Hailing originally from Bremerton, I have some doubts about digging out a geoduck by hand. It was hard enough with a clam gun (elsewhere known as a spade). We should probably have watched the native Indians to learn how they did it, but not all of their stuff was really that good. The Indians around there are the only ones who had Rain Dances to make the rain stop, but that never worked worth a slugs fart.