While on a walk through Yachats, someone spotted a flyer advertising a free talk at a ranger station in the next town over on the basics of clamming. This is something no one had ever done, and we were interested, so we checked it out!
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| Ranger Cameron, aka Ranger "Clameron" gives a free talk regularly to anyone who's interested. He was very helpful and gave us everything we needed to know to go out on our own later. |
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| Props and all, he explained how to catch those things! |
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| Ella was a good clamming student :) |
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| So good, that Ranger Clameron gave her an honorary junior park ranger badge! |
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| She was very proud :) |
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| Here he is catching shrimp with the tool he's holding in his hand, and the "clam gun" is the silver tool next to the little boy. |
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| And he showed us how to dig for clams the old fashioned way... |
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| it's like a suction device... |
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| dig it into the sand, suck up the sand... |
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| then shoot out the sand and see what you've found! |
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| little holes like these are good indicators that clams are beneath |
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| Everyone had their chance to "catch" one! |
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| The clam gun made it a lot easier than digging. |
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| Uncle B helped Ella catch some, too :) |
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| At the end, we also had a crab race...first crab to the center of the circle wins! |
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| Brian wore some old-lady jeans that were free to wear from the house, and let's just say it was a sight-to-see watching him clam in them :) |
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