In part one and part two of our Tom Sawyer Island pictorial review, we saw caves, mines, a fort and even a play area chock full of adventure. Today we conclude that adventure by visiting the final spots on the island.
When we left off, we were about to cross this barrel bridge to parts unknown, yes? As always, click to enlarge photos.
To learn more about these little guys, head over to the Main St Gazette for the full story on how they pay homage to Disney’s 1937 short, The Old Mill. (It is listed there as being in Potter’s Mill but they actually reside in Harper’s Mill which Ryan realized when we saw them together-we bloggers have a lot of details going on in our brains you know! 😉 )
And that concludes our travels on Tom Sawyer Island. We have discovered many secrets along the way, some of which I’ve left out for you to explore and find on your own adventure. I will leave you with one last secret, perhaps the most well-known of its kind among Disney fans – the Tom Sawyer Island paint brushes! If you are among the first visitors to the Island in the morning, be on the hunt for some paint brushes that Tom and Huck may have left around. Pick one up and bring it to a cast member for a fun surprise. Here’s one a fellow Disney Mom found on her most recent trip to Tom Sawyer Island:
I hope you enjoyed our tour of Tom Sawyer Island. I know I loved my first-ever visit there and can’t wait to go back and search for paint brushes myself. Perhaps the best secret of the island is, as in most things, the journey itself. I had so much fun taking time out from the fast-pace theme park atmosphere to just talk, explore and discover. As if being rewarded for our time spent stopping to smell the roses, Ryan and I got a beautiful show on the raft back to Frontierland…
Thanks for visiting, I’d love to hear your stories of Tom Sawyer Island too!
The last picture of the sky is beautiful! What a neat thing to see!
I agree, it was super cool! 😀
They would have to pry that brush outta my hands! lol…I wouldn’t give it up for (almost) anything! 😀
Beautiful shot of that sky…
Thank you Mumsie! I kind of feel the same about the paint brush but I’d be
good and just take a million pictures! 😉
I'm so happy that you have been blogging about Tom Sawyer Island. I feel like it is a neglected treasure, and I hope that Disney plans to give it some love and attention in the future. The picture of Polly's really captures the feeling that I have when I'm there – that it has been abandoned in many ways.
I also think that most people don't realize it is there or what it is! During our visit in June, I overheard a mom telling her son that the play area near the Splash Mountain exit WAS Tom Sawyer's island so he could go ahead and cross that off its list. Hopefully your posts will draw more people to the island because for many Disney newbies, it is a mystery.
Thanks, Amy. I feel the same way, and it took me 36 years to get there! My
childhood fear of Injun Joe aside, I always just thought there was ‘nuthin
good’ over there and I proved that wrong. I feel that even both of my kids
(a video-game addict and a girl that’s said she’s bored approximately 497
times this week) would enjoy it over there because it is your OWN adventure,
with some Disney touches added in. It’s a great lesson about slowing down
and appreciating things that aren’t there to thrill you in the traditional
sense. 🙂
Awesome photos! I’ve wanted to visit Tom Sawyer Island but i don’t have the budget, i am from
Sihanoukville in Cambodia. Are there any promos that i can avail to visit Tom Sawyer Island?