The MAINE winter SHELLING EXPERIENCE you never knew you needed!!! 

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I appreciate the great feedback - I always try to make these experiences as immersive as possible! Thanks for watching!

It's quite cold, but always beautiful! Thanks for watching!

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SWF Beach life is awesome

Thank you as always for watching, shell friend!

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Maine is great stop for shelling! Thanks for watching!

Oh wow this is such great feedback. I do work quite hard to make my content a different type of shelling experience, so I appreciate your kind observations. Thank you so much for watching!

Interestingly I see similar comments regarding picking up some of the older whelks, but I adore them so much! 💛 Thanks for watching, shell friend!

Those are some of my favorites here in Maine too! Thanks for watching!

Hello friend! I too have always found the history of human interaction with shells, amazing! Love that you are in enjoying watching, in 4K of course!

Blues are purples are part of the color palette in Maine! 💙💜 Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the great feedback, friend! Thanks also, for watching!

Northern Moon Snails can get HUGE! It's also really cool that they are relatively common on Maine beaches. Thanks for watching!

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Hi friend, thank you for the great feedback. I always try to recreate the feelings of beauty and solitude I experience while hiking by the ocean, for the viewers of this channel! The Common Sand dollars, and found fairly readily throughout northern New England - sometimes they wash up in large amounts. Saco Bay is about 1 hour or so north of Plum Island, Mass :) Thanks for watching!

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A good eye and a lot of walking, lol! Thanks for watching!

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Hi shell friend! I have found that Northern Moon Snails have all sorts of different colors on the outside of the shell, and in the aperture. Shell color is dependent upon the diet of the mollusc while alive, and the resting conditions in which the shell sits after dying. It's always a sweet surprise when finding them washed up! Thanks so much for watching.

Hi shell friend! This is such amazing anecdotal information! As you highlighted, Northern Moon's and Deep Sea Scallops are super rare finds in NC, so totally agree those must have been dredged locally in offshore in colder water away from the Gulf Stream. This area is so intriguing because of the overlap of cold water and warm water currents! Thanks as always for watching and providing your insight!

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Hi friend! I always try to film details as best possible when out in the field, sometimes the elements crush my attempts, lol! Thank you for coming along, and hope to see you on future adventures!

I try to feature sand dollars when I come across them because I know so many love them, though I don't personally collect them 🤍 Thank you so much for watching!

Hi! Yuki is doing very well, but she was diagnosed with an auto immune disorder last year, and she occasionally has flare ups that need to be managed. Additionally, many of the places I have been traveling to shell at either don't allow dogs, or will frequently have dogs off leash. I always have Yuki on a lead, but she can a bit reactive with other dogs, so I have to be careful where I bring her. I will definitely have her out on more adventures soon though - stay tuned! Woof! Thanks for watching!

Great question re: wedding shells! I can never be entirely sure how these shells arrive on the beach, but in general if a shell that is not native to the area washes up it's highly likely it was used somewhat locally in a wedding or beach ceremony and then gets moved around by the tides/currents until it washes up. This cone top was a bit anomalous - I think it's a cone from the Indo-Pacific region, so this is even greater potential evidence that it came from such an event, but again not totally certain! I don't usually find "wedding shells" in Maine, lol. Thanks for watching!

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Hi! Pretty much any beach in Maine will provide potential shell collecting opportunities, but obviously going at low tide and finding places with less people will always be the best way to go if possible. If in Portland, the Casco Bay islands offer great spots to find shells and sea glass while enjoying beautiful views. Closer to Bar Harbor, and north of there, Lobster harbors can be great places to beach-comb. This is a pretty good article: www.visitmaine.net/beachcombing-beaches-in-maine/ Thanks for watching!

There are literally THOUSANDS of species of sand dollars. Many are hard to distinguish from each other so they get grouped into general categories locally based on appearance. The prevalent ones in Maine are just generically called “common sand dollars”. The ones with open slots (lanules) include keyhole and arrowhead by locals. I, too, was surprised he left those beauties on the beach and instead collected some beat up whelks. To each his own

This is a Common Sand dollar, which is found "commonly" in Northern New England. Key hole sand dollars are found south of New England in warmer waters. Thanks for watching!