The day after feting our eight eighth graders at their Moving Up ceremony, the entire middle school piled into the Parkmont Vans for one last trip. We spent a sunny, fun-filled day at Triton Beach on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Our visit coincided with a Moving Up ceremony of another sort. We were there at just the right time to find juvenile horseshoe crabs as they emerged from the sand to molt and grow. It was a perfect way to end a fantastic year! The horseshoe crab pictured here is probably one or two years old. (No horseshoe crabs were harmed in the making of this great day!)
