Sunday, June 10, 2018

6/10/2018 Stop #4 and 5 Delaware Seashore State Park and Maryland Assateague Island National Seashore



From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 
Tim and Linda Bunyan

"Looking out our Backdoor" at Delaware Seashore State Park




STATE PARK: Big Chill Beach Restaurant is a full service cantina at Delaware Seashore State Park! 








Upper Deck with view of Atlantic Ocean


Of course, every State Park has to have a campfire circle.  Love this one!!




We rode our bikes over the bridge to the nature side to Indian River Marina.  





Full Service Marina and Boat Operation. Charter Boats, Dry Storage, and Boat Yard, and Boat Ramp, and Supply Store, and Fuel Dock, and Gift Shop.  Brought to you by the State of Delaware!!!













There is Hammerheads Dockside Restaurant.
Hook 'em & Cook 'em full stocked bait and tackle store, and a fish cleaning area.


Tim noticed this Police Boat (Game Warden) which carries 3 300HP to 'keep up''!

This is a true Hammerhead turtle was finding its way back to the water thru the parking lot!

We went to Bethany Beach.  A village on the Boardwalk of the Atlantic.  Country Rock Band was playing and young people and adults were enjoying the wonderful evening.  There is No Smoking allowed, which added to the pleasant fresh ocean air.
 The Boardwalk has something for every shopper: Candy, Shirts, and Coffee and Fries.

Perfect weather and after dark along the ocean on the boardwalk.  This is the quiet side of our Travels and a nice respite after our last couple of weeks of our Travel START and Manhattan scenes.

Time to load up and move on along the Atlantic Coast to Assateague Island State Park.
Woodstock is ready to GO!

We pass by the accommodations to serve all the visitors. 


 Ocean City, Maryland population is 1,000 and grows to 15,000 in a Summer Season!  
One of the best U.S. Boardwalks















These happy vacationers are noticeably the happy demographic .  They are on Summer Break.  Well behaved and ready to go to the beach.


We drove on to the Nature Outpost of Assateague, Maryland.



"Looking out our Back Door" at oceanfront Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland





A day to view and be with nature.




Tim has our Passport Book stamped, here at Assateague Island National Seashore.

The Visitor's Center provides these books by various authors.  Stories about the Wild Horses of Assateague.

 



















We decide to walk on the Dunes Trail.



This asphalted road is all that remains of a Developer's Dream.  

Through the Dunes we come to the Seashore.  It is expansive and all ours for now.


Next Day out we explore by bike.  Twenty miles around the State Park and the National Park providing perfect bike lanes and bike racks at ocean entrances.

Our National Government investing in Solar ........to provide shade in the Parking Lot.

Here is an access to the ocean.  Built by our wonderful National Government.  It is solid and makes it an easy route to carry beach ware.  We are biking today, so we are site seers.

Here is the beach and sunbathers and people loving the blue skies and sunshine and surf.

The open beach and dunes of this Assateague Island.

Flying a Kite on the beach is always a fun sport.

A site seer, not us.

The Atlantic Ocean.  What more is there to say.

People having fun at the beach and the golden retriever is too!

Mom, daughter project: forming a shark (or a dolfin) in the sand.

Found a stick here on the beach to use as a writing tool in the sand.

Says it all!

Happy with ocean walk and waves.

The Ponies at Sunset.

The horses graze thru the campsites.  Settling down for the twilight.

Next day we found the horse backed in to the campsite next door.

He has carved his place of stay.

 These Wild Horses decided to have their own picnic.



Woodstock watching: All in a Day on the 2018 Travel Tour.



Departing the Atlantic Ocean to cross the great Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel into Norfolk and Jamestown Virginia.

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