This picture, taken from island 1 looking Northeast, is of the Bay where water flows over the Thimble Shoal Channel Tunnel. There is a Sea Gull Pier Restaurant and a Gift Shop where one can stop and have something to eat or buy some momemtos on this island. Does the family remember stopping there a few years ago? Better known as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel until 1987, the bridge-tunnel has a length of 23 miles linking the Delmarva Peninsula to Virginia Beach, Virginia. There are two one mile tunnels: one as is pictured and another between island 3 and island 4 on the Northern portion. All four (4) islands are man-made. From 1964 to 1999 there were only two lanes for automobiles to cross. In 1999 an additional two lanes were open for the bridge portion only. The tunnels portion still remain only two lanes. The depth of the water is between 25 to 100 feet all along the route. The cost of the entire bridge-tunnel is $450,000,000 with the original cost of the two lanes being $200,000,000. Each took a little under 4 years to construct.
I am thinking that Bridge pictures have replaced mountain pictures on this trip. By the way there is a cost of $12 to make the trip across the bridge-tunnel.
Impressive.....I really don't like the modern day practice of naming these marvels after people....nobody worthy of this distinction today....just my opinion.
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