With admission to the light house, you get to go to the military museum across the street. It was cool to walk around all these hallways & see history. It was Fort Scriven & now is a museum of Tybee history & military stuff.
We didn't take pictures inside, but you can go on top of it & see Tybee. There's even one of those telescopic view things that you put in a quarter & can see more. It made me laugh bc when we first put in the quarter, it was aimed at a beach house & you could see right in there bedroom window.
A man was working on the top of the roof & we talked to him for a minute. I joked about not wanting to get locked out & he told me a story of when he was closing the lighthouse for the night. When you go to the lighthouse & want to walk to the top, they give you a little card so they know how many people are up there. At the end of the day, they have to count the cards to see if everyone is down & they bang on the stairs to tell people they are closing. At the top is a red phone you can use to call if there is a problem. Apparently, the man closed the light house because all the cards were accounted for & the volunteer at the bottom said no one else was up there. About 20 minutes later, someone picked up the red phone. Some teenagers had jumped the fence & gotten to the top of the light house & they were locked up there! He said they ran off as soon as he let them out because they would get in trouble for not having wrist bands for paying admission.
Inside the museum, there's an area with parts of the old rides that used to be at Tybee amusement park (which no longer exists), before you get to that area, is a sign that warns you to not touch anything or you'll set off the alarm. As you walk in to that room, a red light starts flashing & circus music plays, it made us laugh a lot! On the other side of the room are a bunch of creepy old dolls that someone donated. I'm not sure why. He & I kept saying that it would make a fantastic haunted house!
