Assateague Island National Seashore, MD
February 17 - 20, 2006
So my buddy Alex and I had planned this 4-day weekend adventure camping trip at Assateague Island National Seashore a while back. As the time came close to the actual trip, the weather forecasted a really cold weekend... Vivi (friend), Gin (my brother), Alex and I still decided to go....
We arrived at the camp site on Friday afternoon
around 4ish and did the registration at the office. I am pretty sure the woman
who helped us with the registration was thinking out loud “what idiots!!! It’s
going to be cold and windy this weekend and you all are camping??”
Anyway, we chose the camp site that was close to the bay area. It was really
really windy but it didn’t stop us from setting the tent and fire up. After we
got the tent up and initial camp fire, we started chopping more wood, cooking
steak (mmmm yummy) and drinking some MGD (we had a little whisky too). We were
up around the camp fire, talking and drinking until about 2 AM and everybody
just got tired (from chopping wood..
)
so we all went to bed..
We woke up around 9ish and started cooking the
breakfast and setup the fire again.. We all just sat around the fire and chilled
for a few hours. Wild horses showed up and we were petting the horses and taking
pictures. They tried to rob us by taking our salad bag but they failed (I had to
do some weird crazy stupid thing to scare them away).. It started snowing (more
of freezing rain) and we all got wet. So we decided to go back to the tent and
watched a movie (The Man). It was funny as hell.. You should watch it if you
haven’t.. It’s about 4:30 PM and the sun slowly came out and disappeared again.
It’s still windy but not as bad as Friday night until later. Saturday night got
pretty ugly because the wind picked up again. The temperature had dropped down
to 16 degree late Saturday night / Sunday morning and the wind was about 15-20
mph so it felt like 0 degree… It was coooooooold..
I am glad we all had those 0 degree proof sleeping bags so it wasn't too bad at
all..
We woke up around 9ish again Sunday morning and
the wind had been much calmer, but the temperature was still low (still around
16 degree but it didn’t feel as bad as with the wind). The sun had come out and
it was really a clear day. We did our usual thing, cooked breakfast, ate the
breakfast and just horsed around.. We brought air rifles and air guns so we were
shooting targets and stuff. Oh, horses showed up again and ate our bread with
the plastic bag.. We figured they were probably thirsty from the dry bread so we
gave them a little MGD.. hehehehe
We had decided to cut our trip short of a night because we didn’t know if
it’s going to get too cold again and we didn’t have enough logs to burn for the
night so we started packing up and driving back Sunday night. We spent much of
Monday cleaning up and recover from the freezing hell..
Well, this trip definitely was worth it although it was a little colder than
I expected. We all had a great time and definitely would go back again.
One thing we
didn’t do was driving around the island and on the beach because we all were low
on gas (almost empty)..
Next time when we go again, I will make sure we have enough gas so we can drive on the beach or something... Also if we go a little more south, there
is a place for hiking (4 mile long trail I think) all the way down to VA which I
would like to do next time when we go.
Pictures are here.