Here is one of the Marinas...

Seagull at the marina sitting...

Seagull at the marina flying away...

"Little" - She was our vacation mascot. She belonged to Dee who came up to join our party half way through the week. Little was able to calm my homesickness for my babies back in PA. Thanks Little.

We took a boat out with other tourists to see the wild ponies...

These ponies have been on Assateague Island for over 400 years. No one knows for sure how they got there but rest assured, there are many stories. There are actually two islands of ponies. The ponies on the Virgina side live on Chincoteague Island and are owned by the volunteer firemen who take care of them and feed them grain.

These ponies you see here are on the Maryland side (Assateague Island) and no one owns them or feeds them. Their systems have adjusted to living on salt water and salty marsh grass. MMMMmmmm. That is why they look so plump. It's not because they eat alot, its because they are bloated from salt. There are so many of them that the mares are sometimes given birth control to keep the amount down to a healthy number.

Aren't they beautiful!


And on the way back from our boat trip, the little kids got to hold some sea monsters...

They found one big kid to handle the horseshoe crab...

Horseshoe crabs are one of the oldest living creatures on Earth. They have some of the best eye sight around and research is trying to understand them better to help our troubled eyes. Didn't know that, did you? You thought they were just strange looking things that washed up on the beach when they wanted to die. Well to add to your amazement - if you ever had disintegrating stitches in your mouth from surgery - it was probably from a horseshoe crab.

I of course, do not have disintegrating stitches as that would wayyyy to easy...

We also saw multi-million dollar homes from our boat...

What a life.

Back on land, we visited the Boardwalk. There were many kites...

A giant puffer fish!

Here is our motley crue - Earl, Amy & S

Here was our view from our balcony at night...

And the view during the day...

Not quit as intense, but very nice just the same.

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