Rob Fleming Aquatic Park

[MarkBarbieri]

They had the grand opening for a new aquatic park (Rob Fleming Aquatic Park) in our town (The Woodlands) yesterday. Our town is a 30 year old master planned community that is still expanding. There are about a dozen pools/aquatic parks in a variety of configurations. The newest is also the most elaborate with a tall tube slide, a lazy river, a kid's shallow water play center, and a lap pool.

The grand opening yesterday was a fun affair. They had about 10 moonwalk like things, free food, firemen, entertainers, and assorted swag. The kid's loved the pool and the moonwalks.

I took our Canon G9 in it's waterproof housing. The housing is great for in water activities. It's not without problems, however. The biggest problem is water droplets on the lens. When you're in the water, there is no good way to wipe them off. I may try bringing a bit of chamois attached to the strap to see if that helps. The other problem is that the housing traps an incredible amount of heat. I'm not sure how much was from the camera and how much was from the sun, but when I opened the housing the camera was almost too hot to touch.

Here are a few shots from the day:

The Lazy River

The bridge / tunnel connecting the pool to the lazy river

The shallow water play area with a big water dumping bucket

They even brought out air conditioned port-a-potties for the event.

 

[Suburbanmom]

What a fun looking place! I love the capture of the dumping bucket and the poor Chick-Fill-A cow...love those nuggets!

 

[Gdad]

Nice work Mark and a fun time- I looked at the pics before I read your post and was wondering what camera you were using. Looks like it does a great job.

 

[jann1033]

i like the yellow spout one best. never heard of rob fleming but nice he has a nice park named after him
they recently built a cute sprinkler park playland thing in middlefield oh( nothing as grand for sure, remember i live in amishland/cuntry sticks) that i have yet to see one kid playing at. i was thinking of taking granddaughter except wondering since they have horse dookie in their local creeks/water supply how that would work out with a sprinkler park and ecoli...unless they chorinate them like pools?

 

[Groucho]

Looks like a good time. My aunt runs a very similar community water park setup in a suburb of Pittsburg PA, it opened last year and we went down and checked it out. Lots of fun! Unfortunately, we got there literally one day after they had their big "Disney Day" party. Darn!

 

[klmall]

Mark - Does my heart good to see what you did with the G9... Great pictures and I really like the yellow water spout picture!

(from a fellow G9 owner)