Last week we published a post about hunting for pulpo (octopus) at low tide near the point at San Clemente, Ecuador. See: https://johnandmarylivingitupinecuador.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/the-great-pulpo-hunt/ In that post we mentioned that other people were hunting for oyster in the reef and tide pools that were exposed during the extra low tide.
At first I came upon people with hammers seemingly working to chip off pieces of the coral rocks.
I did not know what they were doing, so I watched for a while.