Featured Image: Three Graces, photo courtesy of TEP While sports fishermen, paddlers and clammers spend countless hours playing in and along the edges of local bays, to the people behind the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership the health and future of local waterways, as well as the fun they can provide to human beings, are serious business. The nonprofit group, […]
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Foraging pays off in clams and sea vegetables along Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi
With a little patience and some rudimentary knowledge of shellfish and sea vegetables, anyone can successfully forage for dinner along Tillamook Bay. The Tillamook Indians, who maintained a village along Tillamook Bay, harvested shellfish and edible roots and sea vegetables year-round, collecting their food in baskets they wove from cedar bark fibers. The process is […]
Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay offers sports fishing and crabbing opportunities year-round
With five rivers flowing into it from the north, east and south, Tillamook Bay serves as what many consider one of the best inlet fishing and crabbing destinations on the West Coast. And with Garibaldi the closest deep sea harbor to Portland, the bay is also among the more convenient. Even better, a variety of […]