On Day 2 of Amy and her Mom visit bridges in Maine...we drove 3ish hours to midcoast Maine to check out the Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory. The Weather Channel promised me sunshine but this is all the sun/blue sky we saw:
The Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory is the only bridge observatory in the United States and at 420 feet above the river below, has the tallest and fastest elevator in the state of Maine.
Stepping out of the elevator, I felt super dizzy. I think it was more to do with the elevator ride than the being super high up in the sky.
You could see forever and ever in all directions and while the sun would have made it much prettier, it was still a spectacular view.
After we descended from the observatory, we headed to (the original) Fort Knox...the defend the harbor one, not the full of gold one.
The fort was incredible.
We went underneath into the tunnels and walked, by way of the iPhone flashlight, through some scary, dark places. One hallway had more windows:
But most of them looked like this:
As we entered the tunnels, a cannon sounded. I felt like I was in the Hunger Games!
We spent about an hour wandering around then waited to see the canons fired.
Following our trip to the fort, we hit up one last lighthouse. Fort Point was quite the traditional Maine lighthouse....black, white, and red.
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