Hey! Want to see my vacation pictures? Chincoteague- Va Eastern Shore

[underpants]

This vacation was planned well before my brother passed away last Friday.
My daughter read “Misty” about 100 times when she was 5 or 6. She’s smart.

The Chincoteague ponies swam to shore (Assateague Island) from a Spanish ship wreck in the 17th century. The annual “pony swim” serves two purposes:
All roughly 300 horses are given annual check ups from a team of veterinarians who come in from all over.
The sale and tourism dollars fund the volunteer fire department. They recognized 100 years ago they couldn’t wait on boats from the mainland (~2 miles away).
Year round population about 3,200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincoteague_pony

I’ve added some notes to the pics.

Tuesday. Just after the storm. On our way out there were 300 yards of marsh on the other side of the signs.


Our cottage.


“Beach Boy” a descendant of Misty


Bonnie at a little coffee house tipped me off to where the young horses are cared for. Right behind the carnival grounds where the auction takes place for the adult horses







The fire department. Next pic is the annual dinner from the 50’s-early 60’s. Chincoteague museum





You don’t get customer service like this anymore 🚬


My daughter asked to substitute broccoli for fries on her fish n chips


I misread the menu to say “soft shell crab CAKE” in the Crabby Patty. I took it off and had a cheeseburger.


The food especially the oysters were right off the boat everywhere we went

Fried oysters at The Village


His noodly appendage???

Same restaurant


Still in operation



The old Chincoteague library





The James Patterson section


Good people



Park beside the library


The local theater where they premiered “Misty” (1961)

[spooky3]

1. Great photos. Glad you were able to go. Nt

[Polly Hennessey]

2. Someone's having a great time.

That’s a lot of broccoli 🥦 🥦🥦🥦🥦

[LuckyCharms]

3. Nice! Thanks for the pics! I really like that cottage.

[murielm99]

4. Thanks for the great pics.

[Clouds Passing]

5. As lovely as it is written.

I read the Ponies Of Chincoteague to my daughter. The books give the island a mystical and magical aura.

[Bayard]

6. Ponies!

I loved the Misty books when I was a kid.

Thanks for sharing!

[gab13by13]

7. Many years ago

Wife and I and little daughter walked down one of those "wild pony trails." Halfway down the trail we were assaulted by mosquitoes. We didn't know if it was closer to keep going or turn around. I put our daughter on my neck and we hoofed it back out.

Hey, it was still exciting.

[onethatcares]

8. Thank you

they're all beautiful.........

[AllaN01Bear]

9. great pics. thanks

[TommieMommy]

10. Fantastic 👍👍

[LoisB]

11. Very nice. Thank you for sharing. Looks like a beautiful place.

[GoneOffShore]

12. We used to visit there all the time. Friends had a house on Poplar Street, so we could walk most places

One of our favourite restaurants was AJ's On the Creek, and that's where we adopted one of the feral cats that hung out around the kitchen - Katie of Chincoteague.

Loved Island Creamery on Maddox Blvd for ice cream, and always bought seafood to take back to Philadelphia from one of the crabbers down the back of town. We also ate a Don's Seafood, and would play darts with the fisherman.

I do miss the seafood, but I'm making do with oysters from Brittany and the Med, and gambas from Africa.

[underpants]

13. My daughter had her first raw oyster at AJ's

Big meaty chewy ones. She had two and I had the other 4.

Cars were a returning theme. One at AJ’s. One outside The Village. A little black kitten at Stingrays just past the Bay Bridge Tunnel. It’s a gas station and a restaurant. Fantastic crab cake. Lots of locals there at lunchtime.

[JMCKUSICK]

14. Thank you Underpants,

they're lovely.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. Man, it has been a long minute since I was there.

Having grown up not too far away, going through there as well as visiting there was common enough.

Have you ever heard of 'Holland, VA.'? It is just a part of Suffolk nowadays, and it is little more than a crossroads, but it was home when I was a toddler. My brother was born while we lived there.

(A sticking point that I used often, as we were all born and bred Tar Heels. I used to call him the 'odd one out'. LOL.)