You’ve breached the 🚧 gate! From here, find your way to the 🏰 entrance. Drop your 🚲 and prepare to storm the fort. Visiting a 🧱 fortress might seem dry, but if you have a ⏱️, grab a free tour from a Park Ranger—they’ll turn that "black and white" history into a technicolor 🎨 masterpiece.
Find a💣 cannon sitting in front of a closed 🚧 gate. It looks like this.
This was once the only way in! Back in the 1840s, this was an offshore fortress sitting 1,000 feet out at sea. The only way to reach it was a narrow timber path on pilings over the waves. Soldiers and supply wagons moved along this "floating" roadway with the 🌊 beneath their feet.
By the 1940s, the Navy dredged the harbor and literally "grew" the island out to meet the 🏰, swallowing the moat and the path. What started as a sea fortress ended up landlocked!
🆀 11: What was that 1,000-foot "link" over the water commonly referred to?
🅰 11: Eight-letter word
Back to the 🚲! You’ll pass the 🚻 public bathrooms on your way—hit 'em now if the 🍹 are catching up to you. Once you’re back in the saddle, ride to the very 🔚 of the 🌳, cross the 🅿️, and wiggle between the 🪨 boulders. Stash your 🚲 at the stand right behind the rocks.
👣 🧭 S toward the 🌊. You’ve arrived at the 👑 of Key West 🏖️s (that makes three today, but who’s counting?). Near the ⏳, you’ll find a 🟡 and ⚪ striped 🪧.
🆀 12: What is the very last word written on that striped sign?
🅰 12: Five-letter word