Post #384454 by TLF on Tue, Jun 3, 2008 6:11 PM

I'm late to this discussion, but I ran across it yesterday via a Google search and thought I'd toss in what I know.

My family stayed at Kon Tiki for many summer vacations in the early to mid 70s. The pictures posted here of the map, brochure, postcard, and decal are all things I fondly remember, and it's been great fun seeing them again.

Details not found in these materials are:

• It was a really nice campgroud -- clean, nice people, not crowded
• The beach was great, as they are in that part of FL
• There was a mini golf course that also had a Tiki theme, with statues and palms and whatnot.
• Next to the golf course was a hut occupied by a wood carver who made Tiki-like masks and other things to use as home decor. My family has at least a couple of them stashed somewhere, probably in the basement, but they hung in our house for years. I also have a "necklace" that's a tiki head (probably about 4" long) on a thong that I wore proudly upon return from vacation. The hut was a gathering place, esp. after dark and being next to the golf course -- we kids loved watching the carver work, and as a bonus he had a radio tuned to a Jacksonville Top 40 station. Groovy!

You guys came close on the location, but not exactly. Bryn Mawr was already there when we visited Kon Tiki; the two campgrounds were next door to each other. I can't remember if KT was to the north or south of BM, but the two definitely co-existed. So ... it seems all traces of KT are gone. Very sad ...