The fields at Sands Point Preserve's Hempstead House were swarming with children and adults alike during the Friends of Sands Point Preserve's first annual Easter egg hunt.

"This is our first year doing it and we got a really big turn out!" said Matt Rocchio, general manager of the Friends of Sands Point Preserve, of the hundreds of families in attendance. "We had about 6,000 eggs out there for the kids to find."

After the Easter eggs were spread in all corners of the grounds of Hempstead House, the whistle blew to begin the hunt, and a stampede of children broke out in search of thousands of colorful, candy-filled eggs awaiting their arrival in kids' Easter baskets.

"Mine's purple!" said Keira Stolowitz of the egg she found. 

With the first annual Easter egg hunt being such a success, there is no question it won't be back this time next year.

"This is the first year there was an Easter egg hunt [in Port Washington] that actually had a lot of people show up," local resident Heidi Stolowitz said. "In fact, I think a lot of people heard about it from the Port Washington Patch."