Wild Horses of Legend

Visitors to the Cape Lookout National Seashore walk right into a fairytale. Dressed in bathing suits and slathered in sunscreen, these pedestrians watch as strong herds of wild horses gallop past. For 600 years, colonial mustang stallions have roamed the bright white beaches of the Outer Banks, persisting long past their original owners. However, days before Hurricane Florence was expected to make landfall in September of 2018, this fairytale turned into a nightmare.