Oyster Blog

It has been really, really cold here for the past week, and the Canal is full of floating ice bergs. Above, Nathan and Miguel are cutting their way through the ice to reach the oyster tubs. When the tide goes...

We've had a string of really low tides this week, and so we sent the three graybeards out to dig geoduck and play in the mud. The old fashioned way to dig geoduck is to use a shovel and a...

sorry for the string of corny posts... we'll get serious soon. But we can't resist sharing this photo. Helena took it on a walk last fall, a season when the woods on the Olympic Peninsula are golden, fragrant, and full...

On Monday a group of Bellevue Christian School students came by to tour the oyster farm. They were on the first day of a week long field trip around the Olympic Peninsula. We walked out on the tideflats to look...

included a gorgeous sunrise: lots of digging in search of a missing water line: and an octopus hunt! Adam pulled an octopus up with the oyster tubs this morning, and brought him up to the livetanks for a photo shoot....

Adam and Nathan out on the barge this morning, as the sun peeked through the clouds during a snow flurry. The Hama Hama bridge at dawn.

  In the winter, the tide is low at night. This means that the oyster pickers and clam diggers work through the night, in every kind of weather except lightning storms. Last night we caught up with Dan and Dave...

Fall intern Luke Reynolds has moved on to bigger and better places (namely, the fall tour with his band Pictures and Sound), and our first Luke-less Monday in several weeks felt kinda flat. During his three week tenure at Hama...

...with this guy: (Not sure whether that blurry appendage on the left belongs to Adam, or if Miguel is standing right behind him....) Views from the Captain's House: The barge goes out at high tide and picks up full tubs...