1.35 minutes is almost like having one in your backyard.
Our newly renovated water park, aka swimming pool et al, will be opening soon. The big attraction this year will be a humonguous water slide. It kinda resembles yellow storm sewer pipe, twisting and turning from about three stories up, ending up in some kind of artifical stream.
Since it’s fully enclosed, recall the reference to sewer pipe, the young ‘uns and adults theoretically won’t be able to climb over the edge or flip themselves out. Once inside, it’s downhill, in the dark, to the light at the end of the tunnel. There is actually two of them, one for small kids and one for bigger kids/adults.
Our esteemed parksguy said he had to make this extra special to attract enough people/patrons to pay for it. hmmm. uh, huh?
Thepool is literally less than 100 yards away.
We don’t have any slides (we’re a small pool and it’s a liability issue). But we’re familiar with them at King’s Dominion. Much like you described. The last time I was on one I did a flip at the end and slammed my knee on the bottom of the pool. It wasn’t a deep wound, but it was ugly. That was pre-Luke.
Jr. worked those slides the summer he worked at King’s Dominion. They had hand signals for things like 1) snake in the water, 2) poop in the water and 3) check out this girl coming down the slide next.