We’re two days into our 5 day recreational shrimp season in Hood Canal, and both shrimp openings (last Saturday and today) have been extremely windy. Naturally, the intervening days have been peaceful and calm. Saturday was so rough it scared one of the gray beards off the water before he even dropped his pots. Today, […]
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Last week Hama Hama got re-energized by a visit from Brother Tom, who has been studying forestry in Mongolia and is pretty much an awesome human being. Despite his surprising affinity for sundried horse yogurt, Tom can’t quite stomach the though of industrially-produced meat, so he came back home for elk season to provide for […]
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The other morning two of the graybeards were driving to work in the woods above the oyster farm when they noticed a dead deer lying in the ditch beside the road. The deer’s body was still warm, and it had two deep puncture wounds in either side of its neck that were bleeding profusely. And […]
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We’ve had a string of really low tides this week, and so we sent the three graybeards out to dig geoduck and play in the mud. The old fashioned way to dig geoduck is to use a shovel and a bucket. But the bucket method takes a long time and has a pretty low success […]
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We don’t know what this is. And neither did these three graybeards, who between them have nearly a century and a half of experience in the Hood Canal oyster industry: Nathan is the only one who wasn’t shocked at the bright red bivalve. He said that they grow way out deep and called them “blood […]
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