Photography Wild Delmarva on 08 Mar 2010 07:52 pm
Wild Pony Portrait
The wild ponies of Assateague have been on the barrier Island since the 1600s. There are two stories about how they got there. In the first story, a Spanish ship sank off the coast and the ponies swam to the island. In the second story, a farmer or farmers let their ponies run wild there as there was no need to build a fence. However they made it to Assateague thousands of visitors come to the National Wildlife Refuge every year to see them in the wild.
Photograph by Kevin Fleming
on 11 Mar 2010 at 8:30 pm 1.Pat said …
We went there for the first time last summer with my youngest granddaughter and we were delighted that we saw a lot of the ponies. It was a cloudy, chilly, windy day but we had a nice time anyway. This is a great shot of one of them!