Horsing around at the beach

When doing our research for this vacation, we read about some wild horses at the Assateague Island National Seashore which is in Maryland.  The only quick way there is by taking the Cape May-Lewes ferry from New Jersey to Delaware, and then driving to Maryland.  We wanted to maximize our time so we decided to take the first ferry at 7:30am.  That means you have to be there by 7:00am.  That means you have to leave home by 6:30am.  That means getting up early.  The ferry ride was so smooth we didn’t even know we were moving.  It also could have been because we were napping in the car.  Once we landed in Delaware, the drive from the ferry terminal to the seashore took us only about an hour.

We got into the National Park and very quickly found some wild horses.  There were four of them including a baby horse.  They were just standing by the side of the road eating all of the grass, or rubbing off old fur on the tree branches.  One horse decided to jump the small railing and walk across the road.  Because you know, the grass is always greener on the other side.

We got back into our car and headed for the State Park.  We drove around but didn’t see any horses.  We thought we should check out the beach and what did we see in the distance, more horses.  We got back into the car and found a closer parking spot to the horses.  We crossed the dunes and make our way to the horses.  There were four of them again.  They were just standing near the shoreline.  One by one the horses decided to lay down in the sand.  Karen and I must have snapped for over a half hour.  Always staying far enough away but close enough to get some good pictures.  It was like our own horse photo shoot.

The other purpose for our trip was to hit the outlet malls in Rehoboth Beach.  Delaware is the home of no sales tax.  There were three Tanger Outlets that we visited.  Making sure to walk away with something from each mall.  We didn’t have much time left before getting back to catch the 7:45pm ferry, so we picked up take out from Cracker Barrel.  Everyone was jealous as we were enjoying our dinner in the car.  I decided to start the blog tonight from the ship.  The boat was rocking pretty good.