We’d hoped to encounter the famous ponies of Maryland’s Assateague Island on the beach. But on the day of our visit we saw them only along the highway near the entrance to Assateague State Park. These are feral horses, left largely to their own devices, one of the last wild herds in the United States. They seemed unpurturbed by us as we pulled our car over and photographed them from the other side of the road. Few were out this day, and only these two were close enough to photograph, even with my camera at maximum zoom.
Canon PowerShot S95
Nice Jim! Always dreamed of photographing wild ponies!
And to think you don’t have to go way out West to find some!
I had no idea that there would be such a thing as wild horses anywhere near Maryland.
I was surprised too!
Ancestors of the horses brought over from Europe in our country’s early years.
And ancestors of each other — this is a small community of horses and inbreeding has apparently been a problem!