tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post4933264568025726667..comments2023-10-12T23:59:35.045+10:00Comments on The Bruising Adventures of Girl Clumsy: Flume WarGirl Clumsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01056312179921746322noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-65013433544619861832009-03-06T18:37:00.000+10:002009-03-06T18:37:00.000+10:00And of course there was the father thrashing t' yo...And of course there was the father thrashing t' youngsters to within an inch of their lives<BR/>Aaaah Good TimesThe Ancient Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09536314595011559198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-33504146737410188652009-03-06T13:30:00.000+10:002009-03-06T13:30:00.000+10:00What I love about this topic is that despite all t...What I love about this topic is that despite all the pain, and nut-crunching, and limb-snapping etc - everybody remembers massively dangerous waterslide practices with the sentiment: 'Good times'.<BR/><BR/>It was irresponsible, but damnit it taught us about Life. ;)Girl Clumsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01056312179921746322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-12035209101633830382009-03-06T11:31:00.000+10:002009-03-06T11:31:00.000+10:00Originally coming from the UK we only had one have...Originally coming from the UK we only had one haven for water-based slidey fun. The only difference between British waterparks and their Antipodean counterparts is that during your whole slip-sliding day in Ol’ Blighty you are COLD AS BALLS! <BR/><BR/>That was part of the thrill however, and kept you on your toes as you squeeled your way down The Black Hole or through the Viper Terror (best name for a flume imo, the whole slide was in the shape of a winding snake, with a head at the top AND the bottom!) In fact, the only time the water was suspiciously warm was in that vaguely toxic chlorine/urine shallow that was your reward for pelting down the tubular death trap as fast as you possibly could.<BR/><BR/>The run-up-and-throw-yourself-from-the-top-as-fast-as-you-can was a particularly fine art that took years to perfect. People think water parks are all just fun but they also teach you the importance of streamlining, wind resistance and how to reduce it, and most importantly, slip streaming behind someone so that you can catch them and bring about the six-child high blockage half way down the pipe. <BR/><BR/>No doubt in the future we’ll need to sign insurance waivers to declare our specified allocation of fun and that the park will not be liable to pay damages if our increments of fun surpass their allotted levels due to exceeding the 6.25 m/sec speed limit...or maybe I’m just cynical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-11734930482293508752009-03-05T20:40:00.000+10:002009-03-05T20:40:00.000+10:00Wow, waterslides eh? Never really got into them, t...Wow, waterslides eh? Never really got into them, to be honest. Apart from the odd mudslide into the dam at the old family property near Wodonga. Ah, the lovely smell of caked on cow-shit-mixed-with-mud... Dad would only let us do that if we promised to catch yabbies by hand when we landed in the fetid pool at the bottom.<BR/><BR/>I remember seeing waterslides in almost every single coastal town between Melbourne and Townsville during our regular family roadtrips. Remember thinking there was an impressive tangle of them at the local pool at Mackay.Albion Love Denhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09849942490884181051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-15385048885368194232009-03-05T17:14:00.000+10:002009-03-05T17:14:00.000+10:00What Flinty said, except with reference to Litchfi...What Flinty said, except with reference to Litchfield NP in the Territory. Wet granite rockwalls do tend to wear the arse out of your swimming attire however.<BR/><BR/>I too recall Wet and/or Wild in the days when it was Cades County Water Park (sadly I even remember the God awful jingle and the statue of Matilda from the '82 Commie Games.) And how the badly siliconed joins in the speed slides never failed to peel the skin off the back of your heels as they tried valiantly to insert your swimmers somewhere overly intimate. Australias Wonderland knocked up an ill advised water park as part of the early 90s renovations which eventually broke them, it was basically a photocopy of Wet and Wild. Dreamworld have a water park too now I think? But my fave slide growing up, being a NSW north coast kid, was the Ballina Waterslide - it had a massive (or what seemed to be massive to a 10 yr old) drop off to start the run, which generated impressive thrust for the rest of the journey. Second fave was the Coffs Aquajet at Park Beach Plaza which I think is still in business - and yes we pulled all the same waterslide stunts as mentioned above. Good times.Dr Yobbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032085614743539793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-72835401046916995582009-03-04T21:35:00.000+10:002009-03-04T21:35:00.000+10:00Ha.Try sliding down a granite rockface in the grip...Ha.<BR/><BR/>Try sliding down a granite rockface in the grip of a natural waterfall in a Far North Queensland rainforest creek. <BR/><BR/>Never so fast nor far as a commercial waterslide, I'll grant you. But for clean water and privacy and scenery and danger, your waterslides couldn't come close.Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-70817869848977681162009-03-04T20:40:00.000+10:002009-03-04T20:40:00.000+10:00we lived near the woolshed growing up - for 3 year...we lived near the woolshed growing up - for 3 years in a row we went there with school, but not for the slides - for the other thing they did there. Sheep shearing shows. And only sheep shearing shows.