Dave
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On Saturday morning I decided to go dig some razor clams. They are a real Northwest treat. I figured to do a little surf fishing after getting the clams. So low tide was at 9:30 AM. You dig on the out going tide. I like to start digging about an hour and a half before low tide and it is about an hour and 20 minutes to the beach I like to dig at. I know all the back roads to avoid the tourist areas out on the coast. When I got to the beach road about 7 miles south of where dig the traffic was bumper to bumper. From there it was slow going. It took 25 minutes to go the 7 miles. I get to the beach and it is already stacked full of people. I quickly dug my clams and forgot about the surf fishing. I wanted to get out of there before these thousands of people all decide it is time to leave. By the time I went to leave there was three lines of card parked side by side for as far as I could see. And you can see a long ways on an open sandy beach (probably 5 miles or more each way). Back on the road there were cars bumper to bumper waiting to get to the beach. Most of them would never get to the beach in time to dig a clam. This all happened a good 3 hours from Seattle or Portland. There are getting to be just too many people. I need to move to Middle of Nowhere Wyoming.