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This morning, we took a drive to see if we could see the ponies going back to Assateague but they had already gone at 7am. We decided to go to Assateague to look around the Nature Center. They had a bus tour of the Island to view the wildlife so we went on the tour. We saw lots of the ponies in their natural habitat. They were regrouping after their ordeal. The stallions were rounding up their mares and the mares did not want to leave their babies behind. The firemen had a hard time getting them to leave Chincoteague. They had to try three times to get them to swim over to Assateague. We also saw lots of birds. There were Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Ibis, Yellow legs, Sandpipers, geese, summer tanagers,three kinds of terns, and a Delmarva squirrel. The squirrel is grey but larger that the Grey Squirrel. It is a ground squirrel as it is too large to jump from tree to tree. They are slower and less agile.
We went back to Chincoteague to get some lunch of a pizza and the back to Assateague to the beach. We walked along the water's edge and saw several pelicans. When we left the beach,we took a walk to where the bus driver told us there was an eagle's nest. We did not see it but we did see an eagle soaring high in the sky. When we got back to the nature center, we went to a program on the Assateague Lighthouse. After the program, it was back to the motel. I took a swim before getting ready for dinner. We had a nice dinner at AJ's. We both got the fresh tuna. It was excellent. After dinner, we went down town to one of the shops. Don wanted a t shirt with the lighthouse on it. We finished the day with an ice cream at Muller's Old Fashion Ice Cream Parlor.
News from the Vorlon Wife.
Posted by tedkarol at July 26, 2013 10:10 PM