20260226 Thursday, February 26, 2026- Twin Harbors State Park Razor Clamming Day 1

20260226 Thursday, February 26, 2026- Twin Harbors State Park Razor Clamming Day 1

Ben had connected the external LP tank and shut off the main tank to preserve it, but forgot to switch on the external LP inlet valve, so the furnace didn’t work until he figured out what had happened and had to go outside and open that valve, which is where the external hose connects.  That was at 2am.  Without cellular service or over the air TV reception, there isn’t that much to do after the sun sets, so we went to bed by 8pm.  It rained on and off, but we were comfortable in the RV.  

Since the furnace was off for most of the night, and the RV had started with a 100% battery charge, we were in really good shape in the morning with almost 80% charge still in the batteries.  The rain had stopped during the early morning hours, and there were breaks in the clouds, so our solar panels were getting a some charge, but we will probably run the generator in the evening while we clean our clam catch.

We drove the Bronco to the Westport public library to use their wifi and get cellular reception.  The wifi signal was strong, but it wasn’t connected to the internet for some reason, but at least we had cellular signal to download emails and podcasts. 

We had lunch, which was Costco Rotisserie chicken and baguettes with pickles and Cheese-its.  Real camp cuisine.  

We hit the beach at 1pm when the tide was at 2’ and dropping.  Janet was able to find her 15 clams pretty quickly working the upper tide line where there were shows as the tide was falling, while Ben wanted to find larger clams in deeper areas as the tide was going out.  We had our limits of 15 clams each and were headed back to the RV at 2:15pm.  It was nice to get the clams all cleaned and put up during daylight hours.  

The batteries had not really gained much charge from the sun, staying at around 70% charge, so we ran the generator while we processed the clams and got the batteries up to over 80%.  

Janet noticed that Franklin was on Copalis beach to the north.  He was digging for razor clams with his girlfriend Kate.  He reported tough digging at Copalis with few shows and a lot of pounding to provoke shows.  We had considered meeting him for dinner in Aberdeen, which is halfway between Twin Harbors and Copalis, but was cooking the 7 clams he had managed to find and was also having trouble with getting cellular signal.  We invited him to relocate to Twin Harbors since there are still plenty of empty RV sites, but he was already booked at the Copalis RV resort for his 2 nights.  

We microwaved some leftover baked ling cod with rice pilaf and carrots that we had brought from home with some toasted Costco baguettes for a gourmet dinner.  

We happen to have different cell phone plans on our phones to be able to tap into different networks.  Janet’s phone is on Mint Mobile, which uses the AT&T network, and Ben’s phone is on Xfinity Mobile, which is on the Verizon network.  At the campground the Verizon network shows only one bar but no internet connectivity, while the AT&T network shows two bars and Janet has been able to periodically get emails, texts and even stream some Facebook videos, but not enough for the RV’s AppleTV to be able to stream any content reliably.  The lack of connectivity does encourage us to get to bed much earlier.