Finally Exploring the Abandoned Resort Island - Walker's Cay Generators STILL Running!!
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2017
- Season 3, Episode 12
You all asked for it, so here's 90% of our exploration of Walker's Cay. The resort and buildings were all torn down years ago, but a few interesting sights remain, such as the power station, which is still running and supplying power to the island! Hope you all enjoy.
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In the 1979 we sent a week over there. It was a booming place back then. A lot to do and the food was delicious. I owned back then a 1969 Cessna 150J. We had a great time.
I kept that little plane 1991 and sold. (72-91) only owned one plane in my life. I kinda miss. My age today is 97. Fon memories. Thank you
God bless you i hope i make it to 97 and beyond
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97 and commenting on CZcams!!!!! Stay young my friend!!!!
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Keep commenting, we want to hear more Florida keys stories!
It’s nice to see a place that wasn’t vandalized! It could be a beautiful place again! Wow so pretty!
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. I used to work for Walker’s Cay Resort in the late ‘“70’s. Don’t laugh, but I was the stewardess on their DeHavilland Twin Otter that went from Ft Lauderdale to the island each day. My husband, who was one of the dockmasters, and I lived in one of the apartments directly above the dockmaster’s office. The clubhouse had the most delicious food and the Bahamian employees were such great people. At the time we were there it was owned by Robert Aplanap (sp?) and the resort manager was a British man by the name of David. I can’t remember his last name though. I remember getting off one of my flghts and was asked to come down to the scales on he dock to stand by an enormous sailfish that had been caught that day so they could take a picture for some fishing magazine to show the comparitive scale of it. I still have the picture as well as many wonderful memories of the place. A lot of intrigue went on at the time, with Bebe Rebozo being flown over quite a few times. Nixon was president back then, the Shah of Iran was nowhere to be found for awhile and I assumed this is why Rebozo was coming over to discuss whatever was going on with political matters, since as far as I could tell, the man didn’t really fish. So many stories...
Thanks for sharing! It's been such a delight to hear everyone's stories about this special place. I fear that the times have changed, and we may never have a place that generates these kinds of stories ever again, but as long as I live I'm going to do what I can to find that place, wherever it may be :)
Sue Bowers Amazing back story. My friend and I spent 2 weeks scuba diving there in 1980s. Stayed in the hotel. Had a great time.
my old gf serviced ( if you know what i mean)--the shaw of iran there a few times in one of those apts you mentioned......
@@bradleysmall2230 omg, I remember her! We called her Barnacle Betty. $20 was a bit overpriced back then. To this day, my buddy swears she gave him the crabs. Good times, good times
@@unkatruk9932 actually under the nice clothes the shah was a nasty personal hygiene disaster and he gave her the crabs was her claim . anyway maybe your friend got royal arab crabs from a despot ruler
in the 70's I repaired pinball machines, juke boxes, etc. In 1976 I was hired by Walkers Cay to come and fix their Juke box, cigarette machine and some pinball machines. I flew there on their dehaviland twin otter. I took a lot of pictures that day and I saved a brochure on the island.
Wow! Quite the lucky job! I would love to see all the pictures if you have some way to get them to me, like dropbox or google drive.
today I found some of the pictures 3-4 are good I think Know where the brochure is and I will scan it soon and post a link to drop box
Mark Marovitch that's awesome man! Love the old school electrical mechanical pinball machines!
Yo wheres that dropbox link :)
Mark Marovitch can you share those pictures?
I remember watching Walkers Cay Chronicles with Flip Pallot, one of my favorite fishing shows
I'm astonished to find Walker's in this current state. I was fortunate to have spent three glorious days there with my family back in 1972. I was 14 years old. The waters and reef were in pristine condition and diving there was beyond comparison, containing everything you would expect to see within a Bahamian coral reef system. Huge lobster, grouper, hog snapper, conch, etc. was there for the taking with no restrictions. A memorable encounter with a large Mako shark as well as, on the second day, surfing over the reef in crystal clear water on perfect, smooth waves coming off the Atlantic stand out. This visit was a cathartic experience for me and I hope this island will be returned to it's former splendor at some time in the future. Thank you, Walker's Cay!!
