Who Remembers Discovery Island?

By Michael - March 26th, 2010

I do.

Beautiful plumage…

And it was awesome.

(Don’t worry. He was just tired and shagged out after a prolonged squawk.)

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March 26th, 2010 | Tags: Discovery Island Category: Retroworld, Walt Disney World | Email the author

9 comments to Who Remembers Discovery Island?

• Steve Tanner

  March 27, 2010 at 12:17 am · Reply

  Old school, DI… not the AK ripoff. Yeah! 🙂

• Michael

  March 27, 2010 at 12:21 am · Reply

  The way it was meant to be! Via motor launch!

• Ryan

  March 27, 2010 at 7:03 am · Reply

  This was always part of my time at Fort Wilderness. The great partwas my aunt’s family had found an injured owl that they nursed back to health and then donated to the Island. Until it closed, we were able to visit Discovery Island for free to check on the bird. When it closed, however, no one seemed to be able to tell us what happened to the bird.

• George Taylor

  March 27, 2010 at 9:39 am · Reply

  We did it 1994 during the waning years of Discovery Island.

  During that trip, we also rode the Mouse Boats at the Contemporary and Disney Village. We called that morning to get reservations at the Top of the World. And we ate there twice.

  And we only took about 36 pictures.

  WHY didn’t we take more?!?!?!?!

• Chris

  March 27, 2010 at 11:22 am · Reply

  Lovely plumage on that bird… Norweigan Blue, perhaps?

  Fort Wilderness was our home for the earliest of of family trips to WDW, and Discovery Island was a “must do” each visit. Such a peaceful counterpoint to the Magic Kingdom.

• Dan

  March 27, 2010 at 7:42 pm · Reply

  He’s probably pining for the fjords.

• WC

  March 27, 2010 at 7:55 pm · Reply

  The bird had just heard about the plan to put the Enchanted Tiki Room under new management.

• Michael

  March 27, 2010 at 8:08 pm · Reply

  HAHA and WC for the win!

  Why, if they hadn’t nailed him to the perch he’d be pushing up daisies!

  Beautiful plumage, though.

  Ryan: That’s an awesome story! Talk about celebrity haha…

  George: 36 pictures? Tsk tsk tsk…. smh, as the kids would say.

  Discovery Island looks pretty rough these days. They’ve even torn down the dock, which is kind of weird. Prime real estate, going to waste.

• beaglelady

  March 29, 2010 at 9:36 am · Reply

  I remember! It was lovely, but I felt sorry for the birds in those tiny cages. What became of DI?