Comments on: Theme Park Thursdays: Sunny Wilderness https://www.steveandamysly.com/2011/09/01/theme-park-thursdays-sunny-wilderness/ Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tannerman https://www.steveandamysly.com/2011/09/01/theme-park-thursdays-sunny-wilderness/#comment-2023 Tannerman Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:36:12 +0000 http://www.steveandamysly.com/?p=2904#comment-2023 There used to be swimming allowed in Bay Lake (and the connected Seven Seas Lagoon), where Disney offered swimming and water-skiing options. The now-closed River Country water park actually used lake water in most of its rides (granted, it was cleaned first). Early 1970s advertising often showed an image of Goofy water-skiing near the Contemporary Resort. While I don't know when it was put to a halt (probably in the 1990s), swimming is no longer allowed primarily because of a brain-eating amoeba that is now common in a lot of Florida lakes. Yeah, gross, huh! However, you can still swim in the late if you sign up for Disney's Triatholon, however I believe you have to sign waivers and undergo other precautions. Thus, the lakes are pretty much just for boats and catch-and-release fishing these days. There used to be swimming allowed in Bay Lake (and the connected Seven Seas Lagoon), where Disney offered swimming and water-skiing options. The now-closed River Country water park actually used lake water in most of its rides (granted, it was cleaned first). Early 1970s advertising often showed an image of Goofy water-skiing near the Contemporary Resort.

While I don't know when it was put to a halt (probably in the 1990s), swimming is no longer allowed primarily because of a brain-eating amoeba that is now common in a lot of Florida lakes. Yeah, gross, huh! However, you can still swim in the late if you sign up for Disney's Triatholon, however I believe you have to sign waivers and undergo other precautions.

Thus, the lakes are pretty much just for boats and catch-and-release fishing these days.

]]> By: FernLaPlante https://www.steveandamysly.com/2011/09/01/theme-park-thursdays-sunny-wilderness/#comment-2022 FernLaPlante Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:14:51 +0000 http://www.steveandamysly.com/?p=2904#comment-2022 Are guests permitted to swim in that water? Could you dive off the dock or is that for the boat only? Are guests permitted to swim in that water? Could you dive off the dock or is that for the boat only?

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