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Jet Skis?
- Thread starter Iris
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Calmdownnow
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I think they used to rent them at the Sammy Duvall Watersports Center at the Contemporary, but that closed in 2018.
The Empress Lilly
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Like these?
I recall years ago some irresponsible jet skiers used to jet ski very close to the friendship boat we took to get to MK.
Club Cooloholic
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With the water quality and potential gator encounters, I would not want to jet ski those waters
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
JIMINYCR
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Things got a lot scarier when guests started drawing the gators in by continuing to give them food from the resort areas.
When the Poly bungalows on the water opened up at $2K per night , some guests were standing outside their bungalow patio and throwing food into the water to feed the nearby gators.
Goofyernmost
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The world would be so much nicer if people weren't so stupid or at the very least ignorant.
And then the child died by gator and no one can even get close to that water now. As a species we really don't deserve to survive anymore. Our hardly even educated ancestors had more common sense in their little fingers than today human has in their entire body.
John park hopper
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Honeymoon at the Contemporary in 1977 you could swim, ski, jet ski, sail etc. That was when the lake was new and the gator population was low. Gators became protected and the population grew along with dumb people feeding them now the lake is off limits
Club Cooloholic
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The amoeba are what you have to worry about more than the gators and why nobody has been allowed to swim there since the early 90s
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
They had restrictors on them so you couldn’t go anywhere near as fast as their specs…and you can’t tip em…
So nobody should have been in the water
Live a little, huh?
Kids wanted the sea raycers, and while they looked cool they were so slow it was maddening.
donaldtoo
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It’s funny, I remember way back when the first Jet Skis came out…it was something one person stood on…
jloucks
Well-Known Member
...and it was harder to do than it looked. But yea, those are what the first-gen looked like.
GraysonsDad
Member
Growing up in the 70's, we had two of these, same color and everything! So much fun!
donaldtoo
Well-Known Member
We never had jet skis, but we did have a boat, a camper on a pickup truck and a Honda trail bike, for vehicular recreation.