December 28, 2006

Oysters are...

yummy! I like them. Whodathunk?

After cycling class, David and I took the Great Little Car to the Olympic Peninsula for SnowShoeing - Take 2. We caught a 9:20am Edmonds ferry to Kingston. We hiked along the Dosewallips Road toward the Ranger Station hoping for some deep snow.

David in the Dosewallips Valley woods

By 2:00 we had reached the waterfall destination but weren’t in enough snow to warrant our snowshoes. David had packed us a lunch of BLT fixin’s and a delicious bottle of white wine. We headed back down the logging road, hopped in the Mini and arrived at Seal Rock just in time to view a spectacular sunset. The tide was low enough to walk out on the rocky beach and gather some fresh oysters for dinner. David showed me how to pick out and shuck good ones. I watched and held the bowl. The light was fading fast and it was cold.

Back at P Square David whisked up a batter and pan fried the nasty little things which turned out to be quite delicious. We ate them with fresh squeezed lemon and a nice green salad while watching The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart.