Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-13
The Travellers Notebook
Hunting Giant CLAIMS in Sea in Winter
Sport in Southern California;
Tennessee's Picturesque Waterfalls

Hunting clans big as your head,
in a bathing suit out in the SUM-
shine, is a favorite winter sport in
| Southern California.
They are the giant Pismo clans
which grow SO big that if a clam
isn't 5i2 inches the long way of the
shell, the law makes you throw it
back.
The Pismo clam grows only along
% miles of the Southern California
coast line, from Morrow Bay on the
north TO FL Pismo Beach on the
south. 1t won't grow elsewhere, not
even a few hundred miles up the
same coast.
From a tiny seed" size, the clam
grows very fast, and in or years
it has attained the legal digging size
of 5i2 inches, and some escape the
clam hunters to keep on growing
and reach the giant size of or 10
inches. There aren't many of them,
but they are the goal Of every clam
hunter.
Guarantees usually protect the
CLAIMS in summer but all winter
long the guests and coast residents
flock to the beaches in bathing suits.
spade fork in hand Knee deep in
the surf. they dig up sand as if
spading an underwater garden. A
hard clink Of the spade means a
buried clam and the clam hunter
reaches quick with his free hand
If a surprise wave doesn't dump him
on his head. he comes up with a
clam. If it's 5l2 inches in size. he
losses it into the gunny sack: if
baby. perhaps inches, he splashes
it back.
The limit is Is clans. and after
he has them. the hunter staggers
ashore with his sack and lights
fire. A food grinder, handful of
corn meal. and the party has a
delicious clam bake
Lovers of the outdoors are fasci-
mated by waterfalls and Tennessee
has number of great beauty.
Some of the best known are:
Falls Creek Falls in Fall Creek
Falls State Park in the Cumberland
Mountains, drops 257 feet A hum
dred feet higher than Niagara. it
is the highest east of the Rocky
Mountains.
Cane Greek Falls. Pinev Greek
Falls and Old Mill Cascade are also
in Falls Creek Falls State Park.
The two falls tumble in huge VOL
ume from IS to 100 feet and the
cascade rolls over steep rocks for a
40-foOt descent.
Foster Falls probably has the
largest volume of water in the State
1t is on frey Gizzsrd Creek and
tumbles into large pool at the
bottom of deep gorge. 1t is 8 miles
from Tracy City.
Crystal Falls. miles from Pike
vile, tumbles 100 feet into a deep
narrow cove From the falls one
gets fascinating view of the beau
tiful Sequatchie Valley.
There are three beautiful water
falls within walking distance of
Monteag le-Deerlick Falls that drops
100 feet into deep. narrow gorge;
Monteagle Falls that t,lmbles 20
feet from an overhaneing cliff and
Bridal Veil Falls that is really a
cascade rushing down steeply in
clined face of escarpment.
At Ozone Falls, IL miles west OF
lockwood, the water plummets 100
feet into deep gorge filled with
thick timber and laurel.
Bald River Falls is one of the
most beautiful in the State 1t drops
in large volume for 100 feet where
the Bald River empties into the
National Forest about IL miles from
Tellico Plains.
Laurel Greek Falls is on Waldons
Ridge. about 4 miles from Dayton,
and tumbles 100 feet into Richland
Gorge.
Falling Walters, 1G miles north of
Chattanooga, is {. mountain stream
with a drop of 900 feet in 2 miles.
The initial plunge is 100 feet on the
south fork of the stream.
Rattlesnake Falls is 60 feet high
and Stillhouse Hollow Falls is an
unusually scenic cascade with IS
foot drop in a cove. Both are in
Middle Tennessee.
Sycamore Falls plunges 20 feet to
the bottom of a deep gorge in
Grundy Forest. Nearby are three
chimney rocks, one containing In.
dian carvings. Little Ptney Creek