Where did the clean water come from on Gilligan's Island?

They go on a 3 hour tour and are stranded among salt water. What are they drinking? Somehow they always have food and clean cloths. I can overlook that. You can wash things and find fruit growing. It's a 60's comedy that does not address the serious situation the show's plot really is.

Did I miss the episode where the Professor invented a dealanation machine with his limited 3 hour tour supplies?

 

There’s a fresh water spring on Gilligan’s Island so it wasn’t necessary for the professor to build a desalination machine.

After the spring dries up Gilligan stumbles upon an underground cave filled with fresh water. -

 

Recycled urine

 

rain.

and yes, distilation. you got something you can heat without destroying that can hold liquid, you can distil water.
and remember they did have at least one member who knew how to do that.
and remember how they kept coming up with stuff to make things with that they rescued from the boat.

so while it would have been a deadly problem for the ditsier memebers of the crew,
not everyone was.

and there was abundant vegitation for a fuel supply too.

the one thing that was overlooked to make a funny show about it,
was how much of their time, virtually all of it,
would be spent on basic things like this to survive though.

but people could still enjoy their time doing so,
because other then consideration for each other,
you'd be completely free how you went about it.

not quite sure why anyone really wanted to be 'rescued',
other then the ditsier members again,
who missed having a mall to go shopping.

 

they were pretty thirsty by the end of the series.

 

They got it from the tap located just off set...

 

Suspension of disbelief.

 

Actually, even if there is no surface fresh water, you can dig a small well behind the sand dunes on any island and get drinkable water. It still tastes a bit salty but it's good enough to sustain you.

 

In Hawaii, you can drive right past Gilligan's Island, and in places like Hawaii you get a thousand water falls a day on half the island, because the trade winds make it rain like clockwork for one hour. A desert island like Gilligan's Island, is always one half rainforest and one half desert, because the prevailing winds blow the clouds right around the mountains, rather than over them. Of course, the real Gillian's Island is maybe a 150ft in diameter and depends on the Island of Oahu for all its rain. It is on the side of the Island with all the sharks and nobody goes there that I know of.

The rain clouds are created by Hawaii being 2,000 miles from anywhere. The sun comes up over the ocean so far away it forms rain clouds every day, and they hit Hawaii around maybe 2:00-3:00pm every day, because even the trade winds are the result of the rising sun and the spinning equator.

 

Mary Ann made coconut cream pie, so there had to be coconuts, with coconut milk. God, why do you make me remember this shit? Gilligan's Island is a childhood trauma I want to forget!

 

Mary Ann had nice coconuts!

 

I'm going to watch some videos about Hawaii's water cycle tonight and come back to this thread so hard.

 

Usually you'll find in tropical places it like rains a lot and stuff.

 

I'm only ignoring the second post so that I can post the above image. I saw that episode (second post) at least 10 times. Until I was 12, I was not allowed to leave the house after school, until my parents got home, and we had few channels back then.

 

Islanders are strange, but he is obviously not native.

 

He might not be native, but he's definitely strange...I would never be able to pee with someone holding me over their mouth like that!

 

Tourist always bring out the best in everyone.