It has just youtube recent vids.
The island was bought around May 2018 by Texas businessman Carl Allen.
Apparently there's a plan to have the island redeveloped by 2020.
He needs to hurry up then because times a wasting.
He just recently died in a helicopter crash going to walkers cay
H6 H6 for real
Yes. I believe a daughter perished with him, too. @@willshaw3561
@@willshaw3561 No. A different billionaire died along with his daughter in a crash near Walker's Cay in July this year. His name was Chris Cline. As far as I know Allen is still alive.
been there many a time. Used to have the Hatteras Million dollar shoot out every year. Full of big sport fish and pleasure boats. Huge deep trench off shore full of Marlin next island over was called Roosevelts Island. Conch processing and little otel. Fishing there was fantastic, every bottom fish around the reefs. Great memories never knew it went under
My boyfriend, David Dean, and I crashed into the ocean soon after takeoff from Walkee'a CAY on Easter Saturday in March, 1975. The resort, as I understood it, was owned by Robert Abplanalp, the inventor of the aerosol spray valve. David broke his neck and died on impact. I was saved by some night fisherman. Mr. Ablanalp and David were very good friends. It was sure a lovely resort back then. It was a bit frightening to see that landing strip again....
OMG!!! Condolences 🙏
Hey Nick! Love the first person shooter map in the corner! You forgot the health and ammo bars though. :-) Also, when your friend mentioned Myst, he was spot on. That game gave you such an eerie feeling; you were walking around all alone but with a sense that there was something there all the time that you couldn't see...
Haha I thought it was a good reference too!
Question: how did you get the HUD of the island put into your video?
My mom's former boss bought the lease for Walker's Cay back in the 60's and was the primary developer of the resort along with the conservation of the island. Was a fantastic place back in the day
Not your usual type of video, but most enjoyable just the same. Thanks.
One of my favourite Aviation channels!
Missplaced Oreo cookies
Yay! That means I'm doing my job.
I love the map in the top corner! Have you considered doing a video about talking on the radio? I've always felt that that's one of the hardest aspects of flying.
Oh, like in general, not the one I did earlier this month? Yeah, I've been wanting to do that for a while, just not sure what I want to say.
Friendly Skies Film lol
I'm an air traffic controller... it's really not complicated. People just complicate it. Remember, who you are, where you are, and what you want to do or where you're going. Simple. :)
stumbled across this after a year or so and watched it again. Love your dreams speech.....TY
Great video! I have been waiting for this! Can't wait to visit myself.
It's so great, you have to! :)
I first flew into Walker's from my NJ home in a Cessna Skyhawk, sometime in the mid 1960's, with my wife and two of her young cousins. We happened to arrive on its "official" grand opening and were in the company of many Bahamian officials, including its first Prime Minister (after the British gave up their possession of the Bahamas) who's name, as I recall, was Pindling. I also got to meet the Island's owner, a Mr. Robert Aplenape (spelling might not be correct) who owned the NY Bronx based company, Precision Valve, which developed the first sucessful plastic aerosol spray valve, thus making him a multi-millionaire. However in talking to him he came across as your average New Yorker and was a very personable gentlemen. He was introduced to me by his assistant right hand person, who's name I forget since this was almost a half century ago. I do remember that I was told that Mr. Aplenape was personal friends to Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo a confident to that ex-President. Mr. Rebozo also owned adjacent island just to the east of Walkers which had a very large mansion on it. We only went over to Walkers for the day in order to see the place and do some swimming, but while there but I do remember a very large twin engine PBY amphibian airplane sitting on the ramp adjacent to the runway that went down to the water. I will have to find my old log book which covered that flight one of these days. I think that I may also have some photos (probably slides) from that trip as well somewhere. I also think that we may have made a second trip there some years later with my single Comanche, at which time we stayed overnight... but that might have been at Jack Tar's Grand Bahama Hotel instead. Again the old logs would square that away if I can find time to go through them. These days all of my flying is in a Experimental Light Sport that I built in 2007.
