Tom, Huck & Jack (continued)

Meanwhile up on the hill above Injun Joes Cave the current drab and rundown treehouse will be turned into a pirates "Crows Nest" as designed by Tom and Huck.

Just north of the treehouse where you currently find the lawyer-monitored barrel (currently closed) and suspension bridges there will be new interactive play pieces installed in the swampy backwater around the bridges.

Ancient treasure chests that can be winched out of the muck and sunken ships that need to be drained with hand cranked bilge pumps to expose the skeletal remains of the crew will liven up the area and allow kids to burn off some calories.

The Disney's Photopass folks will also get in on the pirate act with a convincing "bone cage" from the second film hanging nearby where you can step inside and have your picture taken as a memento of your visit to Pirates Lair.

The smaller caverns around and underneath Fort Wilderness will be touched up, and snazzy new treasure effects and spooky skeletons will inhabit what are now just empty cement spaces full of dirt and the occasional spider.

The relatively new play area in the middle of the island will also get the pirate treatment. It was rebuilt back in '03 to pacify the Disney lawyers who were losing patience with all of the scraped knees and bumped heads from the old teeter-totter rock and merry-go-round rock play pieces there. The safe and sane structure from 2003 will be redone into a beached pirate ship stuck on the rocks.

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