Clamming

Razor clams are a delicacy. Last week during the Minus Tide which is an extremely low tide that happens twice a month, the three of us went clamming. Winston and Ruth stayed on the beach as we did not want our black dog to be a muddy brown. Jannich worked hard and walked quite a distance from shore, digging approximately two doz. clams. Cleaning them turned out to be the worst part of the job. This took at least twice as long as compared to digging them.

Ruth made fried clams and clam chowder. The owners of the RV camp gave us several recipes for cooking clams. The clam chowder was so good that Ruth suggested that Jannich go out the next day to dig more and he really was not too keen on that idea! In the picture below Jannich is to the right of center in the yellow shirt, on his knees digging with his hand.

(Note Mount Redoubt in the background. it is fifty miles away across Cook Inlet and it is 10.197ft high).