Thanks so much for the story! Most of all on this video, I love hearing people's tales of Walker's. I have studied the history to no end since my obsession started, and have collected quite an album of photos. If you do come across anything you would like to share, I would love to see it. Feel free to email anytime, friendlyskiesfilm@gmail.com Blue Skies, friend!
Hey guys just came across your video about Walker’s Cay. Storm damage was worse than I imagined. My friend & I spent 2 weeks scuba diving there back in the 1980s. Stayed in the hotel.
I used to do shark and coral research there in the 90’s. The island was also on Shark week a couple of times back in the day. There was a tiny hotel, restaurant and bar, and saltwater pool. They catered mostly to SCUBA divers when I was there. Loved taking the seaplane there, and saw the stars like no place else on night boat trips. A very special place indeed. Definitely have some pics to dig out. Such a cool place!
Memories....Back in the early '80s when I worked for Caribbean Holidays I used to send a fair amount of guests there. Been out of the Caribbean tourism business since '92 with the demise of Eastern and Pan am. Fun to find out what happened to Walkers Cay.
Yes! I've been waiting for this video!
Also, your video inspired me to model Walkers Cay in FSX so i could get as close as i can to actually flying around it.
I'd love to see what you come up with. The resort used to be modeled back in FS2004, but the landclass data is all screwed up in FSX and the island appears about 10x larger than it actually is.
Friendly Skies Film that was one of the reasons I decided to model it. I saw your first video and flew there in fsx and was rather disappointed when it was grossly oversized. I can try to package up what I have done but I'll have to find out how to do that first. It was the first fsx scenery I ever made so it is not incredible but it's better than the default one xD
There's a ton of great resources out there about how to do it, but I'll admit that it's not easy.
Thats pretty damn cool!
I absolutely love how you've put the map in the top right corner with the viewing thingy that shows viewers where and in which direction you are looking. Best idea ever, if you thought of that just 👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏bloody good job mate well done 🍻
Thanks for the tour. I love it!
Haha I saw your comment on the other video and hoped you would find this one :)
I would name it Fantasy Island! I would get me a little Tatoo man that says, "Boss, da plane."
luv3daysgrace1 bahaha ME TOO!!!!!
Hahaha
@AZ Homes You can tell him I will pass..lol
I did a shark dive trip around 1998 with my wife and son. Back then the resort had its own aircraft that flew from Ft. Lauderdale and back. During our trip that plane was being repainted so we got to fly on one of Chalk Airline Grumman Mallard. It handled the ramp with no problem. The conch shells were from thr restaurant serving a lot of conch fritter. The island is owned and I read somewhere that they may rebuild it as a resort...who knows.
Same here was there in 91
Wow, really cool! That dock, boardwalk or whatever they called it was gapped like that to keep people from walking out the extent of it, just to try and prevent an accident if some part of it rotted enough at any point that someone might fall through!!
During the opening I was thinking, "Oh, damn, a fly-over," but then you put down and I thought, "Wow, this is a new one on me: flying out to explore and island!" I thoroughly enjoyed this video. As Sky King used to say, "Happy skies!"
Missed you guys last week :)
Friendly Skies Film so what's left after all the hurricanes?
You guys are awesome . Take me with you and I'll help pay for fuel ..supplies ..etc
Friendly Skies Film I was lucky enough to have gotten to stay at the resort when it was open. We flew on a sea plane operated by Conch Air. We flew out of Fort Lauderdale. Another one of their sea planes crashed in Miami's government cut a few years later.
The rebar you saw near the water was the fish cleaning and bait house. The blue wall you showed was the small grocery/liquor store. As you walk past the pool there use to be a club house / restaurant I watched NFL football games at the bar over looking the pool. To the right of that building use to be a 2 story barracks type building with hotel rooms in it. On the path where you saw the church there use to be individual cabins you could rent. The guy that closed the door as you walked back to the plane use to be the Bahamian customs office.
The cottages at the end of the island you found is where the staff lived. It was awesome waking up in the morning and watching all these little skiffs coming from other islands to drop the employees off at work. I wish I had 35million to buy this island and rebuild the resort so that it could be home to largest marlin fishing tournament in the world again.
