CHINCOTEAGUE PONY CENTER | East Coast Road USA Trip!
Come with us on a road trip from North Carolina to New England!!! We got to visit the wild ponies on Chincoteague Island, First State Heritage Park in Dover, Delaware + an adventure in SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY to see Washington Irving's grave! Travel Photography & More:
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Maryland - Assateague Island National Seashore Drive (2019)
Assateague Island is a 37-mile (60 km) long barrier island located off the eastern coast of the Delmarva peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern two-thirds of the island is in Maryland while the southern third is in Virginia. The Maryland section contains the majority of Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague State Park. The Virginia section contains Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and a one-mile stretch of land containing the lifeguarded recreational beach and interpretive facilities managed by the National Park Service (or NPS). It is best known for its herds of feral horses, pristine beaches, and the Assateague Lighthouse. The island also contains numerous marshes, bays, and coves, including Toms Cove. Bridge access for cars is possible from both Maryland and Virginia, though no road runs the full north/south length of the island.
Like all barrier islands, Assateague has changed in form over the years. The structure of barrier islands is determined by movement of sand in the littoral zone, the land-facing side of the island. At one time, the island was connected to the lowest point of Fenwick Island. However, the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane created an inlet south of Ocean City, Maryland. This inlet separated the two landforms. Normally, it would have silted back due to the littoral drift that ran from north to south. However, after the storm, between 1933 and 1935 a permanent system of artificial jetties was built to preserve the inlet as a navigation channel. As a result, the island has drifted considerably westward, and the two landmasses are now over 0.62 miles (1.00 km) apart. While this process has benefitted Ocean City, creating wider beaches and better fishing access, it caused erosion problems on Assateague.
Between 1933 and the early 1960s, federal interest in creating a national seashore on the island alternated with periodic pushes for development. In 1950, a 15-mile section of the Maryland side of Assateague was plotted for development, and a paved road, Baltimore Boulevard, was constructed to traverse the new development. The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 destroyed or covered most of Baltimore Boulevard, and many of the structures on the island were destroyed. Although some private landowners on the island supported re-development, by this time the state of Maryland generally supported a national seashore and legislation was introduced in the United States Congress. After Congressional efforts did not produce final legislation in 1964, new legislation in 1965 was successful and Assateague Island National Seashore was formed.
Assateague Island - Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Located on the southern end of Assateague Island in Virginia, the refuge was established in 1943 for the protection of migratory waterfowl habitat with emphasis on conserving the greater snow goose.
The refuges' more than 14,000 acres of beach, maritime forest, saltmarsh, and freshwater marsh habitats are home to a spectacular variety of migratory birds, plants, and other animals.
Assateague Island
Assateague Island is a barrier island located in Maryland on the Atlantic Ocean.
Assateague Island is 48,000 acres comprised of near shore and estuarine waters. Its environment affects nearly every aspect of life as the waters and the island interact and change with its geography. The island is constantly changing as it is reshaped by the forces of wind, water and weather. The entire island is divided between Assateague in Maryland and Chincoteague in Virginia.
Exposure to salt, lack of fresh water and isolation from the mainland are conditions which have over time influenced the plant and animal life that inhabit the island.
The island was used as early as the 1600s as Colonists used the island for grazing of horses and livestock. Today the horses that inhabit the island are descendants of those early animals.
Over the years the island has been used as a fishing village, industrial site, as a network of lifesaving stations for stranded mariners and in an ill-fated attempt as a development for an ocean resort.
The island supports a multitude of wildlife including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. The wild horse are the islands most popular wildlife and are joined by white-tailed deer, sika a diminutive Asian elk, frogs and toads, black rat snakes, fiddler crabs, mud snails, ghost crabs, red fox, raccoons, shorebirds, snow geese, blue crab, and fish such as spot, menhaden and flounder, to name but a few of the varied species that make Assateague Island home.
The island has a road system and parking. Visitors may camp, hunt, swim, surf, collect shells, bike, surf fish, shell fish, canoe, kayak and use the Over-Sand vehicle area by permit.
Baltimore Boulevard - in the 1950s developers paved a 15 mile road they named Baltimore Boulevard and it extended to the Maryland/Virginia State line. Land was cleared for 130 side streets and subdivided into some 9,000 building lots zoned and sold for resort development. In 1962 a northeaster storm wiped out almost everything ripping up the road and destroying the few existing structures on the island. Today what remains are pieces of the asphalt road and some signs of the clearings made for the side roads. The 1962 storm ultimately lead to the abandonment of the development in favor of the creation of a national seashore in 1965 that today is the Assateague National Seashore Park.
