Chincoteague--MY Take

So, my gnome hijacked my blog last night, huh?  I'll post about the morning walk he didn't get to take. ;o)

B and I slept in until 8:00 Saturday morning--unheard of around here.  After a quick breakfast, I was ready for a walk.  We decided to walk across the bridge to Assateague and see what we could get into.  But first, we visited with the Chincoteague ponies in the corral outside our hotel.  Did any of you read Misty of Chincoteague when you were younger (or more recently)?  These are some of the famous Chincoteague ponies.

We were on the bridge at this point, looking across to Assateague and the lighthouse in the distance.

The bridge crosses wetlands and a channel of some sort (I'm sure I could look it up and give you the info but I'm feeling lazy) and the tide was on its way out.  We could see oysters and oyster beds lurking along the bottom.  Brien and I were marveling that there was a time long ago when the Chesapeake Bay was so clear you could see the bottom as far as the eye could see.

We were the only walkers we saw.  There were some joggers and lots and lots of cyclists.  As we were walking B pointed out some American flags off to the right.  He said he had seen them last August and we scooted off to see if it was the cemetery he thought it to be. 

It was. 

Check out the dates on this headstone. It's an old cemetery.

This headstone was for a baby and is barely legible now.  I tried.

As we continued our walk we saw the lighthouse was open until that afternoon.  Having climbed the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (and let me say holy smokes what a climb!), I was anxious to get inside the Assateague Lighthouse (anyone else out there as fascinated by lighthouses as I am?).  I've been to the Assateague light numerous times, and this was my first chance to get inside.

There were wonderful little tidbits of information distributed on each level as we stepped to the windows to look out.  I'm truly a nerd in that I love to gather information (about things which interest me, mind you), and the history of lighthouses is simply fascinating.

As I discovered at the Cape Hatteras light, there was the most delicious breeze at the top of the lighthouse and it seemed you could see forever.  As a funny aside, I had turned on Map My Run to track my miles for the morning and the map had a circle where I had climbed up and down the lighthouse. :oP

I'm not sure what this is, but it was fuzzy and I loved the Fibonacci sequence.  (Yes, I really am that big a nerd.)

Not that you can even hope to see them, but after we got back on the road, we saw the ponies off in the distance.

We also saw lots and lots of waterfowl.

Check out this green heron.

There was a sign with the history of the ponies so I of course had to take a photo.  See the references to nerdom above.

That spot of red at the top of the No Parking sign caught my eye.  Sure, I have red-winged blackbirds here at home, but I still enjoyed seeing him.

We decided it was time to head back for lunch and I snapped another photo of the wetlands before we left.

After lunch we stopped to visit with the corralled ponies once more.

Look at this sweet little lady.  She was lying down when we came out and I was trying to get a shot of her teeny little hooves when she stood up.

That's okay, I didn't mind getting a photo of her tiny little body and knobby knees.  She was very young from the looks of her.  Her mane is still baby hair and her tail is simply a tail, no long hair as of yet.

Here's the other foal in the corral.  I know he looks dead, but he too was lying down.  It would seem 1:00 is nap time for ALL babies, human and animal. :o) It was hot, he had a full tummy and it was time to sleep.

After lunch we took a quick tour of the tourist shops (I fell in love with a rather upscale one--shocker, I know), after which I managed to badger poor Brien into renting bikes.  Whee!!

To be continued...

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Sparklies:

1.  This was the last photo I got with my little camera Saturday evening:

2.  I had carpool duty this evening, and babysat Sydney and Alicia so their families could attend their older siblings' promotion ceremony.
3.  It's hot, but the humidity has been low which is lovely.
4.  A fun trip to TJ's where I saw a former student.
5. Lil looks like a little fish.  I swear, two weeks in and the girl is actually starting to swim!

No milestones.