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I grew up in the 60s and 70s digging razor clams every summer with my parents and grandparents at Ocean Shores and Copalis Beach in Washington. Lots of good memories. I have also visited Fort Stevens and it is a lovely place.

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Wow! You're very familiar then.

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I love Ft. Stevens! Such a beautiful area. I enjoy eating razor clams but I’m happy to leave the digging to others lol! Looks like you had perfect weather for the event

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We were SO lucky! Others said it's been cold and raining many times.

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I enjoy learning about your clamming adventure! My grandfather used to bring me on clamming excursions, but I never ate clams. Your photos are lovely.

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Did you do the pulling too? It's hard work!

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While living In Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island in 1963 I tried a clam boil. There are tiny coquina donax clams. They are always there and the kids and I enjoyed just wiggling our toes in the sand and they come to the surface, they are beautiful colors when alive At certain phases of the moon they come up in huge piles on the beach. I decided to scoop up a washtub full and boil them to see if I could make something edible.

Well, I guess if we really needed sustenance that would do, but the clam inside the shell when boiled was about the size of the head of a match, there was a lot of sand in the mix, of course. I had thought I rinsed them well, I forgot to include what sand might be in the gut and come out in the boiling.

I didn't make chowder, but I did show the rest of the group we could exist on them if necessary.

The group were all scientists at the University of Texas Marine Lab where my husband was finishing up his Phd., so I had a lot to prove.

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This is a great story! Thanks for sharing!

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