You mean more walks?
They wanted to have more visitor contact. More roaming at Rim Village. They also wanted to put someone out at the North Junction and rove around the rim.
What about the boat tours at that time?
The boat tours would always have two naturalists down at the boat docks. On the day we pulled boat tour duty, it was the only activity you would have. You would have two boat tours per person, so that would be a total of four boat tours wit ha naturalist (4).
These were concession boats?
Yes. You’d have a boat driver, and the naturalist giving the story. My recollection is that the entire trip was two or two and a half hour. The tours stopped off at Wizard Island, but fairly consistently covered the outer rim. There was no short cutting. They would go to the Eastside and then stop in a little cove where you could see Diller’s Pin just below the lodge.
You didn’t hike on Wizard Island, the boat just stopped there?
We just stopped. It’s the same thing that they do today, where they stop and allow people to hike if they so choose. Otherwise they just get off for a short break on the island and get back on the boat.
