The Shell Nuts - Episode 10 - Amazing day of Florida West Coast shelling on Marco Island south beach 

Thank you for the kind words. It's really appreciated. :) We're happy you enjoyed the video. Have a great day also!

Hi Kathy! Thanks for stopping by. We hope you and Steve are doing well. You better come visit us soon! :) We need to help you collect some more shells. :) The 2nd season has finally arrived. We're starting it today! Hope you enjoy and we hope to see you again very soon. :)

Thank you for stopping by TN Nana and for the kind words! We really appreciate it!

Thank you for finding us! We appreciate having you aboard and for your kind words here. Season 2 has finally arrived and we're starting it today so we hope you enjoy these new upcoming videos also!

Thank you Lisa. Much appreciated!

Thank you Diane! We agree with you...that live gaudy nautica was amazing. Probably the prettiest we've ever seen. Thanks for tuning in! We appreciate it. :)

The least we can do! We love 'em also! :)

Thank you for tuning in and for your kind words here. We greatly appreciate it! Season 2 starts today so we hope you enjoy our new adventures also. :)

Same here! Good news....it finally starts today. Thank you for stopping by. We appreciate you tuning in!

Hi Maddie! Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words. You always right such nice comments and we really appreciate it. Next time we'll pay more attention to those Pen Shells! Promise!

@@theshellnuts Thank you so much guys, I love watching your videos; you two are so sweet! You make such awesome content 💖 Hehe, I just wanna see your pen shells for a few seconds maybe? I don’t come across them too often here, but maybe they are super common for you?

That's great to hear because that's exactly what we're hoping for. Thank you for the positive feedback and for checking out our video! Greatly appreciated. :)

Thank you! Much appreciated. :)

@@theshellnuts you're welcome.

Thanks Shannon! We always appreciate your words of support! Yes, having my wife join in on the narration was great. She's exceptionally camera/microphone shy and you can probably here some nervousness in her voice in the beginning, but she got more comfortable as we moved along and I think she's going to be great at it. I hope you're able to plan that trip soon! Please keep us updated. :)

Yes, I'm happy to hear more of my wife's voice in our video also! I hope we can split narration duties moving forward. I think she's going to be a great narrator as she becomes more comfortable in front of the microphone. Glad you loved the video! Thanks as always for tuning in!

Thank you for tuning and joining us on these adventures. We appreciate it! :)

Thanks Kathy! We're happy to hear you liked this one. :) Yes, it's really easy to lose track of time in such a great place! Thankfully we didn't need to swim back! Always, thanks for tuning in and for the kind words. Much appreciated!

Thank you for stopping by! The cleaning and restoration episode will be episode #12 and we'll finally be releasing it next week and hopefully it answers some of your questions. Hope you enjoy it!

We will certainly try our best to keep shelling! Thank you for tuning in!

Hey Diane! Thanks as always for checking out our videos and for the kind words. Glad to hear you enjoyed this one! I hope your shelling has been going well also. :)

@@theshellnuts Not a shell to be seen up this way, so REALLY enjoying your videos. I do have a short trip to Jupiter and then a longer trip to St Pete area soon, tho, and am looking forward to both!

Thanks! Us too! It's going to be fun. :)

Hi! Thank you for checking out our videos and for the kind words. We greatly appreciate it. We don't have any plans to sell shells and I think we prefer to stay amateurs :), but if we change out minds we'll let you know. Again, thanks for checking out our channel!

Thanks for tuning in Irene and for the kind words. Much appreciated. :) We're lucky to have a good friend who lives in that area and we're able to park at their place. We absolutely love Marco Island also, and Fort Myers beach and Sanibel too. We're happy we can enjoy and share shelling content from both of our great coastlines here Florida.

Good question. I thought about that when I first saw it, but a Rose Murex typically is smaller and has a skinnier tail with little spines sticking out from the tail. We have a few of them in our collection and this looks different than those. It's either a Lace Murex that rested in some sand that had some unusual minerals in it that caused it to have that abnormal pink/rose tint, or it's just a variety of murex we're not familiar with and don't have in our books to identify. If somebody knows, please feel free to share! We always appreciate our knowledgeable viewers helping us learn. :)

LOL. Yeah, we're excited about that Part 2 also. We just need to wait for the weather conditions in the Keys to be right. My little bay boat can't make it out to the reef in the Atlantic unless there is extremely light winds and it has to be on a weekend so my wife can join me. Hope you can be patient with us! :)

@@theshellnuts Of course I can 🙃

Well, ummm, we have several rose murexes at home and we're fairly familiar with them and a rose murex doesn't have "ruffles" and its narrow section is very slender with tiny needle-like spines sticking out, and it's also a very small murex. Feel free to Google 'rose murex' and check the images of it and hopefully you'll see what I'm talking about. This murex that my wife picked up has ruffles on that slender section and has a thicker shape overall and is larger than a standard rose murex. So unless there are completely different kinds of rose murexes, our best guess is that it's just a lace murex that has an unusual tint to it because of some unusual minerals it was laying in and maybe the sunrise is also causing the color to look different on camera, or maybe it's a variety of murex that we're not familiar with and don't have identified in our books. But thank you for your feedback Lindsay! We're still learning and appreciate everyone's input here and it's fun to try to identify some of the unusual finds and chat about them! :)