Wild horses of Assateague Island

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

About 150 wild ponies are rounded up every year on Assateague Island, a small barrier island and wildlife refuge that is partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia. Volunteers called Saltwater Cowboys swim the ponies across the Chincoteague Channel to another island, Chincoteague -- this one entirely in Virginia. The ponies rest there, before being paraded to carnival grounds

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