Amateur clammers head back to their cars with their pails of clams after shellfish warden Jon Hentz gave a class to nearly 50 people at Reid State Park. No permit is needed for amateurs to dig a peck of clams in a state park.
Hentz shows off a couple of large clams.
Roxane Althouse of Woolwich leads the trek to the mudflats where the class took place.
Hentz using a plastic ring to measure the legal size of a clam as he gives a class to nearly 50 novice clammers.
Carol Carpenter of Scarborough digs for the clams that made holes in the sand.
Roxane Althouse of Woolwich, left, digs with her four-tined hoe as Susan Bateson of Georgetown, in yellow, gets information from Hentz during a class at Reid State Park.
Millie Freer, 4, reacts as her father Patrick Freer, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, finds their first clam.
Sam Kalkstein, 12, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, is awed by the first big clam he found digging in the sandy mud at low tide.
Molly McGrath of Brunswick and her son Jonas, 9, wash the collection of clams they found.
Hentz, left, discusses the history of the clam rake with Becky Kolak, a volunteer with the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust.
McGrath washes the clams she's added to her bucket.
Joe Davis of Searsmont has his clam measured by his daughter Khloe, 4, with a plastic ring given to him by Hentz.
The last of the remaining students leave behind the many holes they dug in an effort to find clams. The next tide will cover the holes.
Outdoors 
