Here we are on Virginia's only resort island. While there's fishing, boating, camping, fine restaurants with seafood caught the same day you eat it, Chincoteague Island (pronounced Sheenko-teeg) is much better known for...

The Chincoteague Ponies and Pony Penning Day.

While there is some controversy as to how the ponies came to be, the story most accepted is that a Spanish ship wrecked off the coast of Assateague Island. Those ponies who escaped death swam to the Island and have been there ever since.

In 1924, the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department was organized, and they made Pony Penning Day an annual event. It is held, along with the Fireman's Carnival, the last Thursday in July.

Volunteers swim horses to Assateague Island, round up the ponies and swim them to Chincoteague for the annual Pony Auction. You can see from the "ears up" posture, the ponies are under no stress at all.

The ponies are never harmed in any way. These "salt water cowboys" have never lost a pony. After the auction (and folks who buy these ponies are checked out thoroughly), they swim back across to Assateague Island for another year of freedom.

We hope you've enjoyed seeing a small part of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Let's head south now and across one of the engineering marvels of modern times.

This is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, a man-made phenomena where you can enjoy the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay on one side and the mighty surge of the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Let's take a drive along this 21.6 mile stretch between Virginia's Eastern Shore and Virginia Beach.

Some of finest fishing can be found on the Chesapeake Bay, along with pleasure boating, water skiing and swimming.

This is one of the four man-made islands which support the entrances and exits of two tunnels, each over a mile long. They cross under the Baltimore and Thimble Shoals channels.

Wasn't that a lovely drive? Here we are in Virginia's premier beach resort - Virginia Beach

Welcome to the World's Largest Resort City - Virginia Beach. After allowing the oceanfront to acquire a sort of tackiness, city officials decided to do something about it to protect the tourist industry. Money has been poured into the area for several years.

The beach is now clean, wide and regularly groomed. A wide boardwalk borders the beach. It's a favorite spot for youngsters and oldsters alike.

This is the Colonial Hotel, one of many fine establishments on the beachfront. Off the oceanfront, Virginia Beach is a large city of suburban development and countryside. It stretches all the way from the Chesapeake Bay to the North Carolina border. That's where it gets its name, Largest Resort City in the World.