THE POLICE TRIED TO ARREST ME FOR BEACH COMBING!? SHELL HUNTING FOR SEASHELLS IN AUSTRALIA! 

I’m impressed with your knowledge of shell names. Your video skills have improved immensely since you started. Your videos are the coolest!

From Virginia, USA, I like Checkered Bonnet Bay also. I so enjoy watching your videos. Maybe you'll get a chance to come and shell on the East Coast one day. It's so amazing how different a shell can look like from different countries. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us and thank Imogen too. LOL 🦋

The Ovula you scored is a Ovula costellata (not the more common Ovula ovula). Great find!

They could totally be waiting for someone who isn’t you to show up or do something. You just happened to be there..

Definitely a creepy situation to be in. I guess I'm pretty lucky here in small town Pennsylvania USA. Gotta say, I loved the cones today, even the ovula. So pretty.

I guess the fishery guys must’ve received a report of illegal fishing going on over there , I don’t think they were after you ! It’s so cute watching you talk to the shells 😊🥰

That pink ovula ovum is my favourite of all the shells that you found today. My second favourite is the captain cone. Did you stop collecting red coral pieces? I would love to see the jar that you filled with them.

Cool as. What's up with the Fisheries stalking you all day? My anxiety was high watching you watching them watching you 😂. Awkward. They should have told you why they were there so you could carry on without wondering . Anyway cool scores. Those micropiles where you pull up random handfuls remind me of lucky dips where you win a prize but you don't know what it is. And yup, checkered bonnet bay works for me. I thought of The Squirts Bay cos the sponges squirt water and also because it sounded funny 🤣 💩. See ya on your next post.

Knowing me I would go up to them and ask if there was a problem. 😁

Very epic!! Thats an amazing find..just one scoop!! Sweet!! 👍👍👍👍👍🥳🥳

Fabulous captain cone and pink ovula shell! Checkered Bonnet Bay sounds nice.

The Pink Ovula is amazing!!! Checkered Bonnet Bay is perfect. I'm in Missouri, once got in trouble for reeling in my 5 year old' son's line when he was done fishing (they considered that fishing!).

Canterbury, Kent. England, we'd be lucky to see any fisheries

Tell them to watch your videos! 😂 That pink shell is incredible!

The pink shell is amazing! I love all the finds. 🤗🐚🐚🐚🐚

Omg! The captain cone and that gorgeous sky🤗You’re super lucky mate! That bean cowry is the cutest shell ever! re: fisheries Here’s hoping ‘a stranger is a friend you haven’t yet met’ ✌🏽😇

I don't know what kind of snail lives in the checkered bonnets, but there must be quite a few down in Australia. I love those bonnets! Hope to have one someday.

I am in WA, no problem with fisheries here. Not sure about your state, but we can take 10kgs of shells off the beach each day.... It may be because your getting them out of the water that they were suss. Maybe they thought you would take live animals.

Yes, the bonnet with the small hole would be awesome! I’m still looking for a whole bonnet! That pink shell is awesome! I’ve never seen one before!

Watching from far away, Germany 🙃 Sadly I have no chance to go shelling without travelling to another country, so I appreciate your videos, your skills and love the rough sea. Sometimes, when you hold the camera in the water, the audio is a bit dump, but hey, who cares?

I appreciate that they're doing an important job to protect the wildlife, although they totally picked the wrong person to check on. Hopefully they checked out your channel. I'm in Wellington - New Zealand: we lived above the Marine Reserve and saw the fisheries people all the time giving advice to tourists or people who are unfamiliar with our regulations and monitoring naughty people.

im from Singapore. Soem areas are protected as they are coral reefs, and we can go there, but fisheries dont want us to take LIVE stuff. I find lost of empty cowrie shells there. It is called Pulau Rimau.

In SC/USA there are some barrier islands run by the DNR and its posted. You cant take anything from those beaches. Almost $500 fine but we have never been approached. That's crazy! I would have asked them " is there a problem?". Anyway great shell finds. Love the bonnets and I just want to sit in those micro shells with 5 gallon bucket!!

Love the pink shell and captain cone. I never get tired of seeing you pick up those beautiful bonnets. I live in SW Florida and have seldom seen people from the fisheries except on holidays.

Love the checkered bonnet bay!!!

I love watching your videos and I’ve learned so much about types of shells. Hello from sunny Arizona, USA!

Love the pink shell!

Sorry I haven't been on the hit thumbs up and give support. I've been taking care of my shih tzu since Sunday. The neighbors dog down the street came in my yard and attacked him in his own yard.thank God the dog couldn't get through my fence or deck rails. and now he has lost his eye 👁️. So now I'm having to catch up on all my shelling videos.🙁 🐢

Loved that pink ovula ovum! I don't know about any fisheries agents in the US, but a guy I watch who hunts for sea glass told us that it was illegal in Aruba and Bonaire (Carribean islands) to keep coral or shells! Weird, huh? What could you possibly have been doing that they thought was wrong? That's creepy, to be watched all day by two agents! Hugs from Virginia USA!

