When the daylight low tides returned each spring, the people would travel to the clam beds to gather the rich bounty uncovered with each cycle. Camano Head, at the south end of Camano Island and in sight of Tulalip Bay was a favorite, and very productive, clamming site. Before 1840 this beach was overhung with a massive outcrop of soil and rock. The area underneath had been undercut by wind and waves. One unfortunate spring day this land gave way as over 100 people, mostly women and children, were gathering clams below. Not only were these people lost, but many more perished in the wave that hit nearby Hat Island.