Countdown to Chincoteague pony swim
Visitor numbers are swelling on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, this calendar week every bit the annual pony swim from Assateague Island nears.
The event, inwards which “Saltwater Cowboys” swim the ponies across the channel to Chincoteague for a fundraising auction, draws tens of thousands of spectators.
Cash raised through an auction of the immature stock goes to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.
The swim is ready for betwixt 8.30am too 9.30am on Midweek (US time) to coincide amongst the slack tide inwards the channel. It usually takes almost 3 minutes.
The pony swim too auction is the centrepiece of a pop carnival.
The auction volition travel held at 8am on Th earlier the unsold stock are swum dorsum across the channel.
The local burn companionship uses the proceeds to buy equipment too supply veterinarian attention for the ponies.
It is the 87th twelvemonth the swim has been conducted. The tradition began in 1925 later on 2 fires destroyed a pregnant job of Chincoteague.
Residents decided to agree a firemen’s carnival too pony-penning to heighten money for firefighting gear.
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