It’s not a shelcade video without a bonnet or cowerie find lol!

The cones were all beautiful. Loved the limits! Weird watching men!

Wow I loved the ovula. Great vid

You ok pal, can't wait to catch up on your videos, I have been working to hard, in work and as a momma and have been crashing out before videos 🤦 stay safe 😍🐚 sending love to you and your family from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 xx

Love all the shells!

I live in NE Florida, I think Checkered Bonnet Bay fits well. I love the Pink Ovula Ovum, it is gorgeous. Your captain Cone and Bonnets are great as well, thanks for taking me along.

I live in North Carolina, US. Your giant sand dollar find is pretty tiny compared to ours. I love watching you shell and especially listening to your accent.

Love love ❤️ the pink shell. It’s so exciting watching you shell. Thanks for another epic video.

Gorgeous shells today. Maybe those men would like to be in your video. Lol.

Wow that pink ovula ovum is very cool and the captain cone so pretty, thanks for sharing, those two guys were a little strange

Love your trips to the beach and the awesome shells you find but if you spend more time poking through the shell piles you pick out of the water if you are micro shelling and drop your handfulls in a bucket and bring out to the sand and really look you'd find more micros!!!

Love seeing your discoveries each time you go shelling. Most of my finds are from New Jersey and Massachusetts and California. Miss being able to walk the beaches. Live in Arizona and the beaches are too far away for me. Happy shelling.

You would think the fisheries guys would have more important things to do.

North Dakota here! We look forward to your daily videos!!

😱great finds 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

Dude you need a scoop!!

I'm from central Kentucky, the land of race horses and Churchill Downs.

😁😁 Going to storm here too !

Pretty shells 👌

We get harassed by Florida Wildlife nearly ever time we are in our boat!

The shells are beautiful

I love all your videos, you are so young and enthusiastic with all sea shells creatures. I can image it is just the way I was. Are you wearing glass due to the cold water? or due to some poisons creatures could be there? Some time I lose information due to my poor English. I love Australia too!

I went to Harvey Bay beach and was told by a passer bye that it is illegal to pick shell as Aboriginals say they are protected. I looked at them like they were crazy. Then laughed, kept looking.

When you found the operculum you missed a nice cowry.

My heart breaks to see you pick up so many urchin spines and just toss them to the side. I am trying to collect them and it takes ages to find any :(

p.s the pick shell is really pretty never seen on like it. 🐢💜

White drupe - Mancinella echinata (Blainville, 1832)

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i love to find a cone shell

I found a 10cm Tiger cowry teeth its broken it sucks and found it at the edge of the reef

At 18:57 at your foot was that a live ovula ovum

When I've been shelling in Florida no one has asked what I'm doing.

Anybody else see the black starfish at 2:35?

Texas, only if fishing, always want to see our fishing license.

I live in Iowa and I watch videos all the time. I did not see on this video where the cops came and I did not hear you say anything about them so I was wondering why were they bothering you

Beautiful shells, really enjoy watching you find the shells down under.

Sorry I make a mistake I wanted to say gloves instead of glases

Michigan. For illegal fishing and hunting out of season

I live in Nebraska and know my local fish & game officers. I have been checked for proper fishing license once, while fishing a remote creek in another state but that officer was very polite.

I think Australia has got to be the best place for micro shelling! So many colorfull tinies❣ As for the coppers, with the regime in place, they dont need a reason to spy/watch/follow someone. In this particular instance i'm going with fellow shelling enthusiasts drooling with envy that your shelling n they are not❣🥰😘 Edit to add: that pink one was the bomb!❣🥰😘😍

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Hi Jono! ( : I like the first deer shell! I would be thrilled, of course, I don't get anything close to shells like these here in CT! ( : Wow, what a gorgeous captain cone you found! It is perfect! ( : Sooo many beautiful shells! ( : That teeny cowry was sooo darn cute! ( : I thought the white spiny shell was a droop shell too! ( : That is really strange they would bother you! You literally come here everyday! Rude! ) : That is totally strange, unless they are mistaking you for someone else. Ya know? They weren't very good sleuths were they?! Lol! ) : Sorry you had to go through that! ) : They need to go bother someone who is actually bothering wildlife! ) : We will vouch for you! ( : I love the bonnets! ( : That pink ovular ovum shell is gorgeous! I love it sooo much! ( : Wow! Another amazing bonnet too! ( : I think checkered bonnet bay is awesome! ( : Such a gorgeous haul of shells today!! I love them all! ( :

