Oyster Blog
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Well, it's that time of year again. Summertime. And the oysters are doing what they do: getting spawny. And you can no longer eat them raw because of naturally-occurring salt water bacteria. We've all been here before. If you look...
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Last week we received a certified letter from the Highway Department telling us that our tree cookie sign is illegal. Even though it's located on the same property as our store, it's too far from the store to satisfy the...
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Gary (see earlier post) also shared these two photos of our own oyster shucking operation in the 1960s... back then we had a conveyor belt to move oyster shell around. Now we use a forklift and dumptruck, and our shell...
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Our neighbor and fellow oyster farmer Gary M. heard about our oyster shack documentation project and stopped by the other day with a collection of old photos to share. The oyster shack pictured below stands at the mouth of the...
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Our tour of Hood Canal oyster shacks continues with a stop in downtown Lilliwaup. According to John, who grew up in Lilliwaup proper and now shucks oysters for Hama Hama, when this shed was in use back in the 50s...
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Saturday we trucked ourselves and a bunch of shellfish over to the first Saturday Bellevue Farmers Market of 2010. It was a beautiful and fun day at the market, and the smoked and pickled oysters went over like a helium...
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The chiton is continuing his cleaning ways: And both the gunnel and the sculpin have found hiding places where they can get a little R&R without worrying about a spider crab attack: The gunnel prefers a floating piece of drift...
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Shrimp are much faster in reverse, but we didn't get it on camera. We haven't been able to find live crab for the past couple of weeks, so we saved a few of the spot prawns in our crab aquarium,...
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We just about got skunked last weekend during the first recreational shrimp opening of the year. Normally we shrimp at about 150 to 200 feet, and normally we do really well. There were 10 of us shrimping in the same...
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This little guy came in with the spot prawns last week. He lost his right paw somewhere along the way. After a little sleuthing we determined that he's a squat lobster: According to Emerald Diving, squat lobsters are actually just...
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Killdeer are darling little birds and their high-pitched calls echo across the oyster farm on summer evenings. A couple of days ago Dave noticed that a mother killdeer had built an oyster shell nest in a gravel pile near the...