2:01 pm Daily Log
I went out with Stephen and we basically followed King Saul, Sarge and Mary. I say ‘basically’ because we let them beat us to the bank and start working before we decided where to go. When Stephen and I got to the bay we saw their two boats up on the bank about 200 yards apart; we couldn’t see them working, but Stephen figured they were up in the marsh digging for clams. We split the difference and beached the boat right between their two and went to work.
Clamming is hard on your back. Simply put, it’s like tilling up your front yard, the whole yard, with a three-tined rake and collecting the rocks in a basket as you go. I’d say that in an average spot you would get one bag of clams, 250 per bag, in an area of about 25’ by 10’. That comes to about 1 clam per square foot. Today I dug 500 clams, two bags, and my back is killing me! Stephen dug 1000.