Across the Water Bridge from the Seven Seas Lagoon and behind Disney's Contemporary Resort is the beautiful Bay Lake.

A review of Four Decades of Magic: Celebrating the First Forty Years of Disney World: a collection of essays, compiled by Chad Denver Emerson

Disney's Contemporary Resort pools don't get their fair share of the spotlight in our opinion. When people talk pools in Disney, they always mention Uzima Springs at Animal Kingdom Lodge or Stormalong Bay at the Yacht and Beach Clubs, which are both great pools, but I haven't found any pool as relaxing and rejuvenating as those at the Contemporary. So I figured it would be fun to do a blog post highlighting these little oases of relaxation!

A casual glance at a vintage 1975 Walt Disney World brochure sent us to investigating this theme parkeology mystery. Accompanying the section of the brochure entitled A World of Resorts was a photograph featuring numerous rental watercrafts: sailboats, a paddleboat, and a very odd, and heretofore unknown to us, round boat with a red and white striped canopy.

For all that the trail once was, it still carries rugged backwoods, quiet views of the Contemporary , Bay Lake Towers, and the Magic Kingdom, and pieces of Walt Disney World history known to few and sought out by even fewer guests along its trail.