Christmas Island
Before it was renamed by a developer around 1950, Christmas Island was known as Plummer Island. The island is now a gated community of private homes; a gate at the bridge to the island, across Langley Cove, limits access to property owners and their guests. The name of the Christmas Island Resort, built in 1954, was somewhat misleading, as the resort was located not on the island, but on the mainland, opposite the island. In the spring of 2013, the resort closed permanently, after it was sold to a developer with plans to demolish the 45-room property and build 18 luxury townhouses. Before the wrecking balls and bulldozers could roll, on September 28, 2013, the vacant resort burned to the ground.
This fall view looking south across Langley Cove shows the extent of Paugus Bay visible from the Christmas Island Resort beach.
Winter views of the Christmas Island resort.
Prescott’s Bay View Camps
Across the Weirs Boulevard from the Christmas Island resort, there was a lodging property known as Prescott’s Bay View Camps. Prescott’s Bay View Camps used the waterfront that later belonged to the resort.
This color view of the Langley Cove waterfront of Prescott’s Bay View Camps was taken after the bridge to Christmas Island was built..
A color view of the beach at Prescott’s Bay View Camps, looking across Langley Cove towards Paugus Bay
