Details: Team Dempsey Guide Service
Have you ever been clamming? This was a first for me for sure; but it was an absolute blast! My sister and her boyfriend arranged the whole trip for us. We headed down to the marina to get on our boat. The day was pretty cloudy and lightly rainy; the weather didn't stop us from going and having a good time. By the end of the trip the sun started peeking through the clouds a little!
We took the boat out to the Pamlico Sound where a sand bar was formed. We just got out of the boat to about knee deep water and walked out in the middle of the sound to the sand bar. Basically you walk around in the water digging your heels into the sand until you hit a clam.
Did you know a clam spends it's whole life going only vertical and never moving away from their original spot?
Our limit was 200 clams. You can't get more than that because clams, like oysters, are natural water filters and we want our earth to have nice clean water. As a group we found way more than 200 in just the little spot we were walking around in. We counted them out at the end of the trip and threw the excess away.
The 200 that we did catch we cooked up later that evening. They were so fresh and delicious. We literally just had clams and wine for dinner and it was pure bliss.
If you are ever in the Hatteras region of the Outer Banks contact Team Dempsey Guide Service! This links to their facebook page. They did a fantastic job of taking us out for our clamming trip and a little bit of fishing for my dad to test out his new pole. They run these clamming trips and also purely fishing trips out on the sound!
This was an amazing way to spend part of our day on the island. Clamming was definitely one of the most unique experiences I have ever had.
P.S. RIP to the hat I am wearing in these photos. I flipped my kayak on a huge wave two days later and sadly the hat got taken away by the ocean while I was in survival mode. Now I am in search of a new favorite hat, any recommendations?
What is the most interesting thing you have ever done at the beach?!
No comments:
Post a Comment