The island is famous for it's wild horses so we took a family trip to see them. In the Virginia portion of the island they have a yearly round up of the ponies that would be cool to see, but it would be a mad house. In the Maryland portion that we visited the horses are wild, but not really afraid of humans.
Flying into the Salisbury airport you get a great view of the Chesapeake Bay.
Ocean City is unusual in a couple ways. It is on a long narrow island, so there is really only one main street that runs its length and then the cross streets end at the ocean or the bay. It is for tourists, so many hotels, big/small, new/old. Lots of small amusement parks and mini-golf....so much mini-golf! We picked a beach condo on the bay and went Mid-May just as the town was gearing up for the summer crowd. A couple places were still closed and the road construction was frantic. It sounds like it is both party central and family friendly in the summer.
But the horses are there year round. Super easy to see-sometimes even from the car!
You can have the beach all to yourself pretty much if you come off season. Not sure the panorama put itself together exactly right.
Horseshoe crab!! They are huge! I think this is my first time seeing one in the wild.
This one might have been dead...the few of us around it didn't know how to tell and didn't want to just touch it. Minutes later the waves took it back to the ocean.
Barnacles are interesting.
Sunny day at the beach with playing in the water and sand.
The food of Ocean City
I only took photos at our favorite place, The Shark on the Harbor, which was amazing. Lots of local ingredients so the menu changes over time. They were packed with locals-always a good sign.
See those bourbon-pickled blueberries-yum!
Sweet potato biscuit
Caesar salad and benedicts
Fancy dessert!
Fancy drinks!
We had X-treme!! dinner night which included a stop at The Dough Roller and Dumser's Dairyland Drive-In. Basically we wanted to eat at as many interesting spots as possible so we had to spread it around. The Dough Roller was pancakes and pizza and drinks. The Drive-In was burgers and ice cream dessert.
Seacrets Jamaica: When I asked our host what was not-to-be-missed, I was told to check out Seacrets. Of course we ate there and while the food is good you go for the atmosphere. It is a restaurant/bar/night time hot spot. If you go at night there is a dress code and it will be filled with music and young adults drinking too much. If you go during the day it is family-friendly, open to the water-to point where there are some tables in the water and a gift shop for stuff.
So definitely check it out, just time it depending on your group.
