Wild Ponies are the attraction at Assateague National Seashore in Maryland. Extremely beautiful shore, wild and rugged. I'm not so sure about sharing the beach with the horses. I mean, it isn't that I mind sharing, but the poor horses get mobbed by crowds the whole time and don't get left alone. Plus there's the poop all over the beach factor. So yeah I was feeling sorry for them until they stormed out beach set-up and tried eating our trash and taking the neighbors newspapers,etc. The life-guard shooed them away ultimately, and in fact I missed the excitement as I was in the bathroom. But everybody else got the extra close-up view.