July is the month that unsuspecting tourists come to San Francisco in their summer best and freeze as they try to walk across the Golden Gate bridge in shorts, while true San Franciscans run around with scarves reminding ourselves that we’ll be in our cotton jackets when everyone else is wrapped in wool trudging through snow come winter. To find the summer sun in July, you have to venture outside the city. So for our inaugural office outing we decided to take an hour and half jaunt up north for some warmth, sand, and fresh oysters. Destination: Tomales Bay Oyster Company.

While the weather wasn’t exactly balmy, the hills of Point Reyes were kind enough to hold back the clouds for our picnic.

After a brief shucking lesson we hulled our bags of 60+ oysters to our picnic table covered in goodies from Whole Foods. It wouldn’t be a SF office outing without a cheese plate and some sparkling wine.

It took us a while to get the hang of cracking open the oysters. I definitely found myself choking down a shell fragment or two along side my first few oysters, but by the end of the bags we were unscathed shuckin’ masters.

The fruits of our labor.. fruits of the sea!

Everyone had a good time bonding with their fellow coworkers…

.. some more willingly than others.

Somehow the oysters didn’t make a reappearance during the ride back to the city.

If you’ve ever driven on highway one with a full stomach and this guy at the helm, you totally get what an accomplishment that is.

Here is a taste of the experience ... wiggles.

All in all a very successful outing and a shuckin’ good time. Can’t wait to see where August takes us!