So this week’s theme has been roads named after Baltimore. (Yes, Baltimore st. did appear in yesterday’s photo. It was the third cross st. in the picture.) Here we have Baltimore Ave. just sort of visible as it intersects the line of the picture. Baltimore Ave. is the N-S. road closest to the beach in on the south side of Ocean City.
This is a metal crab shilouette from a post on the south side of Ocean City. There are actually four other Maryland related items on the post. I’ll “post “more as appropriate.
In case anyone was wondering what a white marlin, or what fish in general, looklike. Here’s an example.
The biggest marlin was a little smaller than yesterday’s tuna weight, but if you go to the site you should check out the blue marlin pictures, as the blue marlin nearly reached 1000 lbs.
Also of note, it was not me in the hat yesterday. In fact, I failed to give photo credit to guest photographer Shelly, who was on location at the tournament while I was on location at my office.
The White Marlin Open took place last week in Ocean City. You can read more here, www.whitemarlinopen.com. In the mean time today’s picture comes from the weigh in for the winner of the tuna category. This was caught last thursday.
Berlin, MD is a great town for many reasons. It’s hard to argue with any town whose name was derived from the mispronunciation of one of its original buildings, a tavern called The Burley Inn. As you all know I’m quite guilty of spelling errors, and as such, I feel as though I have to forgive people for pronunciation errors, which are like the more popular cousins of spelling errors.
Berlin today features a downtown area that has been restored lovingly by the community and today features a very pleasant and welcoming feel. The town has an ice cream shop, a boot-maker, and antique shops as well. It’s just 7 miles from Ocean City, and well worth the trip if you want to go somewhere to have a relaxing break or spend a night away from “all the hustle and bustle.”
Ok last horse picture. Just thought I’d post something less somber after yesterday’s picture.
Actually I had plans for this day’s post, but when I took a trip to go photograph a pretty cool historic site I had heard about in Rockville, I got there and realized that I had left the memory card out of my camera. As such, we have horses again today. I promise there will be less horse pictures in the future. (that said, I think this is the best of the horse pictures)
That black strip in the middle of the picture is not some sort of volcanic rock, as some of us had hypothesized it to be. It is asphault. It turns out that, as a real suprise, some developer in the 50′s tried to develop Assateague and paved a road all the way down to the VA border. Soon thereafter, a storm came and washed much of the road away. It was then decided that the island might not be the best place for a development and from all of that, the national seashore was started.
This guy doesn’t have the full fledged “jim from the office” haircut, like Tony from yesterday, that makes the Assategue horses so famous. However, we’ll still post him becasue he was comically unafraid of anyone in the parking lot. However, that’s not to say he shouldn’t be afraid. Some guy nearby had tried to feed him a watermelon, and when this pony refused, the guy threw the watermelon (slice) at him. Seems like a bit of a harsh response to an animal that decided not to take human food.
Anyway, here’s some more trivia: There are around 6 different types of snakes on the island. Sometimes when you see a snake, you think its a good idea to take a picture of it. When I saw a snake, I thought it was a good idea to run away like a 5 year old. So you get a picture of this horse instead of a picture of a snake. Sorry.
This Guy! Yup. This is one of the wild ponies of Assateague Island. This guy and his family are decendents of formerly domesticated horses who were raised on the island to avoid the need for pens and to avoid all sorts of other containment issues. These days, there’s noone domesticating them, but they are not very bothered by humans. They’ll graze right next to you and even come up to your car. You’re not allowed to feed them and you can’t touch them, but they are pretty cool to see. I was told at work today that they also bite, so if you’ve been bitten by a horse please share your story.
The problem is that assateague is a big place, so if they are all together, you might have to go looking for them. This guy (named Tony) was grazing by himself in the parking lot, so there wasn’t much looking around.
One more thing to note about the horses: there are two herds, one in Maryland and one in the commonwealth to the south. They are separated by a fence, which is clearly unnecessary since an MD Pony need not leave the land of pleasant living and becasue, even if those VA horses tried to come up to MD, the northbound VA horses would be undoubtedly turned around and led back to the place they came from by a slew of terrible signage.