Neat video. It's unfortunate that your two companions don't have the same excitement as you showed.
Silly fruitbags
Flew a 182RG there years ago and spent a few nights at the resort!! Loved it,gr8 place!! The airstrip was put in buy the Army core of engineers according to the person that maintained the generator's!! He wanted to buy the 182RG ,so we started talking!! Not my plane though🤣 rental!! I have wondered many times what happened to that place!! Thx for posting!!
And now to see it coming back to its former glory exciting
That dock was probably cut out for insurance. Even though its not a resort anymore, someone still owns it. I wouldn't be surprised if they could still get sued by someone who decided to hurt themselves out there.
My guess exactly.
Same with the cut grass they couldn't figure out. Or the locked church. If the island is up for sale, it will still require maintenance to hold its value. For pilots they ain't very bright.
"Who mows the lawn?"
The same people who keep the power station going
I’d guess the dock was broken up wave action rebounding off the sea wall then colliding against the incoming waves. The collision creates an upheaval that would destroy the dock. Similar actions took out highways after Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina. Remember when they were building Walker’s back in the late 60’s. Thanks for the video.
Hm! Interesting thought! That sounds equally as likely to me.
I spent a long weekend there and it was the most relaxing and fun place to be. I got to go deepsea fishing with the Abplanalf family on their boat. I go sea sick and Mr. abplanalf insisted I eat some crackers which I forced down and I was up and fishing within a half hour. Really nice people and so sad to see what has happened to it.
From 1999 to 2015 my husband & I owned a house on the east end of Grand Bahama. In 2000 we chartered a plane to Walker's Cay so we could stay overnight & do the very famous shark dive. It was amazing & the harbor was packed with yachts ! The hotel was "old school" but beautiful & well maintained at the time. We were so sorry to see it close !
Excellent video, couldn’t have enjoyed it more. I can’t wait until you do another one like this.
Me too :)
I went to Walkers in about 2000 when it was a bustling fishing/diving destination. It was truly a unique little island. On one night that we were there, we took a small boat over to another island close by that had a restaurant/bar were we had dinner. The bartender told us the story that Richard Nixon actually had a house on the island and at times would drink to excess in that little bar and one night the secret service detail pushed him home in a wheel barrow (don't know if it was true but it was a neat story). There was great fishing around Walkers and when you would get back in from fishing, you would clean your catch and fry some up right there on the docks for dinner. The place was one big party at night. Wish I had 14 mil.
Richard Nixon and Robert Applanalph and "Bebe" Rebozo all frequently visited nearby Grand Cay where there was a house. I worked on all the Communications for that facility, plus communications on Walkers Cay during that period when I was assigned to the White House Communications Agency. Nixon and he cronies, did occassionally drink a little more than planned, but all those activities took place at Grand Cay. Traveling 3-5 days a month to maintain the systems was a great experience and still remember the great fishing.
Did you happen to work with a Mr. John Cross? :)
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@@donaldcammel732 I Agree, the fishing was outstanding!
Pretty neat, at first I was surprised no one owns it but when you think of the overwhelming complexity of running a private island it makes for sense.
Yuuup, a complexity I have long prepared for, every crazy little piece at a time.
I wish I could go there!! My great grandfather was a former owner in the 1900’s and I’ve always wanted to visit since my mom has told me so many great things about when she used to visit!!
No kidding! Was that before Robert Abplanalp bought it and built the resort?
Worth the wait!
Yay :)
Went there on my honeymoon in 1977. We flew in on Chalk Air (amphibian) from Ft. Lauderdale. SO weird to see it again after all this time!
Let's see, $14M divided by 11k views is just shy of $1,273 a person. A big island like that? We can all share.
Even better, divided by 48,000 subscribers = $291.67 per person. Very reasonable!
Agreed
just purchase price. Then a few mill to repair the place, probably closer to 20 - 25M in the end.
Demo the whole island and have a subscriber village...
I wish ;)
7:45 that was awesome,that sound aswell 😍
love this adventure beautiful place
Coconuts are newly cut and grass was freshly cut, caretakers should be around
Who them trying to fool
Bahamian gypsy pot growers.😂. Well in seriousness too...generators ARE FED GAS. ..still on ?? Too funny.
