Photograph is of a pair of the wild ponies that live on Assateague Island, a bridge away from Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Assateague Island, home of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year. People come from all over the world for birdwatching, viewing the wildlife, seeing the famous Chincoteague Wild Ponies, and enjoying the miles of white sand beach along the Atlantic Ocean

Thousands of visitors come to see the ponies during Pony Penning which is held the last week of July each year. At Pony Penning the foals are auctioned off to raise money for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company which owns the ponies. The ponies are also rounded up in the fall and spring by the famous Salt Water Cowboys when they are given vaccines and worm medicine. The ponies, about 150 of them, are divided into the southern and northern herds that roam the ranges on Assateague Island.

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