Posted on 03/24/2016 10:41:33 AM PDT by kingu
Just east of the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Florida, is a lake.
In the middle of Bay Lake is an island that Disney won't let anyone set foot on.
That's because Discovery Island is home to an abandoned park that they'd rather nobody saw.
Just across the water is another deserted park, River Country. These images show nature reclaiming what Disney left behind.
These are the only Disney parks to close permanently. Discovery Island was a nature reserve open between 1974 and 1999 and River Country, a water theme park, operated from 1976 to 2001.
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As for trespassing, Disney would have a huge liability if it let visitors crawl around unattended islands.
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That’s my interpretation, too.
Uhmmmm......That's normal Florida. It was a swamp, and reverts to same if you leave.
As for getting onto the island, if you can't, you sure are a moron. You can pull a small draft boat right up to the shoreline. If you want to be all commando about it, you can just parallel the shoreline about ten feet from the beach and your paranoid commando buddies can just roll off the side of the moving boat and walk on-shore. What a nut-job?
There used to be a show on about how nature would take over once the people were gone (computer models). I’m guessing Disney wouldn’t want to take the risk, but they could have college kids study the places over time.
Heck - Disney could do their OWN show.
Deer rifle. :>)
You apparently can’t grasp that Disney property is not intended as a nature preserve. It is property for current and future theme parks. Most of the property owned by Disney remains undeveloped or set aside for future redevelopment. There is zero hypocrisy here by Disney. Can’t say the same about you.
Growing up we had all sorts of shotguns, and the deer rifle. Still known as that now that I have it, even though I have others.
Of course there are viruses, brain eating amoebas, flesh eating bacteria, and fungus that can eat your toes off. That's why man came out of the jungles and modified their environment to their evolutionary favor. Some creatures adapt to their environment, and human creatures adapt their environment to flourish.
I think it's a very cool study to follow.
LOL!
When River Country first opened in 1976, all there was at Disney World was the Magic Kingdom theme park, the Contemporary Hotel, the Polynesian Hotel, and the Fort Wilderness campground for a cheaper vacation stay. Most people came too the Magic Kingdom, so unless you were a local who could visit WDW many times a year, you Weren't going to waste a day at the water park.
-PJ
Hey. That sounds like Washington, DC!
I just checked at a website, World of Walt, for Bay Lake and Adventure Island. The lake and the island are natural features. The idea was to use it for half-day excursions as an escape from the hectic environment of Disneyworld, but the idea never took hold.
Interestingly, if you do a Googlemaps search of Bay Lake, FL, “Discovery Island” does not even appear in the lake. However, if you Mapquest the same location, it does.
One can only hope!
Correction: Googlemaps was showing some other location than Bay Lake. Discovery Island does appear on Googlemaps.
Actualy it is property designated for whatever they want, like most property. It currently holds old not current theme parks. This is not undeveloped, this is leaving a junkyard. It is total hypocrisy. You have your facts all wrong.
And what hypocrisy do you see in me? Do tell. LOL.
Last two weeks in November.
The idea took hold for me and my almost adult children. The best day we had at the resort was counting the species of birds, spotting the gators, watching the turtles splash into the water when we got close, and observing just how fast nesting birds can stuff an old ticket booth shack full of nesting material. I swear nesting birds can move a one ton bale of dry plant matter in a day! There were some buildings stuffed so full of nests they were from floor to ceiling, only now the floor was almost at the ceiling.
Crap. I’m hungry now. Dang the luck. :>)
I went to River Country on my only trip to WDW, a week or two before the bicentennial in 1976 — must have been brand new. Always wondered what ever happened to it.
I went to Adventure Island in 1984 or thereabouts. I agree with you. It was a wonderful experience. Somewhat sanitized nature, but still a real experience. I thought back then they said that the goal wasn’t particularly to make a profit, but to provide a positive experience in an environment where everything wasn’t virtual.
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