Got a late start this morning, waking around 8 AM. After breakfast, we walked behind our campsite and over the dunes to the beach. We set up our beach chairs and waded in the water. It felt cold at first, but it was really warm once you were in it for a while. The surf was a little rough and it felt good when the waves crashed against your legs. Dad didn't wade in too far---only about ot his knees. Despite the cool breeze and sun being behind the clouds, he didn't sit out very long wither ont he beach, preferring to head back to the campsite and sit in the van. I left the beach around 10:15 and we abandoned our lovely campsite. We saw some more horses around the beach as we were on our drive out.
We then headed south for about 1 hr 15 min to the southern (Virginia) part of Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, where they have a historic lighthouse and where we also saw a band of wild horses running along the edge of the water.
Then we stopped at a NASA facility on Wollop's Island, where they had a visitor's center, gift shop, and some films explaining how they use sound rockets and old aircraft and weather balloons to send scientific experiments into near space and the upper atmosphere.
Finally, we drove up the coast through Ocean City MD, Fenwick Island, Bethany Beach, Dewey, and Rehoboth Beach. In Rehoboth, we parked on the street and walked the boardwalk just after it stopped raining and saw a beautiful half rainbow over the ocean, got some frozen custard from Kohr Bros, and bought Rachel some saltwater taffy. Then we ate at the local Cracker Barrel and boondocked in their parking lot overnight.