Produced by Charles Kraus for Annapolis Landscape TV
Assateague Island, Maryland
Assateague Island is a barrier island located in Maryland on the Atlantic Ocean.
Assateague Island is 48,000 acres comprised of near shore and estuarine waters. Its environment affects nearly every aspect of life as the waters and the island interact and change with its geography. The island is constantly changing as it is reshaped by the forces of wind, water and weather. The entire island is divided between Assateague in Maryland and Chincoteague in Virginia.
Exposure to salt, lack of fresh water and isolation from the mainland are conditions which have over time influenced the plant and animal life that inhabit the island.
The island was used as early as the 1600s as Colonists used the island for grazing of horses and livestock. Today the horses that inhabit the island are descendants of those early animals.
Over the years the island has been used as a fishing village, industrial site, as a network of lifesaving stations for stranded mariners and in an ill-fated attempt as a development for an ocean resort.
The island supports a multitude of wildlife including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. The wild horse are the islands most popular wildlife and are joined by white-tailed deer, sika a diminutive Asian elk, frogs and toads, black rat snakes, fiddler crabs, mud snails, ghost crabs, red fox, raccoons, shorebirds, snow geese, blue crab, and fish such as spot, menhaden and flounder, to name but a few of the varied species that make Assateague Island home.
The island has a road system and parking. Visitors may camp, hunt, swim, surf, collect shells, bike, surf fish, shell fish, canoe, kayak and use the Over-Sand vehicle area by permit.
Baltimore Boulevard - in the 1950s developers paved a 15 mile road they named Baltimore Boulevard and it extended to the Maryland/Virginia State line. Land was cleared for 130 side streets and subdivided into some 9,000 building lots zoned and sold for resort development. In 1962 a northeaster storm wiped out almost everything ripping up the road and destroying the few existing structures on the island. Today what remains are pieces of the asphalt road and some signs of the clearings made for the side roads. The 1962 storm ultimately lead to the abandonment of the development in favor of the creation of a national seashore in 1965 that today is the Assateague National Seashore Park.
Produced by Charles Kraus for Annapolis Landscape TV
Surfer Dude of Chincoteague - Trailer 3
Destined for fame, Surfer Dude is known to many who looked for this colt while crossing the bridge to Assateague Island and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The story of this beloved wild stallion, who cared for his herd of mares over a lifetime on Chincoteague Island, is beautifully illustrated in vivid detail, from his distinctive blue eye to his white star and stripe, silver mane and tail, and chocolatey chestnut coat. His passing at the ripe age of twenty-three in the spring of 2015 touched people from across the United States and beyond. But the spirit of his gentle nature and the way he loved his foals lives on. His spirit lingers in breezes that ruffle the island grasses and in the sunbeams that warm the island ponies, and is celebrated in this story of love and the circle of life. Available at schifferbooks.com.
Assateague Fishing - May 2011
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Collecting Junior Deluxe Editions | Beautiful Books
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Ahhh - who doesn't love a stack of cheap and cheerful vintage children's books? Do you know how many books there were in this classic series of the 1950s and 60s? And which ones have multiple covers, multiple illustrators, and even in one case two different authors? This video includes an interesting history, as well as all the covers and even a selection of illustrations from *every book* in the series.
If you love these books, please chat in the comments about your fave volumes, if you're a collector, and if there are any you are looking for in case someone can help you out!
If you want to skip the history and just look at the books, jump to 5:40.
Links below to the books if you're after something in particular!
