The Wreck of The Bomokandi Bertha

No sooner is Bob Chapek named to replace Bob Iger as the new Disney CEO, a Jungle Cruise boat sinks at Walt Disney World.  Coincidence or villain? You be the judge.

The Wreck of The Bomokandi Bertha  The legend lives on from Adventureland on down At the flagship theme park that's called Magic Kingdom The Jungle Cruise, it is said, never gives up her dead When the wait times in the Standby turns gloomy With a load from shore with twenty-six guests more Than The Bomokandi Bertha weighed empty That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed On Bob Chapek's first day as CEO for Disney  The ship was the pride for this water slow ride A witty Skipper in a canopied tramp steamer "Everyone, turn around and wave goodbye to the folks  back on the dock... they may never see you again" The passengers set sail that day For a 10-minute tour, a 10-minute tour.  The weather never did get rough, But the tiny ship was tossed, If not for the waters being surprisingly shallow The Bomokandi Bertha would be lost, the Bomokandi Bertha would be lost. When the time came, the skipper joked on deck sayin' I get paid to wisecrack and the number I take out not the number of passengers I bring back Seven minutes in, he had water comin' in His safari costume shoes was in peril At 12:30 P.M., the boat bottomed out Came the wreck of the Bomokandi Bertha  Does any one know where the love of Mickey goes When the incident caused an interruption of 105 minutes? The Cast Members all say they'd have made Seven Seas Lagoon If they'd put the mechanical elephants behind 'er They didn't split up nor did they capsize They only took on a foot and a half of water And all that remains is the smiling faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters  So join us here each visit my friend You won't even get a bruise But maybe a boat load of stranded castaways Here on the Jungle Cruise!

OK, a little rough in spots with my mashup between Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Gilligan's Island theme song. This still is my favorite ride (or at least one of them). When we went to the Magic Kingdom last May, my daughter-in-law wouldn't let me ride it because it didn't "fit into our schedule." (it is a running joke between us, but seriously - the scars have not healed!) My brother said that his daughter likewise never  lets him ride this. So on our group chat of family to plan this fall's trip, the subject of this Jungle Cruise incident came up and my niece tried to take credit for us not getting shipwrecked.  LOL