Last yr throughout my summer time driving journey alongside the Atlantic coast of the United States, I stumbled upon a really distinctive place, one I had by no means heard of earlier than, the Assateague State Park<\/strong> in Maryland.<\/p>\n The park is situated on an island that’s 60km lengthy and fewer than 1km broad. The island is separated from the mainland by the slim and shallow Chincoteague Bay<\/strong>. <\/p>\n During our keep within the park, we had a novel alternative to camp on the seaside and spent hours bodysurfing within the large waves of the Atlantic Ocean<\/a>. <\/p>\n What was much more fascinating was to search out that the island is populated by wild ponies<\/strong>. I’m not kidding. We noticed them in every single place\u2014on the seaside and even on the campground close to the swampy islands of Chincoteague Bay. They even tried to stay their heads in our tent of their ongoing seek for meals. I took the featured picture on the western shore of the island that faces the mainland.<\/p>\n
There is not any single model that everybody agrees on relating to the origin of the wild ponies on Assateague Island. But the model I’m extra inclined to imagine is that domesticated horses have been someway trapped on the island over 100 years in the past. Since there aren’t any massive predators on the island, the horses flourished. <\/p>\n
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