Are you implying this is a staged video?
drone footage of this would be cool
Agh!! I know! Next time :) We plan on 3D mapping it too.
Wow! Check out Google images for "Walker Cay".
Airplanes are similar to drones imean like they both fly
OMG! This place is such an enigma ;)
Plumb forgor to mention my excitement when you found a church with pews and an organ! Outstanding! 👍
I was there in 1998 scuba diving with sharks. Were still many fishing charter vessels there. I spent a week on the island . Peter Bush from Anhueser Busch arived there the week I was there and had drinks at the bar with VP of Mercury Records. I have many pics of the island while there . It looks much different. Would be glad to share my pics.
Wow, what a place. Talk about being in the right place at the right time to meet some of the greats on that island. I would love to see any photos you have! So many people have sent me such great material, I might as well publish a book at this point, haha. Friendlyskiesfilm@gmail.com
those coconuts looked as if they were cut open that very day.
True
That was epic, woooow!👍👍👍
omg great vid. please keep this coming. please post new ones. love ya
This is like the beginning of a found-footage horror movie.
I kept thinking Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, Velma, and Scoooby were going to pop up .
Haha I think at one point I actually said, "Guys, I think we should split up to cover more ground."
Yes that's it the walkers Kay chronicle with Flip Pallet! I remember watching those.
Loved watching Flip palets, Walkers cay chronicles. Great sport fishing show.
Not abandoned!!
wow loved this video, if doesn't sum up what flying is all about (getting out exploring and seeing new places, or visiting old places) then nothing will. I try to watch all the videos you make truth is I may miss the odd one here their but I am so Glad that i got to see this one! now just need to look at raising that $14,000,000 ideally could do with another $10,000,000 to do it up!
The resort a few of us have planned tops $150M, if it's done right... I think the same thing about flying, btw :)
Amazing Place!!!
My family spent a week there in 1978!! It was an amazing place!
lol its weird seeing a video of you on the ground
I was going to ask if you guys were surprised that I had legs! XD
Friendly Skies Film wait you have legs?! xD
In the future, though, if you're going to do more of this you have to get yourself an Osmo. The jarring and shaking with every step started to take its toll on me.
Suddenly you hear a big rumble, a huge hatch camouflaged with palm trees opens and Thunderbird 3 emerges from the ground.
My dad says that my deep desire for a private island paradise is 100% derived from watching the Thunderbirds as a kid :)
That’s what I was thinking too...perfect secret base island! Im shocked if its totally abandoned...
That was really interesting! Now I want to go back.
Dude I love the map and how it shows you the view.
Yay :)
Buck seventy three and some year old cheetos. But hey great vid, and i got some cleaning done.
Happy Friday! I was happy to hear the LOST reference, I miss that show. Thanks for showing me the island, I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy it. Tonight actually.
In my dreams.
Lollll I'll see you there in our dreams! XD
My wife and I started watching it on Netflix a couple months ago. Yes, it got a little crazy and confusing (we are in season 6), but I do recall the first season when they discovered the bunker in which they had to do the computer sequence, and it was interesting going from a seemingly wild island to one with power, tap water, etc.
I just noticed a new video in which a super yacht visits the same place - now restored to new levels of luxury.
I love the little Icon you have in the top right hand corner, which shows your exact position while filming.
I always try to add something special :)
Gantry crane may have been for taking boats out for repairs etc. Looks similar to the ones we use here in Florida for the job.
