Northbound to Delmarva Peninsula: Follow the Gulls to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel! 4K drive

What an extraordinary drive! The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel takes you across Chesapeake Bay on a series of bridges and tunnels over 17.6 miles. In this video, we'll travel northbound, from the Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads/Norfolk area to the Delmarva peninsula. A scenic viewpoint just before the northern tollbooth allows you to turn around, making the round-trip cost $16, if you have an EZPass transponder.
From the 1930's until 1962, ferries operated across Chesapeake Bay. The original bridges and tunnels opened in 1962, and the bridges were "dualized" in 1999. Northbound, you're obviously driving across the older bridges, and you'll notice they're narrower than the southbound lanes. Currently, a project is underway to dualize one of the two tunnels (currently, the 4-lane road reduces to two lanes, one in each direction, in the tunnels). As a result of this construction, the "island" at the entrance to the first tunnel (for northbound traffic) is closed to visitors. The new tunnel was scheduled to be complete in 2023, but obviously they didn't meet that deadline. The whole route is supposed to be 4-lane by 2040.
I made this trip in August 2024.
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