Foraging for shellfish is one of Alex’s great pleasures of vacationing oceanside. It’s always happenstance when he comes across a bed of something tasty, so the method for digging is a bit untraditional. Here’s how Alex, and later me, dug for clams yesterday on Planting Island causeway near Marion, Massachusetts. 1) Negotiate with the five year old for the use of her green plastic shovel. click pictures for bigger images 2) Look for the telltale [...]

We just returned from a vacation to the Chesapeake Bay and surrounds.  There were so many things I wanted to write about on the road but we never had good enough coverage to upload photos. Pictures are worth the wait, right? On Monday we drove west out of Ohio and stopped for lunch at the pre-researched Union Cafe in Washington PA.  We made our way to Rockville MD by evening and enjoyed a swim in [...]

I have always loved shellfish. Both sides of my family originated in New England, so maybe it runs in the blood. Growing up my family regularly visited the northeast coast every summer to see relatives and relax on the beach. At a young age I had already begun digging up razor clams and quahogs on the sand flats of Cape Cod Bay. I loved the clam chowder we could make from quahogs, but the razor [...]