Wild Banker Horses can, and do, swim into the ocean and can move to explore other nearby islands should the need, or simply the notion, strike them. The Outer Banks are mobile. What is now the Ocean side of parts of the Corolla wild horse area has been on the Sound side withing the last two hundred years, as demonstrated by the large cypress stumps on the ocean beach. (Not drift wood, actual stumps from the ground). Slow land changes are interspersed with dramatic changes during hurricanes when new inlets can appear and small islands disappear.
This picture was just sent to me by Carolyn Mason of the Shackleford Foundation. It depicts Hollands wild sister and a young stallion taking a swim.
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