A part of travel is always experiencing the culinary variations in the local stops and regions. Just above Tillamook is the tiny village of Bay City, which happens to be one of the fishing ports for Pacific Seafoods. In this case, it seems to be primarily oysters. We stopped on the Pacific Seafood dock and found this unmarked restaurant. Fresh oysters were being unloaded from a dock in back, and there was this restaurant in the front, with oyster shuckers at work in the back.
Of course there were various oyster dishes as well as the usual mix of seafood.
This place had fielded a winning team of oyster shuckers, and in the video below you can see their skills. In the short time of this video, if you watch closely, you will see her open the shell, extract the meat, and repeat it again and start a third. I assume they are paid by the pound, because they were all working like this. Seeing their effort can't help but make you appreciate the oysters more.
