July 22, 2009, Wednesday DEER ISLE AND STONINGTON
Today we took the scenic drive all the way down to Stonington. I’m so glad that the lady here at the RV Park told us to go to this area as well as Bar Harbor. It is so beautiful and the quaint (and some huge but quaint) houses are beautiful. The port is lovely and the boats seem so tranquil. As we came up from this very south point, we went North to Bucksport. Just outside Bucksport they have a very large bridge that has an observation deck on one of the bridge towers. We went up the elevator and looked all around. You can see up and down the river, and we could also see the big 700 foot mountain off to the North! The observatory is called the “Penobscot Narrows Observatory”. It’s on the bridge that spans the Penobscot River. This is the only bridge with an observatory in North or South America and there are only 3 in the entire world. There is enough concrete in the foundation of the bridge to fill a football field to 19 feet high. The observatory is 42 stories above the river. The observatory elevator is the tallest and fastest in the State of Maine. “That’s the facts!” But what is really cool, is how far you can see and how the people look like ants when you look down. Next door to the bridge is Fort Knox. But it’s not the Fort Knox with all the money in it! It’s just an old fort built to keep the British out during the Revolutionary War. We came home tired, and of course…you guessed it…went to bed early. Old poops!
Today we took the scenic drive all the way down to Stonington. I’m so glad that the lady here at the RV Park told us to go to this area as well as Bar Harbor. It is so beautiful and the quaint (and some huge but quaint) houses are beautiful. The port is lovely and the boats seem so tranquil. As we came up from this very south point, we went North to Bucksport. Just outside Bucksport they have a very large bridge that has an observation deck on one of the bridge towers. We went up the elevator and looked all around. You can see up and down the river, and we could also see the big 700 foot mountain off to the North! The observatory is called the “Penobscot Narrows Observatory”. It’s on the bridge that spans the Penobscot River. This is the only bridge with an observatory in North or South America and there are only 3 in the entire world. There is enough concrete in the foundation of the bridge to fill a football field to 19 feet high. The observatory is 42 stories above the river. The observatory elevator is the tallest and fastest in the State of Maine. “That’s the facts!” But what is really cool, is how far you can see and how the people look like ants when you look down. Next door to the bridge is Fort Knox. But it’s not the Fort Knox with all the money in it! It’s just an old fort built to keep the British out during the Revolutionary War. We came home tired, and of course…you guessed it…went to bed early. Old poops!
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