay...I think, depending on the various conditions, that it could either be empty if shells, or have the scattering of minis like it did this day. I feel like this beach in particular isn't picked over often...or maybe people just don't care much for Nerites 😅 Thanks for watching 🥰

@@SandCoffeeRocks we didn’t specify go to the beach for shelling, so that could be why. I just remember sand flats that went forever.

G'day Opabasic 👋🏻🐚 Ohhh I think you're right 🤩 a friend just sent me photos of a few feathered star fish that they'd found at a local beach; it's a good match for this red one (theirs were three individuals or black, orange, or brown). Very cool creatures! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Alison 👋🏻💖 The little Sundials were such a wonderful surprise; I was absolutely not expecting them to be a common type of shell at this beach 😲 I usually have terrible luck finding this shell species anywhere! Heheh and yess, behemoth is a glorious word for huge 🤩 that Toad Drupe is bigger than most of the Orange Drupes that I find! As for toads and beers, I think they makes a very flat pancake on the side of the word, but what would I know 😂! I had a wonderful time away; I really wish I had stayed for longer, but it's wonderful to be home: I missed Ninja more than I thought 😺 Thank you so much for watching 🥰

Also, loved the toad drupe and feather like thing.

G'day Trudy 👋🏻💖 Oh yes, half of the shells this time were new; I needed to do more research than I have in a while!! I'm still unsure about some of the IDs, but I feel pretty good about them for now. That Toad Drupe was awesome; I feel so lucky to have found one before I needed to leave 🐚!! I'm glad to hear that you have you email all sorted ☺️ I haven't sent you any picture or stories yet though; I've had a laundry list if things to do this week, and hadn't sent anything so far. I'm still trying to play catch-up with all of my message everywhere 😅 but I should be caught up soon. Thanks for watching 🥰

Hmmm, maybe a top shell or a turban? Definitely try the reverse image search on Google if you can 😉

G'day Brenda 👋🏻🏖️ It's a real stunner, right?!! Actually, those little black and white drupes were rather nice too!! Thank you so much for watching 🥰

G'day Leslie 👋🏻🏖️ The Propeller Arcs are a really cool kind of shell! Actually, a man at the shell show was telling me about a similar species that looked like Propeller Arcs, but were slightly rounder instead of rectangular 😲 maybe I'll find some in the future! As for the distance between Hervey Bay and Yeppoon, it's around four to five hours north by car at mostly highway speeds! From my home on the Sunshine Coast, the trip to Hervey Bay is about two and a half to three hours away, with Yeppoon being around 7 hours or so without rest stops. It definitely eats up a day! Thanks for watching 🥰

G'day Yohann 👋🏻🏖️ Oh wow, that was very nice of your friend to give you that mystery shell! I'm very sorry, but I don't know what it is, either!! Maybe you can take a picture of it with your phone, and then use the Google reverse image search to find out what it is? It's not always accurate, but it might help. Thank you so much for watching 🥰