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Assateague island maps12/4/2023 Making our way around the left side of the building toward the back via the boardwalk. ![]() Looking inside the window immediately to one side of the front door. A look inside the front right window of the building confirms that this was in fact a boathouse. Exciting! Building 1 from the right side, boardwalk. Looking down at the ocean into a mission section of boardwalk. The boardwalk, extending to the right of building 1, into the ocean. Looking toward the land at the Coast Guard Station. Hopping aboard the boardwalk for a closer look. Given the fact that a boardwalk ran from the confirmed Coast Guard Station out to the mysterious building and the fact that the fish factory seemingly had no business on the water, I had already started to suspect that this building was part of the Coast Guard station and not in fact a former fish factory. Now, before you go assuming the worst of your gracious host, it was at this point that I began to wonder if this building was in fact a fish factory as the map would’ve had me believe. Looking back at building 2 (Coast Guard Station) from shore in front of building 1. Back to center of building 1 from shore, front door. Left side and back boardwalk of building 1 from shore. What appears to be a shovel sticking out of the sand in front of the first building. ![]() A handy little sign that reminds would-be and actual trespassers that they’re in fact trespassing. Wooden remnants of the boardwalk as we get closer to building 1. Closer view of Building 1, which, as I get closer, is clearly on the water. This building was correctly presumed to be the old Coast Guard Station House. While the fish factory ruins are also present along that shoreline, we did not identify those ruins and were only successful in finding the old CG station.Īnd now, for the meat and potatoes of why you probably read this blog. Unfortunately, the Lifesaving Station, which was located near the head of the Woodland Trail, is no longer in existence.īehold, the object of my inquiry! Looking at the above map toward the southern border of the island, you’ll note the Old Coast Guard Station, denoted on the southern-most edge of Tom’s Hook. PLEASE NOTE that these photos are of the Assateague Island CG Station and Boathouse only. These photos were taken in the early winter months of of 2012, so keep in mind that these photos are not current. It wasn’t until a year or so later when I returned during the winter–and not coincidentally, mosquito-free months–to photograph the lost and lonely of this stunning island. ![]() Repelled by mosquitoes who feared neither the threat of slapping hands nor the stench of Deep Woods Off!, I vowed to return one day, armed with a map that showed me the objects of a future photographic mission: the Assateague Coast Guard Station. Whilst walking down the beach on an idyllic vacation in this mosquito-ridden paradise, I glimpsed from a distance a couple of abandoned buildings one fine summer’s eve. Hello again, happy readers! Today, I take you to the barrier islands of Virginia: specifically, the Chincoteague National Wildlife Preserve on Assateague Island.
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