Our Trip To Delaware, August 2005

ASSATEAGUE NATIONAL SEASHORE

Adam standing at the roadside near a sika in the tall grasses.

Remains of a coastal shipwreck.

Laughing gull waiting for dinner to approach it unawares in the water.

A blue crab lurking below the waterline, trying to snatch bait and escape with it.

This crab appeared not to be so lucky, but its size was in its favor: crabs less than five inches across must be replaced in the marsh to grow.

Seabirds digging for mole crabs and clams in the surf of a stormy Atlantic.

The skies were quite gray with bright patches of thin cloud all afternoon.

Adam with a whelk in the visitor's center touch pool.

But this is the main view for which people come to Assateague: the ponies.