Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by slap on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:57PM
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Just for your information, it wasn't on an unpopulated island but on Exuma, specifically 1 mile north from the resort "Sandals Emerald Bay" .
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Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by mikeyouse on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:46PM
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Yep, they tried really hard to make it sound like it was some far flung place and showed a lot of cleverly oriented pictures to make their case, but this is where the festival was meant to be located:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Exuma,+The+Bahamas/@23.635...
Zoom out a bit to see exactly how 'remote' it really was.
Edit: Meh, mobile GMaps is messing with the link, but their property was on the north side of the island a few hundred yards from a marina.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by slap on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:40PM
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Exactly, they advertised it to be on an island “once owned by Pablo Escobar” implying that it was on Norman's Cay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay) but Norman's Cay is 100 miles away. Just lies...
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by krisoft on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:56PM
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This is the actual beach they would have been on: https://goo.gl/maps/VN5r6NPas512
I found it by comparing the stylized ground maps they released with the satellite imagery.