I thought so too, but it had no wheels. Still could be the case, but not a "travel" lift :P
Friendly Skies Film that's a good point haha. Wheels would make that more viable
Gantry crane is for the power generation facility. Anywhere you have a large motor involved in a 'mission critical' situation you'll find one of those gantry's. For example, you'll often see a gantry like that beneath water towers that have pumping stations. Reason being that if the pump fails people will be out of water so you'll need to replace the pump motor quickly and you can't be waiting around for an appropriate lifting rig to be made available so water can be restored. In this case the electric generators are probably what that gantry was placed there for... to move the generator on/off of a truck, etc.
in its glory this was a wonderful island where people would fly their planes in to get to their huge Yachts. I have photos but I would have to dig them up. no TV, one phone and I have swam in that pool. there were 2 a regular pool and a salt water pool. they had locals that would clean your conchs and the resort food was wonderful from conch fritters to lobster omelets
Wow!! Some really smart friends you got there
Good to see you uploading again 👍
I reaaaaaaaallly needed a week off :P
Good! Look after you first, us viewers second. :-)
I'm really bad at that :P
Friendly Skies Film I'm on a 8 hour drive right now... But if I had a plane to rent, I could probably make it in about 1 - 2 hours.
FYI: Hey guys, Walkers Cay was for many years the home base of one of the worlds biggest bill fishing tournaments with scores of medium to very large sport fishermen yachts. Great fishing, not to mention the nightly parties.
Well aware! It has an amazing history!
The Shootout!
Another comment, I posted above about my travels monthly to Walkers Cay to maintain the Presidential Communications while I was in the Army in the 1970's. Myself and a couple of my coworkers were invited to go bill fishing by a couple drunks that we helped at the bar...order a part for their boat. They thought we were joking until we delivered the part the next morning delivered on a scheduled USAF helicopter. That same week the tournament drew a large crowd, and I observed David Jensen (The Fugitive) and his father participating in the tournament. Great memories. Robert Applanalph owned the facilities at Walkers Cay, but the land was controlled by the Bahamas and was leased for 99 years.
Admit it, the sellers put you up to this. I'm trying to work the financing now. If I can work 63 hours a day, 14 days a week, I might be able to afford it.
Haha Dude, just build a time machine first.
Marc Lowe Always go for more pay with less work ..
By then the price will go up. Then you can work another 15 years straight.
Marc Lowe hey I have $689.00 saved and an Oldsmobile I'll throw in
Heard about the backstory I'd say it would be too much of a risk to invest in such an island. Storms around the coast of US will increase in both strenght and numbers.
All thought the money of the island is not neccessary an issue, the re-build would be a pain.
Awesome!!!!
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for commenting :)
Used to stop at Walkers in the late 80's, early 90's every year on a dive charter we'd take. Every slip would be filled with big $ fishing boats from US, was a billfishing meca...I didnt even know it was abandoned!
Even earlier than the 90's... I went there with school chum Tommy Griffin in 1956 by seaplane, we took off by Peanut Island flying to Walkers and I remember the Dining area, Bar had slot machines that were set up for 50 cent pieces. Back in the day. There were natives living on the very end and had a little school house that became a party place every night and we danced till the sun came up.....caught my first marlin and sailfish. Some huge, and I mean huge barracuda hung around those docks....huge....had one scare the sht out of me and I still can remember him turning color and charging. I walked on water to get to safety. That's way they called it Walkers. lol
Hahaha, great story. I don't think anyone knows what it is about that island, but so many fishing world records were broken there, it has to be something special. If you have and pictures from your adventures there back in the day, I'm always collecting, btw ;)
Sorry no pics. We'd stop there to check in customs and spend 5 days diving virgin reefs between Walkers and Grand Cay, where we would stop at a bar called Rosies. That would be our 1 party night.
I found 14cents. It's a start.
Haha 0.000001% Let's goooo!
Wow. Its amazing and wonderful
Great video on an intriguing island-
Position map in corner is cool! Thx
Glad you enjoyed :)
Would be the dream to have my own personal island
I'm working on it! :D
until some massive hurricane is boring down on you, but hats off to the videographer. great vid
Jeff Griffin Naaaa it getsold fast
I wonder how you get things when you order them.
....if you have the 14M....the 600K would kill me for the generators maintenance...
Went there in 2004 from grand bahama. Ended up staying on grand cay. Shout out to Rosie. The lobster, turtle, conch and weed were top notch.
Sounds like a blast bro !