No idea where your located, but just as an example of a heads up about shells & Fisheries Dept Inspectors watching you. If you were here in West Aussie, Fisheries Dept WA have a relatively new law, where it is still perfectly legal to collect non live shells from the beach, however, because they license commercial shell collectors, it’s now totally illegal to sell recreationally collected sea shells. I noticed for eg that you said you were “going to keep that one for you guys” of words to that effect. Perhaps that refers to a future intention to give away for free a shell or shells to one of your subscribers for eg - which is perfectly innocent. The problem for you would be for eg - if the person you gave away a shell or shells to that you collected recreationally, was later proven to be say a Patreon supporter of yours, who’s given you money at some point in the past, you potentially COULD be in serious trouble, if Fisheries could prove that, by for example interviewing the winner and taking a witness statement to the effect that yes they received a shell /s from you and yes they have given you money as a Patreon supporter. In effect shells have changed hands and also money has changed hands between the two people. Ergo that could be presented in court as a recreational shell collector using social media (RU-vid), and Patreon to try and thwart the Commercial Shell Collectors licensing act and its requirements to pay the hefty commercial license fee payable to Fisheries Dept, be a commercial skipper if diving from a boat was involved in collecting the shells and you’d need said boat to be in commercial survey as well and you’d need public liability insurance specifically indemnifying the Minister for Fisheries etc ie all the costs and regulations of the Commercial shell collectors licensing act. Details of those new laws in this article. www.abc.net.au/radio/kimberley/programs/breakfast/sell-shells/11524356 And likely you won’t be the only one who various Fisheries and AMSA are likely targeting either. There’s recently a proliferation of social media influencers with RU-vid channels, doing for example old yacht restorations with Patreon supporters from their RU-vid channel contributing donations regularly towards the cost of materials and equipments towards the yacht restoration. Once the vessel is completed they sail away and start inviting their best Patreon supporters to come and spend a week aboard their newly restored yacht. But unbeknownst to them, similar situation applies where under the regulated charter industry, where money has changed hands and a boat trip then ensues, this is the very legal definition of “an illegal charter” under the Act. The vessel isn’t in ocean going commercial survey, the skipper isn’t commercially qualified, he doesn’t hold a charter license etc etc. Only recently the “Cruising Kiwis” were boarded in WA waters by Fisheries Inspector and DPAW Wildlife Officer and questioned after receiving a Miranda warning, because commercial whale shark tour operators observed and reported their cat vessel with a large group of invited guests out watching and swimming / interacting with the whale sharks off Ningaloo reef at Exmouth. If even ONE of those invited “non paying guests” could have been shown to have been one of their Patreon supporters where there’s a transaction record of money changing hands, then they could have been charged with running illegal charters again on an unsurveyed boat with no license and no skippers ticket etc. Back to your shell collecting, if you were ever convicted of selling recreationally collected shells - I believe the Max fine is up to $10,000 &/or 12 months in jail. So it’s as well to be 100% fully informed about the technicalities involved once RU-vid and Patreon becomes involved. In fact it’s possible depending on what you publish in your video that copies could be downloaded and presented in court as evidence against you - were you for eg to say something seemingly innocent like “there’s are the give away shells I’m just posting away to my Patreon supporter Fred Bloggs who won the free giveaway shells competition by correctly identifying the shell I nominated in last weeks video” The mention of sending shells to someone who paid you $ via Patreon could get you convicted, using your own video as the evidence against you. If you name the person then the Fisheries guys would know who to go and interview to get a witness statement and gather the records by subpoena of the $ he paid to you through Patreon, and a statement that he or she received a parcel in the mail from you containing recreationally collected sea shells. I’m just giving you a possible heads up if why you’re being watched. It’s possible those Fisheries dudes have had a licensed shell collector who’s watched your videos make a complaint about you “selling shells and disguising payment as unrelated Patreon support” IF they feel aggrieved that you are collecting shells that they could legally have collected to sell. I’m just giving you the heads up as yo what might be behind their behaviour - since I’m retired from doing essentially the same job as them. All these people with RU-vid channels who think the laws don’t apply to them while filming are in for a rude shock because regulatory authorities are watching with keen interest the proliferation of unlicensed businesses springing up on RU-vid now. I see it every day, prospectors out using metal detectors to look for gold, they have an international audience who might be interested in our native wildlife, so they film their interactions with for example say a “thorny devil” let’s say, which is perfectly legal. But there’s always that one wanna be Harry Butler type who then proceeds to pick the thorny devil up to film it in closeup on their hand. Oops, “taking protected wildlife” (to have in one’s possession” - that will be a $10,000 Wildlife Act offence fine, thank you very much. The fact you let it go after the filming is immaterial, if you touched it your guilty. So there’s some very big wake up calls coming to some of these Alby Mangles types of RU-vid Adventurers the moment they cross that legal line, even tho it might never have occurred to them that technically they are breaking the law. 2 Fisheries Officers don’t expend the $ to watch you picking up shells without a reason, & most likely someone has reported you and your now a person of interest and under observation. If someone has reported you, and those guys DONT investigate to either prove or disprove the claims made and the media got hold of it, they could lose their jobs for NOT investigating if that makes sense, so you should take heed of the clue that you have unwittingly become “a person of interest” to them for whatever reason and by whatever means. Old saying “where there’s smoke there’s fire”, so you weren’t being observed just by pure coincidence. 😉👍

Maybe some karen called in that you were using a camera on the beach to film people and the cops were sick of dealing with her so they sent fisheries???? Idk im reaching i know

Think you could have explained bout your videos and u know u can't take anything live. They might have stopped eyeing u up!