It was my first real vacation on the beach since November 1995 (island of Cyprus in the Mediterranian sea), I felt that I need to be prepared. This time it was going to be a family vacation and the place had had to be carefully chosen and examined. All that I had heard about the Chincoteague island (from friends who were going there every year) were the bare facts: nice place, nice parks, nice beach and a lot of mosquitos...

There is a lot of resources on Chincoteague online.Read "Chincoteqague Beacon". I hope that my information would come in handy if you decide to spend your next vacation there as well. Using terraserver from Microsoft I created a satellite image of the islands. Everything looked so small from above (red line is a road to the beach, blue area - clamming, green area - crabbing; yellow area - the only place where you can park your car and fish from the shore as fishing from all the bridges is prohibited)