SC EM haha sea weed. Knee slapper.
i love that little map on the top right .. :)
As a 10 year old or so in the 70's we were invited by a family friend to go for a week's fishing excursion to Walker's Cay on his 55' Hatteras, which was a thrill. I have mental images of that harbor at 1:39. A gray haired guy in a dingy came puttering around the docks, my father said that Bob Abplanalp, friend of Richard Nixon. So in theory at least I saw the founder of the place cruising around. Good times...
All the broken concrete along the shore and jetty is only there for erosion control. Also, I doubt the generator has been running for 15 years. Someone must be maintaining it. Probably the owner is trying to make improvements so he can sell it.
Awesome video! I wonder wonder how it all looks like after the recent hurricane that hit Florida. Safe flights!
Right?! I'll have to get down there again soon.
Hurricane irma didnt go close enough to produce hurricane force winds on the island. It would be unaffected.
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All of your videos are outstanding.. and your visuals always impress me... but you may have reached new heights on this one with your upper right videogame-like animated map. Impressive! thanks a lot.
Glad you enjoyed :)
What a great video! Thank you!
Lol love your username.
Friendly Skies Film I know! I post allot of comments on u-tube sometimes people don't like them, so don't want my name on there? But Hello from stu a fellow pilot! 🙋
I was hoping for a 360° video..... 😞 But nice non the less. Are you going to start a fundraiser for The Friendly Skies Private Airport Seaport ? ( T.F.S.P.A.S. )
Haha If you think you can raise $200,000,000 on the internet, go for it! :P
Friendly Skies Film I'm sure you could get a lone as well 😂
Should definitely try to crowdfund the island for the channel; I'd back it for a chance to stay there and chill with you guys :D
Squshy turtle 115 oh my gosh a 360 of this would be amazing!
Do gufundmes for a lot of things. People will fund those things, then you can use the money.
I wonder how the island faired after this last set of Hurricanes. Since you priced the island, did you check on insurance?
Haha yeah, it's not pretty. About $2M/yr. More or less depending on how safe you want your investment to be.
@Soup Can Oh wow! Bummer! Reading the comments here though, it's since been purchased. How do you "fix" an island? But I guess if you can build an island you can fix one, right? 🤷
Watta fantastic place ! Abandoned ? Guys flying, boating in n out.. Perfect day trip, I guess,, for you .. I'll probably never see it. Live and fly in Europe. Thanks for the show.
I fished in a tournament there summer 85. Great place to fish offshore & dive in the sound.
"Who mows the lawn?"
The guy who rides out there in an amphibious car with an amphibious trailer loaded with lawn care equipment. Just runs right up the ramp, mows, and leaves again after getting paid via paypal!! LOL
Sort of a contrived question isn't it? Who puts a Honda lawn mower inside a Cessna and flies out just to cut the grass? LOL!
@@richardfleer1905 🤣🤣🤣🖐️ Lmbo Maybe he thought there's not enough room to keep a mower on the island. Some of the comments in the video, cracks me up. "Like the grass, someone's been mowing"! I wonder who's been mowing the grass? Gasp! Look! Shell's! 😯 Omg , there's pews inside this building! Wow, ... Wow an Organ! A whole Organ! I was expecting them to see Shaggy and Scooby and Gilligan at any moment LoL.
Really cool place. Sounds like it was awesome back in the day.
LoL, right. Lmbo, some of the statements. Wow, look it's an Organ WOW. Umm, ok looks like fresh coconuts. Like where is Shaggy and Scooby or Gilligan? 🕵️😎😂
My theory: when strangers land on the island, it's inhabitants spontaneously transform into non-functioning golf carts. You even caught one going to market with his daily coconut haul. They all freeze and turn into old golf carts as a defense mechanism, like something from Toy Story crossed with Twilight Zone.
Love it! I'd take the job of warner.
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you forgot the Transformers Movie also.
Now that’s funny
Superb
WOW!!! So COOL!!! ❤🙂
I was waiting for a tractor pulling a trailer with several armed men that start blasting away before they can get back on the plane.
Just purchased by Carl Allen, looks like he’s planning a full restoration.
No such thing as rising seas. Fake news!!!!!
wow that was very cool
Yes I was curious "when" not if this would come out!!! Thanks nick
You got it, mate :)