Should I charter a private boat? Exploring Florida by island hopping and snorkeling for treasures! 

We had a famous man in Australia who died from a stingray bite. Be careful please.

What a wonderful treat this adventure was with Captain Jenni ! I loved seeing all the live critters especially the cute little stingrays ! Thank you for sharing with us your fantastic day ! 🏖️🐠🐋🐬

I deleted an earlier comment asking about sting rays when you were in the water before Cayo Costa, lol! They’re very cool animals, but that barb is quite painful-helpful tip: if you ever get tagged, put the offended area in HOT water, the kind that you think you initially can’t stand, for 20 minutes to a half an hour, changing the water to keep it hot as necessary. I got tagged a couple of years ago, and paid for the doc-in-a-box to literally put my foot in a bucket of hot water. Monitor for infection, but otherwise, you should be good. Cheers, and thanks for the beach break each week!

The vets and vet techs at CROW are amazing. I just recently donated money to them. They save and rehab all wild life and they are in need of new outside flight cages for all sorts of birds.

Love seeing the live critters. All the shells are beautiful. It is always a treat to learn new things watching your shelling videos. Thank you for sharing all the different things in your videos. Just enjoy it all. Thank you for helping me relax. Have a great day.

What an amazing adventure. Beauty at every turn! Absolutely love learning from you! Every video there is something new to learn! What a treat this was! Thank you so much for taking us! 🪸🌴💕

If you come across a mask that doesn’t do as much damage to your hair as much as most masks - could you post the recommendations here? I have a sleeve for mine but I constantly break my hair off. Gonna try a buff or goggles and nose clip - lol Great video as always Chamin We love your adventures!

Thank you for taking us snorkeling this week! The manatees and sting rays were beautiful to see! ❤️🐚

Hi Sharmon... been waiting up for this one ! :).. Now..... I can go watch it in bed ! Comments will follow ! Yaayyyyy

I lovvveee our 32 minutes with you every Sunday. You are so lucky you get to do this so often.

Amazing adventure Ms. Sharmon....wow the view is spectacular 👌 I am planning on visiting soon...

Oh, another amazing excursion....thank you and Captain Jenni. It is always amazing to see critters in their own environment. And yes, you were getting wrinkly😊. ❣️🦋❣️🐚🐚🐚🌊🌈🥰

According to my screen, I was the 777 person to like this video. How neat. Love your videos. Started watching about 2 months ago. Watching you helped me identify some shells I bought at a Dollar Store--awesome! God bless you.

Absolutely fantastic adventure! Thank you for sharing something a bit different this week ❤

Been to Cayo Costa once. Hope to get down there again this Summer. (I live up by AMI and LBK). Love your videos! See ya on the beach!

I love all the rough scallops the pretty colors that they come in OMG that orange was beautiful

I love manatees. I was fortunate to swim with the manatees in Crystal River. It was the best experience ever.

I was at our beaches in Oregon yesterday! Love some beach time!

Turquoise water in Costa Coya so gorgeous!! what a great adventure im sure you're meeting and learning with so many different sorts of people all who love the outdoors in FL !!! Whst a great way to network with with people who love nature in FL just as much as you do Sharmon!! Thank-you so much for sharing 💙🩵🩶🤍 it's Been 50° with rain here in northern Maine for all of June practically so im def living vicaroously lol cross your fingers for us maybe the weather will warm up before end of June lol!! Jeez lolol

I love SW FLA, south of Sarasota is nothing but the tropics! Although we were on Longboat key this past week because Englewood beach condos are still repairing from hurricane Ian but manatees were swimming offshore of the beach! Unbelievable being from Charlotte county the manatee were just within swimming distance but I was telling everyone not to touch them

This was a great trip! Thank you for taking us along!!

What a wonderful day! Lots of beautiful creatures this time ! That definitely was a shark ! Small one but none the less ! That horse conch was fabulous! To bad it was inhabited lol !! Hopefully you’ll find another one one day soon !

Great adventure!! Thank you for sharing.

Love watching all of the shells. I want to bring them all home with me. Lol

How about we all go....... 😊

Fun adventure!! Have a great week. See you Sunday! XOXO

Those large lightning Whelks are so cool! Your private boat trip sounds amazing. It so fun to see the large manatees. They are huge, unusual animals - and are so much fun to see in the wild. The turtle tracks were also very interesting. Thank you for sharing your trip with us! Love your videos.

What a FANTASTIC adventure I just went on with you! WOW!! Thank you so much beach friend! The little doves in the sand dollars are pretty awesome aren't they? Can't wait for your next video!

Thank you for the adventure.see you next sunday!!

I love snorkeling! My first experience was in Jamaica. Beautiful fish and sea turtles! Unfortunately, I ran into a swarm of baby jellyfish, and my legs were stung pretty badly. They did warn us about them, but I didn't see them until too late. I still have scars on my legs to this day, and it happened about 40 years ago! Still, though, it was a great vacation!

