I was trying to add a picture, but since I got a new phone it keeps saying the files are too big to upload here. Anyways, I’m cutting a beachside strip of timber right now (cleaning up our leftovers on a helicopter unit we did a few years back) and I found the mother load of clams and oysters on my hike out today, so I had almost a backpack full by the time I made it to the road. I’m cooking oysters over an alder fire (and eating a few raw ones) and a buddy I work with is making clam chowder. Winning.

I tried. It still said it’s too big, I had to do that on my old phone too

Got it to work finally. I cropped it down and that helped I guess

Yum.

I eat them right out of the water, but not everyone likes them raw, so I figured why not cook some up. I did manage to dodge making the clam chowder lol

The otters told me where to look

I really like seafood. I'd eat some of them raw with you. It appears you're lucky the otters left you some! Clam chowder (new England Style) is one of my favorite "soup's" too.

I’ll eat most anything I pull out of the waters around here as I find it. Cooking and seasoning is fine, I’m not saying I don’t like steamed oysters and hot sauce, but I just pop them open with a bar wrench and dump about half the salt water out and tip them back

Oh man, what a fine meal on a spring day!

And we’ve even had 3 sunny days in a row! Can’t beat this time of year

LOL we appreciate a “stretch” of fair weather here in SE AK.

Our crummy said it was 66 degrees yesterday when we were leaving the woods, I near went for a swim

WA State law makes us leave the shells on the beach to legally possess them…... BS,,, but I have a couple cast iron muffins pans that still does a good job if I am harvesting in a visible area.
You have to save the juice and start them in that ,,,then add butter…

Beast and worst place to look is were an old drain field went into the bay…… yummy…..
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I’m sure there’s some type of rules for people harvesting for sport, but I have subsistence permits for shellfish, halibut, shrimp, and king crab (which is technically a shellfish, but has a separate permit. Dungeness and tanner crab are covered by the shellfish permit). It is weird they make you leave the shells, I wonder why

sounds like the end of a good day,

Very nice.Always good to get your own food.

I like them raw too, in a little glass with some vodka and Clamato and Tobasco.

I don’t know if I’d eat them if I lived as far inland as Montana, seems like a long journey lol

I first ate raw oysters in Bordeaux, France. The family I was staying with insisted I drink the water in the shell too which being seawater out of the Med I wasn't thrilled about. Alaska's waters would be another thing though.

SC has a Shell recycling area on each of the Islands , you drop off your shells there or take them back where you picked them from.

Oyster eggs attach to oyster shells and they grow in clusters , so the idea is place the shells and a few oysters where you want to be picking from later

here is a new man made oyster habitat they were working on , the sign says something like don't pick these this is a project to get them started in this portion of the sound. I didn't get a close up of the sign.