Learn more about the animals and birds that call Assateague Island home while you enjoy your visit to this shifting barrier island, with its wildlife refuge. Tourists come from all over the world to see the island’s wild horses. This national seashore offers crabbing, clamming, swimming and camping.

Wild Ponies of Assateague Island, Maryland. Photo © Roland Bynaker. Trade Winds uses a helium-filled blimp and camera system to capture one-of-a-kind photos of glorious views never seen before. The technique is known as low-level aerial photography.

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Ponies of Assateague Island
The ponies have been on Assateague for about 300 years

The Chincoteague Ponies
The story of how the ponies came to Chincotague is stranger than fiction

Photo's of the Chincoteague Ponies
by Pat Anderson

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