{"id":14030,"date":"2013-10-17T03:56:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2013-10-17T03:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T10:56:36","slug":"bay-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bay-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Living on Gilligan&#8217;s Island in Newport Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/baisle.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/newport-beach.html\">NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF<\/a>.&#8211;The island in Gilligan&#8217;s Island TV series was filmed in cove at Corona del Mar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/photos\/newport-beach\/gallery-corona-del-mar.html\">a beach community<\/a> in Newport Beach. The popular location isn&#8217;t actually an island, though Newport Beach does have about half a dozen islands nearby. One of them is as close to Gilligan&#8217;s Island as you can get, considering the residents of Bay Island can&#8217;t drive cars to their homes. Nope. They can take a push cart, a golf cart or they can walk across a small bridge that transports them to their island paradise less than a mile from the famous Gilligan&#8217;s Island immortalized in the lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>No phone, no lights, no motor car,<br \/>\nNot a single luxury<br \/>\nLike Robinson Crusoe<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s primitive as can be.<\/p>\n<p>So join us here each week my friends,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re sure to get a smile,<br \/>\nFrom seven stranded castaways<br \/>\nHere on Gilligan&#8217;s Isle!<\/p>\n<p>Note: A house on Bay Island recently listed for $6.2 million. It shares good company in the\u00a0private sanctuary of 24 waterfront homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF.&#8211;The island in Gilligan&#8217;s Island TV series was filmed in cove at Corona del Mar, a beach community in Newport Beach. The popular location isn&#8217;t actually an island, though Newport Beach does have about half a dozen islands nearby. One of them is as close to Gilligan&#8217;s Island as you can get, considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}