• A Wrinkle in Time:
• Abe Lincoln Grows Up:
• Aesop's Fables:
• Alice in Wonderland:
• All the Mowgli Stories:
• An Old Fashioned Girl:
• Andersen's Fairy Tales:
• Animal Stories:
• Around the World in 80 Days:
• At the Back of the North Wind:
• Bambi:
• Bible Stories for Young Readers:
• Big Red:
• Big Wave:
• Black Arrow: Stevenson:
• Black Beauty:
• Black Stallion:
• Blue Fairy Book:
• Captains Courageous:
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
• Charlotte's Web:
• Christmas Stories:
• Daniel Boone:
• Davy Crockett:
• Doctor Dolittle:
• Don Quixote:
• East O' the Sun:
• Eight Cousins:
• Fairy Tales:
• Family Treasury of Children's Stories Books 1, 2 & 3:
• Five Little Peppers:
• Freckles:
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips:
• Grimm's Fairy Tales:
• Gulliver's Travels:
• Hans Brinker:
• Harriet the Spy:
• Heart of a Dog:
• Heidi:
• Huckleberry Finn:
• Hunchback of Notre Dame:
• Jack and Jill:
• Jo's Boys:
• Kidnapped:
• Kim:
• King Arthur and His Knights:
• Lassie Come Home:
• Little Duke:
• Little Lame Prince:
• Little Lord Fauntleroy:
• Little Men:
• Little Women:
• Man in the Iron Mask:
• Marco Polo:
• Misty of Chincoteague:
• My Friend Flicka:
• Myths Every Child Should Know:
• National Velvet:
• Oliver Twist:
• Penrod and Sam:
• Peterkin Papers:
• Peter Pan:
• Pinocchio:
• Pride and Prejudice:
• Prince and the Pauper:
• Profiles in Courage:
• Rainbow Book of Bible Stories:
• Rip Van Winkle:
• Robin Hood:
• Robinson Crusoe:
• Sherlock Holmes:
• The Spy:
• Stories From Dickens:
• Stories From the Arabian Nights:
• Story of a Bad Boy:
• Swiss Family Robinson:
• Tales from Shakespeare:
• Through the Looking Glass:
• Toby Tyler:
• Tom Sawyer:
• Treasure Island:
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea:
• Two Years Before the Mast:
• Under the Lilacs:
• Water-Babies:
• Wind In the Willows:
• Wizard of Oz:
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Surfer Dude of Chincoteague - Long Trailer
Destined for fame, Surfer Dude is known to many who looked for this colt while crossing the bridge to Assateague Island and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The story of this beloved wild stallion, who cared for his herd of mares over a lifetime on Chincoteague Island, is beautifully illustrated in vivid detail, from his distinctive blue eye to his white star and stripe, silver mane and tail, and chocolatey chestnut coat. His passing at the ripe age of twenty-three in the spring of 2015 touched people from across the United States and beyond. But the spirit of his gentle nature and the way he loved his foals lives on. His spirit lingers in breezes that ruffle the island grasses and in the sunbeams that warm the island ponies, and is celebrated in this story of love and the circle of life. Available at schifferbooks.com.
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Hawkwatch at Kiptopeke on Virginia's Eastern Shore
In the opening aerial scene of this video, you can view the migratory route taken by 14 recorded species of raptors over the bottleneck of land that funnels the birds toward the Hawkwatch platform. There, CVWO biologists record information that is shared internationally with science data bases like HawkCount.org.
In this video, you will hear from CVWO's Hawkwatch educator Julia Magill and biologist Anna Stunkel about the threats raptors face resulting in endangered populations, the significance of CVWO's research at Kiptopeke, and the public education program at the Hawkwatch platform.
Since 1977, CVWO has conducted raptor research during fall migration at Kiptopeke State Park located on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Over this time, raptor populations have declined due to habitat loss and pesticides, as well as other factors. CVWO's research contributes to international data bases, scientific insight, and preservation of these magnificent birds of prey.
Visit CVWO's website to see this season's Hawkwatch data on the new Dunkadoo technology.
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Sandbar Shark Caught From Assateague Island Surf
We caught this Sandbar Shark from the surf of Assateague Island. We ended up catching a total of 3 Sandbar Sharks. I'll have videos of them up as well.
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Surfer Dude - Short Trailer
Destined for fame, Surfer Dude is known to many who looked for this colt while crossing the bridge to Assateague Island and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. The story of this beloved wild stallion, who cared for his herd of mares over a lifetime on Chincoteague Island, is beautifully illustrated in vivid detail, from his distinctive blue eye to his white star and stripe, silver mane and tail, and chocolatey chestnut coat. His passing at the ripe age of twenty-three in the spring of 2015 touched people from across the United States and beyond. But the spirit of his gentle nature and the way he loved his foals lives on. His spirit lingers in breezes that ruffle the island grasses and in the sunbeams that warm the island ponies, and is celebrated in this story of love and the circle of life. Available at schifferbooks.com.
Assateague National Park Programs for Worcester County Tourism & 'Beach & Beyond'
A 3 1/2 minute promotional spot produced for Worcester County, Maryland featuring a talk about the different programs offered at Assateague National Seashore Park for the television show 'Beach & Beyond' produced for WMDT-TV ch47 and its' affiliates, produced by unscene productions 2013.
Skinny dipping for a record in Ivor, Va.
In an attempt to help set a record, 317 people got naked and splashed in a giant swimming pool over the weekend at White Tail Resort. The people at the nudist resort in Southampton County were part of what's billed as The Largest Skinny Dip Across North America. Video by Patrick Wilson of The Virginian-Pilot.
