Chincoteague Island Adventures

The Daffodil Festival Video Shoot

2009-04-19T08:01:00.004-04:00

Forgive me it’s been two weeks since my last blog, may Google have mercy on me. I promise to be a good blogger from now on.

I was in Chincoteague for 10 days shooting videos of the Daffodil Festival, the Decoy Festival and interviews with some very interesting people, it was great fun and a lot of work, there are 15 videos altogether and they will soon be posted to our site, The Chincoteague Outlook.

The Daffodil Festival was nothing but fun. Attended by maybe two thousand people, this two day event really did celebrate spring with music, food, crafters and artists; there were people dancing, children laughing and everyone seeming to have a good time, we did and we plan on coming back next year. To see the video go to http://www.chincoteaguecenter.com/Events/TheDaffodilFestival.asp this was one of my first “professional videos” and I would appreciate any comments or feedback on how it could be improved.

The week following the festival my wife Shelly, my partner Sam Serio and I cruised the island shooting videos of some local “celebrities” and I found it amazing how truly interesting the folks on Chincoteague are and how happy they are, I found they love Chincoteague and love their work and believe it or not enjoy the tourists and look forward to the summer season. It’s not about money many of these people don’t have to work they do it because they love it.

Over the next couple weeks videos of the locals will be posted, please check back.
http://www.chincoteagueoutlook.com/default.asp

Let The Adventure Begin

2009-04-03T07:29:00.003-04:00

Today is the day, let the adventure begin. It is 7 am we are packed and ready for our work-vacation on Chincoteague Island. It is a five hour drive from Ventnor NJ and we plan on arriving around 3 pm. My wife Shelly loves Chincoteague as I do. We go there every chance we get.

This time we will be staying at the Waterside Inn, located on the water front (what a coincidence), this will be the first time we have stayed there but it looks like a great place visit their website – http://www.watersidemotorinn.com/

Tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday we will be at The Daffodil Festival for a video shoot, this should be lots of fun and a great way to celebrate spring. The videos will be posted on http://www.chincoteagueoutlook.com/ check them out they should be online by April 15.

While there we will also create some video interviews with “local celebrities” and some film of our shopping experience on the island. All of this is being done to provide some interesting trailers that will encourage visitors to vacation on the island.

I invite your comments and critique of the videos produced, I’m a little nervous as this is a new job-hobby for me, but hopefully something fun and interesting will result.

The Working Vacation

2009-03-31T18:12:00.005-04:00

Only three days till the adventure begins. My wife, Shelly and I will be on our way to Chincoteague early Thursday morning for 10 days of fun and work. A working vacation sounds like an oxymoron but the reality is I work for a boss (me) that won’t give me ten days off in a row. So I created a job where I go on vacations and develop tourism websites, and this has become a way to have a lot of fun and find happiness in the Puritan Work Ethic.

I have a partner on Chincoteague, Sam Serio, who has scheduled some activities to practice my new job-hobby, videography. We are going to shoot videos of shop owners and feature their stores then post these on Chincoteague Outlook, next we are going to take videos of vacation rental properties with a tour of the inside and out, finally we plan on capturing some wildlife videos of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Why would this interest you? I think there is a need for visitors planning a vacation on Chincoteague Island to have a preview of things to do and places to see. The plan is not to make these videos short commercials but interesting trailers, like previewing a movie, the preview should make you want to see the whole thing.

I’ll be at the Daffodil Festival April 4th and 5th and hopefully at the Decoy Festival the following weekend, maybe I’ll see you there.

Welcome to Chincoteague Island Adventures!

2009-03-31T10:17:00.003-04:00

Welcome to Chincoteague Island's only ongoing blog and video website that features the creative photography, video interviews and stories to help visitors and locals find all that is fun and unique in Chincoteague Virginia.

Read about Larry Warwick's time spent in Chincoteague Island as he takes a trip with his video camera to capture the local businesses, shops, restaurants and things to do while vacationing on Chincoteague Island and then watch his videos on The Chincoteague Outlook.