I love that you are showing all the animals and critters ❤

This is a beautiful video. I like seeing the underwater filming. I was stung by a stingray. The barbed stinger punctured though my leather tennis shoe and into the inner middle of my foot. I was in Mexico. It was extremely painful. I was treated at the local Red Cross. They injected me for the pain and a antibiotic. They bled it out a bit to clean it. A few days later back in the States I had a full blown infection that required cutting and drawing out some of the infection I was also given antibiotics. 🐌🐚🌻🐶🐕🥰

A great trip for your show today. Just beautiful. The gulf is so nice. I miss the gentle waves. The Atlantic is colder. Not as many shells, but then, you can get alot of micro fossils on the riverside of the east coast.

So can not wait to move to Florida. Just waiting on my mom to retire. Then the whole family is moving down. 😊

Hey you somehow find all the great shells how!

Fabulous day! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Looks like a wonderful day, thanks for sharing!

I got barbed by a sandray about two years ago in June. It was extremely painful. When I finally went to the dr he sliced the wound open and pulled the barb fragment out of my heel. It was worse than a jelly fish sting. I will wear thick soled water shoes and shuffle from now on.

Great video! Different and yet the same. How long approx do you soak sand dollars in hydrogen peroxide?

Hello Beach Angel and all you beach lovers out there! Have you ever seen a green-eyed Indian, Angel? Mine are Kelly green because I want to hitch a ride, too! We used to have a seaworthy craft when I was a kid, but Daddy sold it after the Great Boat Disaster. I'll share that some other time. We used to hang out at Crystal River in the winter and there were so many manatees there! They still come up the spring run and into the spring's boil at Manatee Spring State Park, not too far from you. Of course, the park's personnel make everyone get out of the water when manatees are visiting. You know, I'm sure, that you can look through a swim mask held just under the surface of the water to make the underwater world more visible. So wonderful to be out on a boat on this beautiful early summer day! What a blessing it is to be able to catch a ride in return for free advertising! That's so amazing to see the turtle tracks! Hope nobody bother the nest. I only wish Steve Irwin had respected a stingray's boundaries. So sad that the world lost his enthusiasm and knowledge of the natural world! Very glad you're more cautious that than, dear Angel! Life is good when you're shelling on a sunny day. I'm enjoying the sound of your voice, of course, but the sound of the waves lapping at the sand is lovely, too. So relaxing. I love to see your fingertips, all raisined by the water. Ah, Beach Time! My blood pressure just dropped fifteen points! I'm glad you remembered about the doves! They make finding a broken sand dollar worthwhile. We used to have pet gophers when I was a kid! The town of St. Andrews, now part of Panama City, used to have gopher races on the Marina when I was young. They'd have a Biggest Gopher Contest, too, which was a lot of fun. Gophers dig big holes with lots of side rooms, most of which provide shelter for rats, possums, smaller gophers and rattlesnakes. These holes provide vital bolt holes in a wildfire, saving lots of little lives. My Grandpa, ever the wild Indian, enjoyed a good pot of gopher stew when he could catch one. Wow, those sponges are amazing! This is so wonderful, seeing you explore by snorkel! It takes me back to living on the Island as a girl, spending more of my days in the water than out! I'm so happy for you to have this amazing experience! Only a teeny weeny bit green-eyed! Thank you for taking us along! What a wonderful way to spend an evening! Much love from Tennessee! I'll have to post a video of hunting for salamanders in a mountain stream. Have a great week, everybody! ReBecca, The Lost Mermaid

So much fun! Thank you for the trip!

Cayo Costa is amazing! One of the best shelling experiences of my life was when we took a charter there. Thanks for the heads up for your captain. I’ll be sure to bookmark this video for future trips. 👍🏻❤️

As always what a wonderful, beautiful and relaxing video. This may have been one of my favorites. Thank you.

Oh yeah, a day boating around looks ideal.

Looks like so much fun! Some day I have to make it to Florida!

I'm down in Mexico Beach and I saw a manatee! I also got to see 2 turtles. All 3 were in different locations. It has been so rough in the ocean so most shells are broken but that didn't stop me from going hunting for shells. We have 10 more days before we go back to TN. Enjoy your videos!

Great trip! Thanks for sharing such a fun trip!. When have a minute, take a careful look at the grass around the big live horse conch (29.21). I'm not sure, but maybe see a pipefish on the grass or an upside-down seahorse. .Love spending time at the beach with you! Janine

Loved this adventure. If I have time while I am there in Sept might just check out a tour. Love those manatees and the turtle tracks. I'm like you, can't really see good with rhe red light so I just stick to day shelling during turtle season. Thanks for taking us on this adventure. Lovely!! Have a great week!

This would be so much fun to do! Thank you for bringing us along as we experiece this adventure along with the veiws education alo g the way is priceless!

Brilliant video. Hi to Jenny too. I love the tale of the island lady,! I love seeing the manatees. Echoing others, please keep away from the stingrays…Steve Irwin and all that. What an experience. Stay safe xx

Thank you for the video.

