Clam Digging

This was an awesome, adventurous experience! Ryan and I got up at 4:30am, well, that’s when our alarms went off, and we drove out to Ocean Shores to go clam digging! The digging part was pretty cool, once we watched other people to figure out how to locate the clams in the sand. Ryan called me “Seagull Eye Debi” because I learned how to identify the tell-tale brown spots or moving sand over the clam holes. He started getting the hang of it at the end. He was a much better digger than I was. The only clam I almost got was the one I chopped the foot off of. It was kind of sad since we were using shovels, which meant that we cracked the shells of most of the clams we got. Other people were using this cool device which we call a “clam gun.” It was a much better digging tool since you put it right over a clam hole and pushed down to grab a big tube of sand. Most people would pull up a tube full of sand and a clam . . . and they didn’t crack the shell or cut off the foot. Ryan and I learned a lot from our first clam digging experience and really enjoyed it. Next time, we want a clam gun and those long, rubber leg-covering things though.

Here's Mr. Clam Digger himself!

There were people digging clams all along the coastline as far as you could see in both directions. In spite of the 34 degree weather and the hail, it was practically as busy as the beaches back home in San Diego!

Look how happy I am to be freezing and soaked and to have to clean and cook all those slimy things we are digging out of the ground!