A cautionary note currently greets visitors to the beach at Assateague Island National Seashore: "Warning: No lifeguard on ...

The mysterious origin story of the wild ponies on Assateague Island ... of the larger herds lives in the Chincoteague Wild Refuge on Virginia's part of the island. For years, people have ...

Beaches, seafood, and family fun...what's not to love? Virginia's Chincoteague Island seems to glow during the magic hour—that bit of the day just before the sun begins its dramatic descent into ...

Before beginning his latest research project, Nicolas Delsol had never even heard of Misty of Chincoteague, one of the fabled feral ponies from the barrier island of Assateague, along the Maryland ...

The pony swim features hundreds of wild ponies swimming from the Eastern Shore island of Assateague to Chincoteague, where they'll later be sold at auction. Launched nearly 100 years ago ...

Thousands will line the shores of Veterans Memorial Park and Pony Swim Lane to watch the ponies make their annual pilgrimage from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island on Wednesday, July 27.

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va ... For many making the trip, the first stop was Assateague Island to get a good look at the 150 wild adult ponies and more than 90 foals that were rounded up early in ...

The delegate gave a brief history of the Chincoteague pony, which he called a "special breed" that has lived and run wild on Assateague Island for hundreds of years. Stories passed down for ...

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Buybacks are purchased at the annual Pony Auction held in July on Chincoteague. Unlike other ponies purchased at the auction, buyback ponies are returned to live on Assateague Island to help ...

includes a week-long calendar of events on Chincoteague and Assateague Island leading up to the swim on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company firefighters, known as ...

The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company holds ... will be removed from the Carnival grounds and released back onto Assateague Island to live out their lives with the remainder of the herd.