March 6, 1965
First Mate's log:
Well, it looks like we're not going to be rescued, again. Duke made it back to Hawaii, after a week, but he hit his head on a rock and lost his memory. Maybe he'll be cured, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
March 7, 1965
Carol Martin's diary:
Not only did Duke Williams get amnesia after returning to Honolulu, but Mr. Howell accused all of us of stealing Mrs. Howell's diamond brooch! He later had Gilligan relay his apologies, and an offer of a $10,000 reward to whoever finds the brooch. Imagine what I could do with that money once we get back home! I could buy the girls anything they want, and send them to college someday. Marcia and Jan are going to help me look, while Alice looks after Cindy.
March 7, 1965
I saw a big gorilla outside our window last night, but the Skipper didn't believe me. Then I saw the gorilla again in the jungle, while we were looking for a brooch Mrs. Howell lost. I like animals, but that gorilla is scary. I don't really want to be going all over the island right now, even if Mr. Howell is offering a big reward.
March 8, 1965
A gorilla kidnapped Mrs. Howell yesterday! It took her to a cave and no one could lure it out to rescue Mrs. Howell. Then the Professor said that the gorilla was attracted to Mrs. Howell's perfume. Gilligan went to get some to bait a trap, but he accidentally spilled it all over himself, so the gorilla kidnapped him! Gilligan escaped when the gorilla met a female gorilla. You can imagine how difficult it was to explain all this to Marcia and Jan.
March 13, 1965
I tried to save Mary Ann from drowning in the lagoon today, but the Skipper had to save us both. I got real down in the dumps, so Mrs. Howell sickle-annual-ized me. Then later, I tried to rescue the Skipper from a fallen log, but I dropped it and it pinned down both of us. The Professor had to rescue both of us.
Then I saw a headhunter! But nobody believed me, just like they didn't believe me about the gorilla at first.
March 14, 1965
Oh, poor Gilligan! Mrs. Howell told me he's a delusional depressive. Apparently, he tried to rescue some people yesterday and it didn't work out. As for the delusions, he thinks he saw a headhunter, although no one else has seen any sign of such a person. I certainly hope it's a delusion!
The Skipper told me he's going to dress up as a headhunter and pretend to take prisoners, so that Gilligan can rescue them and get his confidence back. He decided not to take me, Mike, or Alice, since it would be upsetting for the children. As it is, I'm going to have to tell my girls that it's just a game and they're not supposed to say anything to Gilligan about it.
March 14, 1965
The Skipper tried to play a trick on me, pretending to be a headhunter so I would rescue some of the castaways. But I overheard him. Then the real headhunter kidnapped some of them, and I thought it was the Skipper, so I wasn't scared. Then the Skipper showed up and I realized who the real headhunter was. I ran around and accidentally pushed the headhunter into a fire, which made him run to the lagoon and then swim away. So everyone says I'm a hero now, but it was just luck.
March 20, 1965
We've had so many visitors recently, including, as it turned out, a real headhunter that Gilligan scared away, but the last thing I expected was the return of Wrongway Feldman. We thought at first he'd arrived here accidentally, but then he explained that he was fleeing civilization. He doesn't understand why we want to go back.
Mr. Howell tried bribing him, but he sees money as part of the problem with civilization. He said, "You have everything here you could want, without paying for it." Well, yes, we have the basics, but there's so much we're missing out on.
The Skipper faked an illness, so Wrongway would go get a doctor in his plane, but Mr. Feldman offered to remove the Skipper's appendix! I don't know what would motivate Wrongway, but the Skipper hasn't given up hope and I'm sure he'll come up with another scheme.
March 21, 1965
Wrongway Feldman came back! But he doesn't understand why we want to be rescued. We tried different things and then finally the Skipper had me pretend to have bola-bola fever. And this morning Wrongway left a note saying he'd flown back to the mainland to get help. Maybe this time we can be rescued, if he doesn't get lost again.
March 21, 1965
Well, Gilligan pretended to have bola-bola fever, but all that happened was Wrongway flew back to the mainland to get serum, without telling anyone why. The next plan, which Mike came up with, is to make it seem like we're tired of what Mr. Feldman calls our "unspoiled island paradise," and we're going to develop it. Mike is drawing up some plans of things for the men to build to drive Wrongway crazy and want to escape our island, this time telling the authorities where we are. I hope it works!
March 22, 1965
Mr. Brady is having us build a little city on the island, so that Wrongway will want to leave. We're also giving Wrongway a lot of work to do. I just hope we don't wear him out so much he can't fly. Oh, and we're trying to be as noisy as possible, too, even when we eat and sleep.
March 29, 1965
Well, Mike's plan worked, sort of. Wrongway did leave, after the Skipper loaded his plane with maps of the island. But today we got a bottle message saying that Wrongway has landed on another tropical island, one with peaceful natives. And now the men are taking down the "city" so that they can reuse the wood for other projects, hopefully more successful ones.