We’ve just spent two lovely days with our friend Carol taking a trip yesterday to Manhattan and today walking along the beach here in Point Pleasant. 

Tomorrow we’ll head off to visit our friend Kathy in Cotuit, MA. 

Ru

Chincoteague   

“Located on the southern end of Assateague Island in Virginia, the refuge was established in 1943 for the protection of migratory waterfowl habitat with emphasis on conserving the greater snow goose.

The refuges’ more than 14,000 acres of beach, maritime forest, saltmarsh, and freshwater marsh habitats are home to a spectacular variety of migratory birds, plants, and other animals.

The refuge is also one of the most visited refuges in the country and provides outstanding opportunities to connect you with nature.”   http://www.fws.gov/northeast/chinco/

Randal and I have made several visits to Chincoteague.  Most of the time we took bikes and it’s a great place for that.  We still enjoy it but missed having our bicycles.  And the weather mostly cooperated.

We stayed at the Best Western Plus just at the end/beginning of the causeway to Chincoteague wildlife area and these photos show the entrance and Randal walking back towards the hotel. 

Because of the hurricane this year there were very few birds and about a trillion mosquitoes.  November is supposed to be a great time to see lots of birds wintering here.

Island ponies being walked on the beach and a woman wrapped up against the late afternoon breezes.

Randal had found a short post and a flat board and made a chair.  My foot print and probably a great heron’s which had come earlier.

The small town of Chincoteague had a wonderful seafood restaurant and three used book shops.  One was closed Tuesdays when we were there but Books was open and we had a lovely chat with the owners.

Bill’s Seafood Restaurant and BOOKS the used book store where Randal bought a biography of Beryl Markham who had written West With the Night his favorite book. 

We also love the Chincoteague Island Public Library which had been quite small the last time we visited.  Now it has a whole new section and it’s just lovely.

The former library building and now the current building with the octagonal addition.

The inside was very lovely and homey except I was put off by the confederate flag that was part of a display about the civil war.

Library kitsch. 

Marguerite Henry with the real Misty…… a statue of Misty just next to the Library.

“Chincoteague Island gained national fame in 1961 when Twentieth Century Fox premiered the movie “Misty of Chincoteague”. The movie was based on author Marguerite Henry’s award-winning children’s book Misty of Chincoteague, published in 1947. The book and movie helped to forever transition Chincoteague Island from a small fishing village into a world-class tourist destination.”   http://www.chincoteague.com/

From Chincoteague we moved along to another favorite place, Annapolis in part to visit cruisers who live on a Diesel Duck named Diesel Duck!  But that’s for the next email.

Ru

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