Davin, my sister Diane’s husband, arrived last night from his consulting job in Massachusetts. First order of business on visits to the East Coast for me is to have some unobtanium sea food. Ipswich clams are very limited in their geographic distribution. They seem to occur in New England only but are the best kind of clams for steaming and frying. I had not had any steamed Ipswich clams during my visits for the last two years. I had concentrated on fried clams – much better than those clam strips that you usually get when you talk about fried clams. These are known in New England as fried ‘whole belly’ clams because the whole clam is fried as a single piece – delicious. I plan to have some of those soon but today we got some fresh from the guy who gathers them locally and they were very good.

After eating our fill of clams we took a ride on Davin’s boat. Davin and I put the boat in at a ramp about a half-mile down the river and then picked up Carol and Diane at the dock in front of the house. We motored down to Friendship Harbor and saw some amazing scenery on the trip.

Later we had some freshly caught lobsters for dinner – forgot to take pictures of them but you know what lobsters look like.