I have the beach to myself. Sanibel Island seashells broke my shell bag! 

A lot of people would not find looking for shells and walking very fun. This takes me back to my high school days and other times when I visited my parents at Sanibel and would just spend hours and hours looking for shells. I have five shell mirrors, a shell jewelry box, and two shell photo frames that I made from shells out there. I'm so weird, because I used to go out there totally by myself and stay out there for hours and hours, head down for so long, I almost passed out from the sun, heat and overuse of my searching eyes. This is something so many people do not know about me. I can walk and stroll the same area over and over and over and over again for years and never get bored, and just lose myself and stay out there until my mind is completely emptied. So many people would see this as "wasted" time, but that's the kind of thing that I really love to do, walk and look, silently walk, look at nature's beauty, and go on and on and on until I am mentally and physically exhausted. What a wonderful life I've lived.

Just found you…..never knew watching someone collect shells could be so fascinating! ❤

I love how you said that the crown conch was lovingly worn down and has been hugged by the beach a few times. What a great description!

Hello from a local Southwest Floridian. Love to see someone else showing the beauty of our area.

You are at my happy place ! What a Mother’s Day!!

What a wonderful haul of beautiful shells. Thanks for taking us along Sharmon.

That was an insanely good shelling day. I loved it! So many good finds!

Holy cow you scored! Fantastic day at the beach! Thanks for taking us along! 😊

Wow, Sanibel-Captiva is one of my favorite places on the planet. I have bins of shells from hours and hours of hunting. You really found the Mother Lode! Thanks for sharing. I am totally missing my yearly visit!

Another 'similarity' to claim as separated sisters - I broke my shelling bag on my first shelling trip..... yeah, I had to have everything I saw..

Glad to see that the greenery on the island is starting to come back.

Thanks for the best Mother’s Day trip!

Such beautiful shells! The lightning whelks were crazy! I have to say, the last egg cockle was gorgeous!!! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful day!! ❤

Yes, Sanibel please! I think this must be what shelling on Sanibel in days long past must have been like. I’m glad you got to enjoy it and share it with us. Fantastic shell haul!

How I would love nothing more than to take a beach stroll with you and find these beautiful treasures! I just love the way you know all the names of these shells and share your knowledge with us!

I figured out why I like your channel so much! You are so knowledgeable and interesting and I've loved seashells for over 40 years! The icing on the cake is your genuine excitement combined with a great voice. Keep them coming. If I ever get back to the beach I won't be able to sit still!

That was so much fun! Thank you for taking us along for the ride!!!

My goodness, what amazing shells. The lighting whelkes, Pear whelkes. My favorite was the banned tulips and the true tulips. Love the meraxs.Looks like you had an amazing day shelling. Dont get me wrong, i really enjoy all the shells and the live critters. Thank you for taking the time to share your videos with us. Have a great day. 28:32

I first went to Sanibel in the summer of 1968. My aunt and uncle introduced me to "the island"we stayed at the West wind inn. I went to the island for my hunnymoon. I first went when I was 11 we watched the trees planted at the West wind. As the years went by we took our son and daughter there. I am now 66 years old. I breaks my heart to see the devietation. It can be restored but to me it will never be the same. I look at my shells and think of all my special family times and there are no words to express how I feel. It is a dream to return but I was injured while nursing and I don't think I can tolerate the trip. It is a precious special place to be treasured and appreciated. I want to go back 1time before Im gone if my prayers are answered I will ❤

Another beautiful day you captured. Again, really enjoyed joining you on this walk! Such glorious shells! Just breathtaking 💋

Wow the ocean was extremely generous today! I can’t believe all those lightning welks ! And that tulip in red ! Wow ! Such a good day and I can completely understand how you broke your bag lol 😂! Thanks for the awesome day at the beach! ❤

You are wonderful and your excitement contagious. I'll be trying out your recommended non acid acid today for shell cleaning. Thank you for your knowledge and entertainment!

I love walking the beach for shells. I did my bathroom wall in sea shells just the one wall. It was so pleasing, and it was also very therapeutic.

So many beautiful shells!! Thank you for this calming video of the ocean and the shells!

What beautiful shells you got today! I’m sorry about your shell bag but you still managed to get a lot of shells. Thank you for a nice, peaceful video. Happy Mother’s Day! ❤️🐚💐

What an epic shelling day !! Im catching up starting at the bottom of list on your videos 😊. Im looking forward to today’s Sunday post !

Hi Sharmon, Part 2 of your adventure didn't disappoint! It was a whelk bonanza! I think this haul is the highest number of shells you've ever taken home. Or am I wrong? I'm so happy to see that Sanibel is bouncing back. Nature is so resilient. Thank you for taking us with you on this epic trip! I wish you a wonderful week. Big hug and lots of love, xoxo ❤️, Ilona

What an awesome day!! Love all the whelks!!! The true tulips were awesome!!! Have a great week!! See you Sunday! XOXO

Great day for lighting whelks!I had a great day for olives last week here in Garden City! They were everywhere! Had a blast!

That was so much fun!! ❤️ Can't wait till next week!!

When grouped the lightning welks resembled bouquets-ocean bouquets. I love that! Thanks from Colorado.

Paper figs are my favorite! I always feel they are natures cross stitch! 😋😋😋

Wow! Whelk fever! As always, you make such lovely finds. Nice to see Sanibel making a recovery.

Living here in SW Florida, I love combing the beach for shells. Christmas 7 years ago, my boyfriend and I walked the beach on Christmas morning. I told him, “Pick up only the whole shells, not the broken ones.” Then he went down on his knee and proposed.

Another wonderful trip to the beach or continuation thereof! Such wonderful shells collected!

I think I've said before, but I just love your voice overs! You do s great job of conveying the original reactions and also providing fun info.

Beautiful shells. Especially the lighting welks and the banded tulips

What a trip! So many beautiful shells! Happy shelling 🐚!

Your luck at finding so many hinged shells amazes me! The hinged spiny jewel box in the intro makes me drool every week!

Thank you for another great video! I can’t believe how many shells there were!

Absolutely love your channel I'm so glad I came across it. Thank you so much for posting! I have pretty bad anxiety due to my extra dopamine that I have thanks to my DiGeorge syndrome and I love watching your videos to help calm my anxiety down whenever I'm having a super anxious day which is just about everyday

Nice, big banded tulip and it had such unique coloring in my opinion.

New subscriber!!😁 Thanks so much for that beach time!!! I'm in Western PA, where it was in the 60s today. I prefer it to be 85 and up (it feels like Mother Nature is giving me a nice warm hug!!! 🧡) I also enjoyed learning about all of the sea shells and critters! I have so many of those shells in my collection. It was nice to learn their names & a little bit about them. Thx again!! 🪸 🐚

So awesome as always!!

Wow! That was the best shell day I've ever seen!!

I love those lightning whelks. They are my favorite shells. They were gorgeous. 😊💗

This is amazing. I have to add this to my bucket list.

Beautiful day on the beach. Thank you ❤

Looks like a great day shelling! It's on my bucket list to come to Florida to shell!!

Amazing video thanks. Stay lifted

WOW!! That was a wonderful day shelling, my dream day, thank you so much for sharing

Sorting my shells from jars to favourite box , sadly I don’t remember where I found them I just know it called me from Australia 🇦🇺, east coast . Can be living and poisonous. Just love your life and journey . Am 56 have collected from a child . Found prettified shells too xx your an amazing teacher xx

I am not 100% sure because you did not turn the skull thing over, but the back of it looks like what the shops in Galveston call a Crucifix fish because one side looks like Jesus on the Cross. I found a lot of those in Galveston when I was a kid, they are a fish skull, but I can't remember what type fish.

Thanks for your videos! Love it! I found some really cool stuff at blind pass. ❤🐚

Wow, I have a hard time, seeing your videos, make me feel so much better, thank you 🙏🙏😊❤❤❤❤

I love, love, love seashells! And rocks, and fossils, earth's treasures.

I’m waiting for the commercial to be done. Can’t wait to see the results of the day😊

Wow..wonderful show stopper treasures ! Epic ! Thank you ❤

WOW! What a trip!!

