Ponies

Island Ponies

Here are a few pictures that I pulled from my ongoing project featuring the wild ponies that live on Assateague Island in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Virginia. This one is taking quite a while to finish as I am financing it myself and shooting it on vacation time. It has been by far my greatest adventure to date. Mostly because my youngest son Michael and my grandson Dylan have been with me. They have been an enormous help.

The herd has been inhabiting Assateague since the middle 1600’s. Speculation on how they got there has spawned many local legends.

One legend has it that a Spanish ship was tossed in the night on a terrible stormy sea and was swamped before going down. It’s cargo of horses spilled out into the cold Atlantic and frantically swam for the welcome Assateague shoreline. Their descendants can be seen today still wandering the beautiful beaches and roaming the grassy marsh as they have for over 350 years.