11/14/2022 0 Comments Treasure island disney![]() ![]() This was the precursor for Castaway Cay and that resort opened July 30, 1998. I can tell you that I’ve been hearing rumors about the Island for quite a long time. Others say it was open briefly, but costs to keep the area up were too much, so Disney abandoned it and later built Castaway Cay on a different island. Depending on what articles you read, the Island may never have been completed and guests may never have been there. I am unable to find a date or detailed information anywhere for when Treasure Island was built and all the amenities. If you want to read the story, click HERE.ģ. Depending on what you read, the inspiration for this story was either Discovery Island at WDW, or Treasure Island in the Bahamas. There is a popular, fictional “ghost” story about an abandoned Disney resort called “Mowgli’s Palace” in North Carolina. This seems to screw most people up as to what they think they know and post inaccuracies.Ģ. Treasure Island is NOT the same as either Castaway Cay or the abandoned Discovery Island in Bay Lake, Walt Disney World. I have heard rumors about it for years, but it seems a lot of people are very confused about this. Six hours later, I’m finally getting it posted. Bottom line: BE NICE TO BAHAMIANS! Getting back to Treasure Island while I thought this would be an easy post, I found it enormously difficult to find information about it. The more I see on the news in this country (and all it’s many idiots), the more I often wish I was still there. The Bahamians can be justly accused of being more laid back than Americans who are always in a hurry to get somewhere, but super-friendly, very hard working and happy people. The club brought tons of new jobs and a significant boost to the economy, and the locals loved working with us. They had an extremely poor economy: They lived in shanties, had outhouses, and a couple of tiny villages. San Salvador boasted about 800 people when we arrived most of them descendants of slaves, and many have never been off the island. Did I mention Club Med is a French company? At any rate, please don’t pay any attention to references to “lazy” Bahamians. Usually it’s because they have different manners from us and don’t bother to humor the Americans who go to France and expect all the French people to speak English. I take offense to this! It’s like people who say, “I hate French people! They’re so rude!” And how many French people do you know? It doesn’t matter that they don’t know any, that would be their answer. (By the way, some of the best diving in the world is there!) The reason I mention my time there is because, while I was researching this post, a couple of places noted that Treasure Island employed “lazy Bahamians”. There is also suppose to be a Columbus memorial under the water, too. While I scuba dived in many places when I was there (a perk of working for the Club), I didn’t see one of the three ships in Columbus’ company, which is said to be lying on the bottom of the ocean nearby. The locals refer to it as “Columbus Isle”, because this is allegedly where Christopher Columbus really landed when he didn’t discover America (he never discovered America but I have to wait for the history books to get it right before I get on my soap-box about that). I want to note that at one point, I lived in the Bahamas for about 6 months back in 1993 when Club Med was building a $72 million dollar “village” on the tiny island of San Salvador (I have also been to Freeport and Nassau several times). ( Above: The remains of the piers for Treasure Island, Baker’s Bay) That ought to keep you out of trouble for a while! If you are too, I suggest you spend some time on a few of my Pinterest boards: “Creepy, Abandoned & Erie Places” (click HERE), “Creepy, Abandoned & Formerly Fun Parks” with tons of abandoned amusement parks (click HERE), and “Insane Asylums, Sanitariums and Prisons” (click HERE). Most people are intrigued by abandoned things and yes, I admit I’m one of them. ![]() It might not actually be a true Throw-Back-Thursday, because the small amount of information I can find on it says it may or may not have opened at all. They were two of my most popular posts so far, so I thought I’d give you the story of the third abandoned Disney “park”. They are River Country (click HERE) and Discovery Island (click HERE). I have in the past, posted articles about the abandoned Disney attractions at Walt Disney World in Orlando. ![]()
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