The festival and Milton Chamber of Commerce just launched the the Coastal Adventure Passport. The booklet has five places near Milton where you're encouraged to visit and find the answer to a question in the passport. The passports can be picked up at the Mercantile in downtown Milton and returned there, or emailed to the Chamber of Commerce. All passports will be entered to win a prize.

"This time of year it's a great time of year to go see the horseshoe crabs spawn at places like Slaughter Beach," explains Anne Brown. 

Along with Slaughter Beach, the other locations in the passport are the Marvel Saltmarsh Preserve, Prime Hook, the Dupont Nature Center, and the Pemberton Forest Preserve in Ellendale. Passports can be downloaded online here.

Brown says the prize winners will be announced in early June and include outdoor adventure experiences and nature-related products.

The festival will take place by the Milton Historical Society lot on Magnolia Street. Along with vendors, a 50/50 raffle, there will be live music, face painting, entertainment, and even a film.

"We just found out that we are going to be able to show a movie called A Meeting of Migrations which is made by a local filmmaker Mike Oates with 302 Stories," Brown tells WRDE. "It's all about how the horseshoe crab spawning is connected to the migration of the sea shorebirds."

The Horseshoe Crab and Shorebird festival takes place on May 29th.