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One of my favorite things to do on the sound side of Oregon Inlet is clam. A couple of weeks ago Dawson Rascoe, Gina Rascoe, Beth Strandberg, Peter Rascoe, Nixon Rascoe, Jeb Ivey, and I all piled in Dawson's boat to try out his new custom built clam rakes that Marty Williams had just finished making. Cheap metal dining knives welded on to a metal basket attached to a metal pipe makes for the ideal tool to dig up a bunch of clams along the shallows behind the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge. Wade in about ankle to knee deep water dragging the rake behind, and wait for a bump and a clink against the metal - A clam is on! After we limited out with about a couple of hundred, we decided to go to Green Island Slough and dig up a bunch of mussels that bed themselves in the mud along the marshes. Not as relaxing as clamming but just as much fun, "musselin" can be quite a workout trying to pull these fellows up from the mud. When we returned to the boat a light Northeast breeze had blown up, and I had to take a snap of the Oregon Inlet Life Saving Station as it is seen from the West side of Hatteras Island at its Northern tip. Built in 1897, it was decommissioned in the the 1980's but now is being restored.
The rest of the afternoon was spent shucking the clams and peeling onions and potatoes. Along with some fried bacon and chicken broth, all this was thrown in a pot to make chowder for dinner while the mussels were steamed and eaten on the back porch.
