Today I Learned That...Gorda Cay No Longer Exists

I'm reading the book called: Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes, by Robert Burgess, copyright 1986. The book gives bios and history of 6 treasure hunters, starting with Arthur McKee, Jr. The section on McKee starts out by describing McKee walking along the ocean bottom near Gorda Cay, an island in the Bahamas, by a dead coral reef - dead because some fishermen from nearby islands had poured bleach into the reef holes to drive out the lobsters, making them easier to catch, and incidentally killing the coral, so that once those lobsters were gone...there would never be any more. I decided to look up Gorda Cay at Wikipedia, to find out if the reef had ever recovered...only to find that the island was now called Castaway Cay and belonged to Disney, who had purchased it from the Bahamian government. All of Disney's cruise ships stop there. But, apparently, people don't stay on the island. They just get off for a visit - and if some of the reviews at a cruise review website are to be believed, the staff on the island aren't very friendly, the food is poor, and since there can be a couple of cruise ships there at a time, apparently, the beaches are all crowded with 5,000 people and if you're not lucky you're stuck int he back away from the ocean, ya da ya da. If I ever win the lottery, though, I'd love to visit this place. Apparently two of the submarines from the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea adventure ride - which used to be at Disneyworld years ago, are now located just off the beach and snorkelers and scuba divers can swim around them. That would be fun.