20260403 Friday, April 3, 2026- Another Clam Trip Wraps Up

20260403 Friday, April 3, 2026- Another Clam Trip Wraps Up

The alarm went off at 6:15am, and it would have been really easy to have slept in, but we had one more clam dig to get in before facing the possibility of battling traffic to get home.  

We got to the beach at 7am with pretty good conditions.  The wind was less than 15mph, and the sun was finding its way through the cloudy sky to light up the beach.  

Janet was able to spot the clam shows easier today, and had her limit in 20 minutes, while Ben used a thumper to provoke a couple of shows closer to the water before having Janet spot shows for him to fill his limit as well.  

We were headed off the beach by 8am with two limits and larger clams than earlier in the trip.  

On returning to the campsite, our gear got rinsed off and put away while the clams soaked in salt water.  Ben transferred about 12 gallons of diesel from the Jerry cans into the fuel tank, pushing the needle to full.  The RV was reconfigured for the road, breaking camp and the Bronco was rehitched to the RV by 9:15am.   

There was little traffic headed back to the city in the morning hours.  There is a rest stop in Elma with free trailer dump facilities, so we dumped our black and grey water tanks there, and also emptied the last of the Jerry can diesel into the fuel tank. 

Traffic did start to build near Olympia, but we were able to maintain the speed limit by using the car pool and express toll lanes on I-405, bypassing the I-5 University Bridge construction traffic mess.  Getting an early start on our return trip certainly allowed us to miss most of the city traffic.  

We arrived at the Angel of the Winds Casino by 12:45pm, where we topped up the fuel tanks.  Since their diesel was $0.40/gal less expensive than Samcor’s, and more than a dollar less per gallon than many local stations, we refilled the jerry cans to be used in the near future until Trump’s Iran war gets wrapped up.  

After a quick shopping stop at the Costco Burlington store, we unloaded the RV at home and then parked the RV back in the barn, and hung up our waders and clamming gear.  It was nice to be able to get that all done with daylight to spare.  

This is likely our last razor clam digging trip for this season since halibut season just opened, and then there will be shrimp season and then ling Cod season over the next 2 months.  In the meanwhile, Ben will have to do some troubleshooting to figure why the awning wasn’t working.