So it is at Tillamook Bay, where the four-mile long Bayocean Spit offers a hike or a bike ride to reach clam heaven. The summertime low tides are perfect for this adventure as we cool off with cockle ...

I enjoy cooling off and finding coastal adventure by digging my supper from the sea. The summertime low tides are perfect for this adventure as we cool off with cockle clamming. When you drive the ...

Heading to Garibaldi last Sunday was a two-fold adventure: escape the stifling heat in the Mid-Valley and rake for cockles at Tillamook Bay during the lowest tide of the year. It seems like many ...

A couple of weeks ago, I heard the ocean calling, and my heart stirred. At 7:30 a.m. May 6, there was a -1.3 low tide, and the clam and cockle beds in Tillamook Bay at Garibaldi would be exposed. I ...

Don't think you're a clam person? Consider the cockle. The pint-sized bivalve is 100 percent sweet, tender meat with none of the overwhelming brininess that turns people off from other shellfish. Even ...

Bivalves: clams, scallops, oysters, cockles, and mussels, have rich lives and complex evolutionary histories far beyond the deep-fryer. Here are vignettes of four bivalves that provide a small glimpse ...

Mussels from Prince Edward Island, cockles from New Zealand, periwinkles from Cape Cod and clams from Vancouver -- the shellfish on our dinner plates have flown in from all over for the occasion. And ...