Wow! What an amazing day. Your videos never disappoint, specially for those of us that live several hours away from the beach. That one pear welk that was all black, reminds me a lot of the shells I find here in North Carolina.

"It was insanity "! LOL ! I just love watching your videos! ❤

Thank you for sharing your wonderful adventure which thanks to you also became mine! ❤

Wonderful variety, lovely ❤❤❤

What a great experience at Sanibel!

Wow! That was a great day at SI! Don't feel bad. A big whole red true tulip is still on my bucket list too. I've found some faded ones, but not a nice big red one. Can't wait for the Kice video! Looks like it won't be next week.😢 Thanks Sharmon! xxoo

What a day! So awesome.

YAY! "Let's go to the beach 🎶 🎶 " ⛱️ 🐚 😎

Another beautiful video with wonderful shells 😊.

Bubble-Blowin'-Box-Crab..... great stuff!

Omg that box crab! 😂 blowing bubbles! Wowzers with the beautiful true tulips 😍what a perfect day at the beach!

My family and I are going for the first time this year What actual beach is best for shelling. It’s our first time 💜🙌

Happy Mother's Day, Sharmon! What a fantastic day of shelling. Oh you must have been beside yourself with all those wonderful finds. I was excited for you just watching the video. So many beautiful things that I would have had trouble figuring out a favorite. I think my favorite for this trip was that great big blue-colored banded tulip. That first buttercup lucine that was so yellow was incredible as was the yellowish giant cockle. If I ever get to come to Florida, I will need 2 shells bags with reinforced straps! I totally enjoyed the 2 cute crabs you filmed too. I happen to think that crabs are very cute. Glad you had such a wonderful time.😊

Watching this makes me need to visit Sanibel soon!

Your excitement is great..what a great day of shelling

Love that calico clam! Definitely on my bucket list

How awesome! Hope I can get down there soon!

My sister and I had Sanibel Island beach all to ourselves this March. We had a similar experience shelling. It was beyond amazing!

This shelling was epic, especially for April!

😊 awesome day, wish i was there too.... It's just not fair... Thanks for letting us tag along

So fun thank you for sharing

Beautiful shelling day 🐚🐌🐕🌻🥰

Oh my word! When you went to pick up that banded tulip I was like wow it’s huge lol !! Sorry to blow this up with comments im just excited for you lol so many lighting welks!! So many pretties 😮❤

I love the beach and ocean. Cant wait to go🎉

I’m so so jealous of ALL those paper figs!!!! That was one of the shells that I most wanted to find when I went to Florida that I didn’t ever find any. Next time! I’m glad to see that Sanibel and Ft Myers Beach are slowly making recovery progress. Hopefully I will get back there soon. Great video!

Wonderful shell finds 😱😱😱🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖

As I say, it’s always exciting to come with you on your beach trip. I love the true tulips special the red ones. I look forward to next week I am excited to see what you find of the tiny ones, I love that too ❣️❤🩶🩵

You always get lucky with finding such nice shells! I want to go to Sanibel island so bad!

I went to caladesi after a high winter windy day.. and filled 2 bags! I found 12 pairs of sunglasses that day! It's an inexpensive ferry ride over there. Go on a cold windy day and you'll have it all to yourself. Layer up!

Thank you so much for this video it was wonderful.

That mask that you found looks like the one from "finding Nemo"! 😂

That was such a neat haul that makes for a wonderful Mother's Day. Sorry your shell bag broke hopefully your new one will work better for you

Love from Minnesota ❤

Hope to see more great finds in your Etsy store.

What a great day! I’m so jealous!!

Fantastic day at the beach Sharmon!

Happy Mother's Day!!

I love hunting for sea shells, but wow, I’ve never seen some of those here! I love that you know the names, I wish I could hunt with you, and learn all the names, too! I have about 1000 sand dollars from Coronado Island, and buckets and buckets of shells I can’t identify, but love all the same! The colors and patterns really excite me! 🐚

Wow! That’s nuts and I’m very jealous! 😊

Great day at the beach!

Thanks!