cabanas rock! – Fake Mountain

September 3, 2023 by mark

at the Tucson Zoo, they are building a giant fake-ice wall. . . winter is coming!

also in the background, a nice theme-park cabana, with a slide. . . Score!

July 31, 2023 by mark

This theme-park cabana with its sad orange tarp and chicken-wire fence, is obviously sub-par. . . but it’s not all bad. There’s a T-Rex in the background.

November 8, 2022 by mark

Wow. The theme-park cabana at the Audubon Aquarium is exquisite.

August 1, 2022 by mark

Ahoy! A pirate stronghold!

No, wait. That’s one of those silly adventure courses. Blah.

December 28, 2020 by mark

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by . . . instead I’m trapped in a climate-controlled hotel lobby with a cabana and cheap rum just out of reach. Arrgh!

March 22, 2016 by mark

The fenced-in sky of the Omaha Zoo aviary. I didn’t see many birds. Either the zoo is restocking or the birds found an escape tunnel.

Elevated wooden walkways are perfect for “nature.” They separate the humans, lifting them above the muck so they don’t get their shoes dirty.

February 21, 2016 by mark

I love theme-park cabanas. This one has everything I like: a thatched conical roof, hexagon floor plan, log beams tied together with thick rope, a wooden platform and no walls.

BONUS: the foundation is a concrete boulder embedded with fake tree roots

September 13, 2014 by mark

Some excellent concrete boulders with a Sonora-style cabana. .

February 19, 2014 by mark

No ride in Disneyland transfers you further from reality than the Enchanted Tiki Room. Psuedo Hawaiian gods and goofy tropical birds doing 1950 sing-a-longs. Yes, my friends, an animatronic utopia is still possible.