Thank you for taking us along on this trip...I would absolutely love to do something like this....Will add to my list of things to do...

why didnt you stick your camera in the water to see the shark/tarpin? Thos little fish were very cool! so were the stingrays❤

Beautiful shells 😊.

Wonderful indeed!

What a fun-filled video thank you❤

Wonderful video and great advice as alwys! You always do such a great job with your videos. Love the footage on the manatees and the underwater shelling footage also. Thank you for sharing your adventures!

Turtle season

How big do the buttercup leucine get ?

I’ve been awol for a little while and, wow, what a way to catch up on your shelling adventures! Thank you for bringing us along; what an amazing day. Wish I was there, but have enjoyed being about 1700 miles NE of you right now. ☺️

Alas. It's so good to see shells! I can't WAIT for this weather pattern to change!!! I did walk HI at neg low tide the other night and got to see some cool live critters, but only saw 1 good LW and some crab shells at the very north end. Beautiful live horse conch! The water there was really pretty. Reminds me of Lido Key. My cousin from St Louis is in St Pete and I'm taking her to Lido on Wed. Hope the weather is decent. Thanks Sharmon! xxoo

Wow that was incredible and how beautiful too x

@19:12 looks like a shark (years ago, I was an avid scuba diver in Southern CA; I had extensive shark training as they are abundant out here at certain times). Anyway, sharks also love to eat rays. As you have rays close to the shoreline, the sharks will follow them in. Be careful in that water!

Our local hospital gets a lot of stingwray injurys every year. Everyone tells how extremely painful it is! The effects of the barb injury last a long time. It is one creature I am afraid of. Before descending the ladder on our boat, to get into the water, I always carry a handful of small shells that I toss out in the water, under the ladder area, to scare any wrays away, before I get in. Of course we also do the stingwray shuffle 😊

Oh, wow, what a magnificent day made even better by strolling along the beach collecting sea gems 😎 🐚 Giant thanks, Sharmon.

Wow what an amazing day!!! ❤thanks for sharing her info.. I have a bday in Aug I think that is a wonderful trip 😊

Thank you so much for taking us with you, on this fantastic adventure, would love to see more if possible x

It is so very awesome that you are doing the master naturalist program. That program is different and amazing everywhere.

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Hi, do you find sun dollars and angel wins all the time? Do I can find some this May in Fort Mayers?

Man do I have a lot of catching up to do with your videos LOL. Interestingly I've seen stingrays right up by the surf in the wintertime as well (perhaps that was just an oddball). Agreed that the scenery is amazing! Happy shelling :)

My anxiety went through the roof once you got into the water and esp snorkeling. There's no way in hell is ever enter water where sea creatures live. I won't even go into a lake and I'm surrounded by lakes here in Washington State. I'll beach comb with you.. But you should put a warning your going into the water...

sooooooo beautiful!

How much does it cost

What a great adventure.

1. I have a question that isn't exactly about this video, but...is there somewhere to see a listing of all your videos in date order? When I look on RU-vid, they're not in order at all. 2. I don't get notified in any way when you've posted a new one...am I missing something? 3. I recently came home from beachcombing on several beaches in Normandy, France. Had to buy another suitcase for the 27 pounds of shells I brought home!! 4. I ordered some of the "safe" HCL and it's supposed to be here day after tomorrow!! Can't wait to try it!! 5. Thank you for all your wonderful videos.

Hi Sharmon, my dear beach friend. Wow, what a beautiful day at the beach and in and on the water! Captain Jenni really did her best to give you and us a wonderful experience! I really love manatees. They are such gentle giants. It's so sad to see that they can get horrible wounds due to boat propellers. I wish that people would be more careful. Not only for the manatees, but all the wildlife. I'm sorry I didn't comment on the last two videos. Unfortunately, my health problems got worse. I now have cardiac issues as well. So, I was admitted to the hospital for it. Your videos are really my escape from all that's going on. And I'm so thankful that I found your channel a few years ago. Your videos really are the highlight of my week. I love your enthusiasm and your sharing of knowledge. Thank you so much for all you do. It's more than you'll ever now. ❤ Have a wonderful week. I hope you have some great adventures, with lovely weather and in good health. Big hug and lots of love, xoxo ❤️, Ilona

Awesome video! Beautiful areas makes me want to visit again

One thing hun, you pronounced Cayo Costa wrong.

Thank you so kindly for sharing your wonderful video of you snorkeling. Unfortunately in Canada my mask and snorkel gets used in my kitchen while cutting up lots of onions for pickles. However it is ready at the drop of a hat for a trip to Florida. On my bucket list to come down and go shelling in a Beautiful motorhome.

What Marina did you leave out of?

Thanks!

fun trip

Awesome, thank you!!❤

Sharks aren't down there?

You inspired me to go seashell hunting in Kuwait

Thanks!