Wild Horses of Cumberland Island

When we were at Cumberland Island in Georgia and Dad said, "Let's go see the wild horses" I knew,  I absolutely knew, that this day was going to be awesome.

So anyway, from the beginning.  When I woke up, I could hear mom and dad making a plan for the day.  They heard that there were wild horses on the island. When Riley woke up, I told her the plan.  At the breakfast table I asked if we were going to see the wild horses, mom and dad said yes. When we got to land, I was hoping to find some horses right off the bat, but my wish didn't come true. We looked all around but we didn't find any.  I was afraid we wouldn't  see any, period.  

Riley and I climbing a live oak tree (not a dead oak tree)

Me, sitting by a very old duck pond

Finally I saw some large, brown animals.  I screamed, "Horse!  Horse!"  Riley, mom, and dad ran to see them, trying not to scare them.  When a park ranger truck rolled by, I felt a little embarrassed thinking, did he just see me, the biggest psycho in the world?  I guess he did!

"Horse! Horse!"

Horse eating Spanish moss

When the horse was done eating Spanish moss, it was trying to communicate back and forth with its mate.  It was saying, "Nay!  Nay!"  Finally we heard two nays coming from the woods.  We tried to follow him but he went into the woods too far and we lost him.  We hiked back a little bit, trying to find dad.  On our way we were stopped by the horse and his mate who were standing together.  We were very happy that they found each other.

The horse trying to find his mate

Feeding frenzy!  We saw even more wild horses later in the day

When I heard dad's whistle I knew it was time to go.  I didn't want to leave but I knew we'd be coming back the next day.  When we were out of the woods we headed to horsey beach!  There were thousands of horse prints on the beach.  I made an awesome sand octopus.

Me and my awesome octopus

That night we basically all had the same toast at dinner.  It was, "Cheers to seeing wild horses today!"

Hope all is well,

Wren
p.s. We're on our way home!