Oyster Moving!

Yesterday the FAP group woke up VERY early to enjoy a lovely sail from Sandy Point State Park to Horn Point Labs on the Choptank River in Cambridge, MD.   Horn Point is a special place as it houses the largest oyster hatchery and research facility in Maryland.  Living Classrooms Shipboard Department runs an annual restoration project which results in approximately 100 bags of oyster shell and, hundreds of thousands of baby oysters growing on those shells, being placed in the Patapsco River.  The FAP group played an important role in that project yesterday.  As you can see it was wet and muddy work, but everyone seemed to enjoy it.  After their hard work in the lab yesterday they were rewarded with swim time and showers!

We weren't too dirty after loading the 104 bags into the truck.

Silly faces make the mud easier to handle.

Time for the serious mud and wet - cleaning the tank!

Family Academics is Underway!

This morning a fearless group of students and their parents set sail aboard the skipjack Sigsbee for a week's worth of adventure and learning.  Here are a few pictures of them getting off the dock, notice all the kids jumping into action, not so sure about all those parents still sitting there though. :)

Joe helps a student prepare line 1 for departure.

Rohan explains what a student will do to "take 2".

Ready to "take 4".

Learning what it means to "take 3".

Taking 1

And there she goes….

Have a great week!