Day 13.256: Two Lights, plotting a miss

As Exile #2 mentioned, we had a Sunday morning visit at Two Lights State Park. We usually go there when we want to watch the waves from a safe distance, but this time we went to explore the relatively modest network of trails. We found our way through the woods to the observation tower - a rather brutalist concrete structure dating from late in WW2, when the plan was to us this tower and a lighthouse down the coast to triangulate the position of ships for the guns (never installed) at what is now Two Lights State Park to fire upon. The calculations were to be done in the wonderfully-named "Plotting Room".

As well as enjoying the tower from several angles, we were amused by the diagram showing how the triangulation would work - not quite well enough apparently (you may need to click on the image to see what I mean)!