An old shipwreck

One afternoon we visited the Maryland end of Assateague. It's a fairly long drive from the Virginia visitors' area of the same island because you have to return to the mainland, drive up Route 13 and then head back east toward the ocean.

This is an old shipwreck. Long ago it was under water but the barrier islands move over the years and now it is on dry land.

A nearby sign says that "Shoals, bad weather, and lack of navigational aids contributed to hundreds of shipwrecks along Assateague. Many wrecks were schooners and cargo vessels sailing the busy coastal ship lanes in the 1800s."