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Assateague Island Surf Fishing Caps--We Cover the Coast
Classic..Assateague Island...High quality, hand-crafted reproduction of the Original Fenwick Island Fishing Cap worn by surf fishermen back in the 50's...with a broken-in look and feel. Our surf fishing hats feature 100% cotton construction, sandwashed in a relaxed, low-profile style and an adjustable backstrap for a great fit. Our distinctive HOOKED logo, along with Assateague Island Surf Fishing, is expertly embroidered across the front of each cap for a timeless look...We Cover the Coast
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
00:00:37 1 History
00:03:26 2 Activities
00:03:35 2.1 Hunting
00:04:02 2.2 Visitors Center
00:05:01 3 General regulations
00:06:29 4 Geography
00:07:29 5 Climate
00:08:55 6 Ecology
00:09:10 6.1 Beach
00:09:45 6.2 Freshwater areas
00:10:24 6.3 Shrubs
00:10:50 6.4 Maritime forest
00:11:17 6.5 Dunes
00:11:53 6.6 Salt marshes
00:12:15 7 Fauna of Chincoteague
00:15:34 8 See also
00:15:47 9 Notes
00:16:04 10 External links
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The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is a 14,000-acre (57 km2) wildlife preserve operated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It is primarily located on the Virginia half of Assateague Island with portions (only about 3%) located on the Maryland side of the island, as well as Morris Island and Wildcat Marsh. The refuge contains a large variety of wildlife animals and birds, including the Chincoteague Pony. The purpose of the refuge is to maintain, regulate and preserve animal and plant species as well as their habitats for present and future generations.
Chincoteauge National Wildlife Refuge with David
Chincoteague NWR, located primarily on the Virginia side of Assateague Island, consists of more than 14,000 acres of beach, dunes, marsh, and maritime forest. Chincoteague NWR, originally established in 1943 to provide habitat for migratory birds (with an emphasis on conserving greater snow geese), today provides habitat for waterfowl, wading birds, shorebirds, and song birds, as well as other species of wildlife and plants. Refuge staff manage this barrier island habitat to allow many species of wildlife to coexist, each establishing their own place in the environment. In fact, more than 320 species of birds are known to occur on the refuge. The refuge has been designated a Globally Important Bird Area, is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and designated as one of the top ten birding Hotspots by the National Audubon Society.
Through four main habitat types, Chincoteague NWR provides food and shelter for a wide variety of wildlife and plants. This barrier island refuge is characterized by beach, fresh and salt water marshes, and maritime forest -- each with its own unique assemblage of plants and animals.
The beach, characterized by harsh temperatures, lack of vegetation, and changing tides, can be hard on wildlife and plants year-round. Where the sandy shoreline blends into the dunes, beach grasses grow and secure the sand. These dunes protect the marsh and woodlands from storms and high tides and provide vital habitat for the threatened piping plover and other wildlife.
The majority of the refuge's freshwater wetlands are managed as moist soil management units or pools. These managed areas are important to all wildlife such as shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl.
The saltwater marshes which lie to the west of the barrier islands are some of the most productive habitat found anywhere. A variety of mollusks and crustaceans live and feed in the refuge's salt marshes. This habitat is vital to black ducks and many other migratory birds for nesting and feeding.
Maritime forests are located on higher ground. This habitat is primarily loblolly pine, whose pine cones are the primary food source for the endangered Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel. Several species of snakes (non-poisonous), as well as rabbit, raccoon, fox, and white-tailed deer live in these woodlands. Red-tailed hawks, great horned owls, and other birds of prey nest and hunt for food in the maritime forest.
The first visitors to Assateague Island are thought to be Native Americans of the Nanticoke clan. Although they didn't permanently reside on Assateague, they made good use of the island's available resources. In 1671 Colonel Daniel Jenifer, a mainland merchant, sparked the first settlement on Assateague Island. To avoid the mainland fencing ordinance, the colonel attained a land grant allowing him to graze his livestock and to harvest the rich marine resources.
As the fishing industry boomed, it created more nautical travel along the Assateague shore. Shipwrecks occurred as ships traveled through the treacherous shoals and offshore bars. In fact, the famous Chincoteague Ponies are believed to be descendants of shipwreck survivors. A lighthouse was built to aid sailors. The present lighthouse was completed in 1867.
By the early 1900's, Colonel Jenifer's first settlement had culminated into a small community known as Assateague Village, nestled near the base of the lighthouse. The village reached its peak in 1915 with a population of approximately 230. By the mid-1920's, however, a series of misfortunes brought an end to the village. A major employer of the village's residents, a fish factory, closed in the early 1920's. In the mid-1920's, a Baltimore investor purchased most of the Virginia portion of Assateague Island and refused to allow villagers to cross his land to reach their traditional fishing grounds. The last villager left Assateague in 1932. In 1943 the Federal government bought the Virginia portion of Assateague and set it aside as Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
Deer at Assateague Island, maryland
A grazing deer, enjoying life in a hunt-free nature preserve.