Heading Home

We picked the perfect day to head home, the rain started after a week of wonderful weather for the coast.  Woke up to light rain. So happy that we had picked up all the outside stuff around the RV yesterday and were pretty much ready to go ! !  We head home with 24 packages of clams in the freezer.  WOW. Stopped at Camp 18 for breakfast with the Leeth's and then on home.  The evening news says that it has been raining really hard right where we were camped. 

On to our next adventure.  Can't wait ! 

Clams Are Now Safe ! !

Well we knew we would do it ! !   Went a couple days ago and bought another clam permit for us.  Today was the last day of decent tides so our last day to clam and that works perfect since we are going home tomorrow.  Charlie really needed to head to the other end of the peninsula to clam today as the clams were much bigger there ! !  Went about 10 miles north and then drove another mile or so up the beach.  Lots of people coming and going and lots of holes in the sand.  But....  we got our limits again in about 1/2 hour ! ! 

This is Charlie clams...

Now, we think that they are all just about the same size as we have been getting except Charlie's.....  we know that his are bigger ! !   LOL  We also lucked out with the weather.  Definitely cooler than the 80's when we got here but no real wind or rain, at least yet ! !   LOL

Tonight is our big dinner out night.  Doogers here we come ! !  Heading back home tomorrow to get ready for company and our party ! !  Can't wait ! ! 

Last Day of Permit

Well, this was the last day of our clamming permit.  Each day the low tide has been an hour later.  I love it.  Today we drove to a beach access about a mile from our camp entrance.  We were gone a total of about one hour and all four of us limited.  Didn't even get my boots wet today and back at camp by 8:30am! ! See all the holes, no more clam!! Forgot to take a picture of Charlie and Joanne with my phone.  Darn it!

There is talk of getting another permit since we will be here until Tuesday!! Trying to decide if I still want to clam more.  My back is saying enough is enough~ LOL

The guys are cleaning clams.  Shower time for me! ! !  We are heading to the Saturday Market in Ilwaco and lunch near the pier ! ! ! 

Day 2 of the Clamming Permit

Oh boy, what a difference a day makes.  Today is cold, cloudy, typical coastal weather so I decided not to go clamming this morning.  Ken went with Charlie and Joanne.  They drove to Ocean Park to clam cuz Charlie thought that the clams were a lot bigger when you went north!!   What?!?!?!  He found that they were about the same size as out from the campground here on the south end of the peninsula.  LOL.  Guys are so funny sometimes ! !  They all limited again. Easy, peasy !!  After naps, we decided to go visit Oysterville on the north end. We had actually seen an episode of Northwest Backroads recently that featured the oyster farms in Oysterville.  

When we got back to camp we decided it was happy hour time and Charlie enjoyed the oysters and we all enjoyed the pickled herring and smoked salmon spread that we purchased. Joanne had made a four layer mexican dip and so we stuffed our faces and called it dinner ! !   

Tomorrow is the last day of our clamming permits.  Huuuummmm.

Clamming

Well this weather is absolutely incredible for clamming.  Sunny and warm even at 6:30am.  All four of us walked to the beach, dug our 15 clams each and walked back to the park all in one and a half hours.  Amazing ! ! !  Last time we came here was a couple years ago and it was raining sideways.  I didn't even get out of the RV. This is sooooo much better!!!  81 degrees this afternoon.

Dressed and ready to go... Found out that this was way to many clothes.  Tomorrow will not include the waders, only boots. That is, unless the temperature drops ! !   LOL

As you can see, we are practically the only ones on this beach!!! This is Charlie and Joanne.

Today

Nice to be all settled into the Long Beach Thousand Trails Park.  It is actually in Seaview, Washington.  They tell us that 25 rigs will be coming in today. Yesterday the park looked about half empty.  Guess everyone knows that it is clamming season ! !  The park tells us that they got ten inches of rain last month.  You can really see it in all the standing water.  The path to the beach is still a bit wet but didn't stop me from walking in my flip flops !!  LOL

 Looks like clams need a different kind of beach and sand

Charlie and Joanne should be here soon.  Still have our car parked in the space behind us. Hope we don't get kicked out before they get here!  LOL

Here We Go Again ! !

Came home early from the desert so that I could have my surgery for hearing. I had the abutment implanted on 2/22/16 for a PONTO Bone Anchored Hearing System. Since I don't have a middle ear this is the new, high-tech solution. Since I have never been able to hear out of my left ear due to long time infections in childhood, it is quite the miracle.  I will get the sound processor on 5/24/16. Looking forward to it ! !  Scary but exciting ! ! 

Soooo, today is our first trip away since surgery and hoping to take up some time before we leave in June as Tail Gunners for a 60 day Alaska trip with Fantasy RV Tours. 

Ready to go! !

We drove up I-5 to Longview, then to Highway 30, then to 101.  Then you face the Astoria Bridge. It towers over the city of Astoria and I also couldn't believe that it is over four miles long. The ships in the Columbia River are huge !

Arrived at the Thousand Trails Long Beach Resort.  It is really in the town of Seaview on the Long Beach Peninsula.  Tomorrow Charlie and Joanne will be here and the clams will not be safe ! !