Photo: Beach at Scenic Beach State Park

The intertidal areas along the rocky beach at Scenic Beach State Park near Seabeck, Washington are covered with empty shells as well as growing oyster beds. Several times a year oyster season will open and visitors are allowed to shuck up to ten oysters per person, as long as the shells remain on the beach. Some people just slurp up the critters raw from the clean waters of the Hood Canal, but others take them back to their campsite and roast them quickly over the coals of their fire.