<BR/>Amazons had that great toboggan slide and the only prerequisite was you had to be able to carry the toboggan all the way up the stairs. somehow my very very skinny sister got the board up there. She was so light she didn't hit the water on the bottom, she glided about 10 cm above it and hit the pads at the end. there was blood.uamadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584719007745691885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-28641373488483579742009-03-04T19:48:00.000+10:002009-03-04T19:48:00.000+10:00Amazons was torn down and turned into the packed- ...Amazons was torn down and turned into the packed- in-rat-warren, slum-of-the-future "Amazon Place". I have many fond memories of going on the High Slide.. which was basically a hole in the bottom of the 4 metre tower. The thrill of the jump into the pool, the shock of the water... the fear when you realised that you have nutted yourself and can't swim to the surface due to the groin splitting pain... ah... good timesThe Wahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10077801792066094903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-80920306476746055382009-03-04T17:59:00.000+10:002009-03-04T17:59:00.000+10:00Health & Safety = NO Fun at All!!!BTW you and ...Health & Safety = NO Fun at All!!!<BR/><BR/>BTW you and Wah celebrating Chaz Day on the 23rd?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-50757222584420384022009-03-04T15:37:00.000+10:002009-03-04T15:37:00.000+10:00Amazons, magic and I fondly recall them introducin...Amazons, magic and I fondly recall them introducing the movies in the pool on Friday nights.<BR/><BR/>Is Amazons still there? and does it now include a big sign saying 'no not the online bookseller'.Michael barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986102144813296339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-16583038956752985092009-03-04T14:00:00.000+10:002009-03-04T14:00:00.000+10:00Dan you want danger and thrills? Try taking a four...Dan you want danger and thrills? Try taking a four year old who thought he was Superman to Wet'n'Wild before the fun police got involved. I know he didn't see the problem with not being able to swim properly yet, let alone the parks other restrictions, which to his joy weren't enforced.<BR/>Dam it was a good day anyway.Domestic Dazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11367589992134982555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-82240211544870405262009-03-04T13:48:00.000+10:002009-03-04T13:48:00.000+10:00Dan : You had it lucky. When I was a kid our water...Dan : You had it lucky. When I was a kid our waterparks were really rough. My Dad would wake us up at 7:30 in the morning, half an hour before we went to bed. He would lay broken glass and rusty nails on the gravel outside our house and splash it with kerosine. I would hurl myself into the flaming death pile while our father stomped us with army boots whilst he sang Halleljuah. .. You try and tell kids that nowadays and they won't believe you. (apologies to Monty Python)The Wahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10077801792066094903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-57379878378577436762009-03-04T13:40:00.000+10:002009-03-04T13:40:00.000+10:00Going to a waterpark is for pussies. We made our o...Going to a waterpark is for pussies. We made our own. Of course we didn't have a slip 'n' slide but we did have a friend who's Dad had plenty of scraps of linoleum and a bottle of dishwashing detergent. <BR/><BR/>As the grass at the bottom got more and more detergenty the kids started to slip straight across it (instead of slowing down) and then go straight over the front wall and onto the footpath.<BR/><BR/>And what's this about all trampolines being enclosed now. It's not fun unless there's a very real danger of getting a testicle caught in a steel spring.Dan Beestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579585743289114991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-86910854566342736062009-03-04T13:16:00.000+10:002009-03-04T13:16:00.000+10:00Living on the western suburbs all my life means th...Living on the western suburbs all my life means that Amazons was the place for me. Though we hardly went there - in fact, I think I only ever went there once on a non-school trip, and that was with a friend's family.<BR/><BR/>Wet and Wild I've only been to once ( see above, school excursion - seems those were the times to go to the themeparks. The Physics class excursion to Dreamworld was the best - I don't think we actually did any work that day, G Force achieved on the Tower Of Terror ? Thankyou Attendant! ).<BR/><BR/>I've always had a fear of getting trapped inside a waterslide. I seriously doubt it will ever happen, but I reckon I would freakout beyond belief if it did. And then there's the old urban legend of the person sticking razor blades on the underside of the slides...<BR/><BR/>Yep, I was a scared little child.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-3597130542388211622009-03-04T12:57:00.000+10:002009-03-04T12:57:00.000+10:00I've only been to Wet n Wild once... and that's ba...I've only been to Wet n Wild once... and that's back when it was called Cade's County and I was all of 7. <BR/><BR/>I got fished out of the wave pool 5 times with lungs full of water by a strapping life guard, got knocked down the stairs of the toboggan by a big fat man, and got sunburnt to all hell. <BR/><BR/>Happy memories...Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12140246476160508049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795390.post-22445018168086057992009-03-04T12:33:00.000+10:002009-03-04T12:33:00.000+10:00http://www.funfields.com.au/index.php isn't really...http://www.funfields.com.au/index.php isn't really a waterpark. Back in the day it was called the Whittlesea Toboggan Park, 'cause all it had was 1 gigantic Toboggan slide.<BR/><BR/>Talk about leathal, I have seen people fly off the track, flip on their sides and melt their t-shirts. The most dangerous thing was to go 2 adults up, the extra weight turned you into a missile making the run damn near impossible to complete successfully.<BR/><BR/>Ahhh, good times.Nautilushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03709472759179704843noreply@blogger.com