Swan Boats at Lake Eola

[bigbrian-nc.com]

Hi guys,
I was a bit surprised during the recent episode to hear Kevin say that the Swan Boats at the Magic Kingdom were paddle boats that were donated to Orlando for use in lake Eola, I have ALWAYS heard that this was a "rumor that would not die", but I had not seen it pop up in some time. The Swan Boat attraction at the MK was a multi passenger vehicle not a little paddle type boat:

that picture is from my site:
http://bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc63.htm#maletic


other swan boat links (both of the first two have nice pictures):

Mike Lees, Widen Your World http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/psb.htm

Mousketeer Allisons Walt Dated World http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id42.htm


and of course Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Boats_%28Walt_Disney_World%29

 

[DisneyKevin]

Dont YOU see those people paddling?

Ya learn something every day.

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

Kevin

 

[bigbrian-nc.com]

Dont YOU see those people paddling?

Ya learn something every day.

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

Kevin

That did actually make me go back and look at the card again, you know how they always say "please keep your hands and arms inside the boat at all times" or something similar on any boat attraction? Well there was an early Disneyland postcard of the Jungle Cruise where theres a kid dragging his hand in the water behind the boat very visible in the image, yet they still chose to use that image on a postcard, I had to look to see if there was something like that here.