The long shots of the island in the end of the opening credits show an island with clearly no mountains or big imposing volcanoes. Yet the island turns out to have quite a few of these. In the Christmas flashback ep Skipper says to Gilligan that the coconut tree is the tallest on the island, it was obvious at this point the writers hadn't yet invented the island to have mountains and imposing volcanoe. How did the castaways fail to notice there was a big volcanoe on the island all that time is a good question indeed.

It's Gilligan's Island. Nothing is supposed to make sense.

This is a little off topic, but your post made me think of this. Remember the episode where they find the silent movie equipment and shoot the film so they can get rescued. One scene shows the shot of the island they always show in the credits. My question is, how did they get this shot anyway? Did Gilligan swim out there with the movie camera and take it???

I had been thinking the exact same thing! And if they can get that far out, surely they can reach other islands within drum-hearing distance. And how do they quickly run from one side of the island to the other when in the distance it streches for miles in that episode?:confused: Gahh! now I'm rambling. This is why I didn't say anything in the first place. DO NOT pay attention to me when I do this as a forewarning!:crazy:

They've gotten far out many times. And how far out did they have to be to film that shot. Mile an a half maybe.

That shot from the distance at the end of episodes looks like it has about 30 trees on it in total. The lagoon area alone seems to have dozens. Whenever they search yhe island for something, they act like it's a big expedition. Also, Wrongway Feldman was supposedly on the island when they arrived, even though the castaways searched the island when they first arrived.

Yes I've come to the traumatic conclusion that Gilligan's Island isn't real at all.

Also, Sol the astronaut saw the island shaped like a blue whale. But Lord Beasley had a map, and the Professor drew, in which the island showed to be shaped very different than the sea mammal.