the rental home on the beach for days of clamming, as a day clamming is fun and also a lot of work, and at least the adults in the crowd might appreciate the shorter return walk to a home on the beach. beach walks later in the day, after you're all cleaned up, are my preferred way to walk!
you are looking for a quarter-sized hole in the sand, and then putting a finger in the hole to check if a clam is in there. it will spit water and duck back, if the clam is in there. so you won't break the clam's shell, you dig near the hole instead 