We made it up to Chincoteague and decided to spend Halloween here. This island/city is the home of the annual pony swim where the volunteer fire department (saltwater cowboys) rounds up the ponies, auctions them off to earn money. It has been going for years and years, and it's quite the event. Things were pretty quiet on the island when we were there. We entered the park/wildlife refuge (got in free using our national park pass!), and started the pony search. We only saw a few grazing pretty far away. We heard that if you have good timing, you can see ponies wandering along the road, lounging on the beach. We weren't that lucky. We stopped at the beach for a little bit and collected shells, stopped at the ranger station, and then headed back to town.
There wasn't much going on in town so we decided to head north. We debated about whether or not to buy something for dinner at the grocery store, and Julie convinced Bob to keep driving. Surely, there would be a bigger store up ahead a few miles, and we could barbecue a dinner and sleep by the ocean. NOPE! We did find a really quiet abandoned marina/oyster farm at an inlet. It was a perfect place to sleep for the night. The drive out to the inlet was kind of eery - a bunch of abandoned, run down houses and lots of cemetaries. We passed a Tyson chicken plant on the highway coming in, and there were lots of old chicken houses at each farm. The chicken plant didn't stink, and there were no chickens at any of the farms.
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