- April 19 - A storm came up last night and it has rained and blown all day. I spent the morning loading shells and digging clams. There is a good "patel" of clams about 50 yards from our camps, and one can get a wash pan heaping full in a shove at low tide. They are fat and one kind is about as good as oysters. Our camp is made on the beach just above high tide. We have 6 tents up and we need them all to keep dry. Mr. Stephens got a Varied thrush, Sitka bruglet, James and a q pine siskin which had evidently already finished incubating. I went out to set some traps tonight but the tide was up and I couldn't get around the point. I tried to go up on the mountainside but had to climb a tree to get up. The ground is frozen and the mossy tree trunks are slippery and when you try to walk on the fallen ones you are apt to find yourself up to your neck in a snow drift.