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Lewis adored it, just as Dustin had when he was that age. Dustin adores it at his present age, too. As I noted before, they’ve given Tom Sawyer Island a makeover to cash in on the Pirates of the Caribbean mania: you can have your picture taken in front of a heap of pirate gold constructed of some indestructible Disney substance. Kids today otherwise find most of the same attractions we found there in the 1970s: the floating bridge, the lookout nests, the caves–especially the caves (the fort remains closed). Here, again, is an opportunity to work off some of the calories everyone is consuming back on the Mainland.