Adventure Island (Florida)
| Adventure Island | ||||
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| place | Tampa , Florida | |||
| opening | June 7, 1980 | |||
| surface | about 30 hectares | |||
| Website | www.adventureisland.com | |||
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Coordinates: 28 ° 2 ′ 29 ″ N , 82 ° 24 ′ 48 ″ W.
Adventure Iceland is an approximately 30-hectare water park in Tampa ( Florida ), which opened on 7 June 1980th The park, which is directly across from Busch Gardens , is owned by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment , a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group . It includes ten water slides , a lazy river, a wave pool and two water playgrounds . The main theme of the park is Key West .
Attractions
Body slides
Caribbean corkscrew
Caribbean Corkscrew is a closed double body slide that is approximately 70 meters long. However, the two slide tubes are swirled with each other and circle around each other up to the outlet basin.
Water moccasin
Water Moccasin is a body slide that consists of 3 closed tubes, which are arranged in mirror image to the middle of the slide tower and the collecting basin. The two outer tubes lead slowly downwards in a helix (one to the left, one to the right). However, the middle tube leads directly into the collecting basin from the same height without a helix , which makes it very steep and short.
Vanish Point
Vanish Point is a free-fall slide in which people start upright in a capsule. Then they fall almost vertically through a trap door onto the almost 21 meter high, steep slide.
Runaway Rapids
The Runaway Rapids are a complex of 5 open body slides that lead in curves around an approx. 10 meter high artificial mountain.
Mat slides
Riptide
Riptide is one of the park's most popular attractions. The 17 meter high mat slide, on which you slide head first, has 4 tubes. Similar to Taumata Racer in the sister park Aquatica , after the start, you drive through a helix in closed tubes before they are brought together and open. The rest of the journey consists of a not evenly steep descent that ends in a run-off lane. Especially through the last part of the track there is a kind of competition between the sliders to see who will be the first to finish.
Tire slides
Aruba Tuba & Calypso Coaster
Aruba Tuba & Calypso Coaster are two tire slides in the south of the park. They are driven through with double tires, consist of many curves and end in the same collecting basin.
Wahoo Run
Another tire slide that can even be used by four people is the Wahoo Run . The partly closed slide offers 4 artificial waterfalls as a special feature, through which the guests pass during the ride.
Colossal curl
With the four-person tire slide Colossal Curl, a feeling of weightlessness should be created through constant up and down in high curves.
Solar Vortex
A group tire slide that opened in spring 2020. In the double tailspin water slide, which is unique in America, the tires are occupied by up to four people and can reach speeds of up to 32 km / h.
Flow channels
Rambling bayou
Rambling Bayou is a slow lazy river that is centrally located in the park.
Wave pools
Endless surf
Endless Surf is a wave pool located in the northwest of the park. It occupies a total area of approximately 1600 square meters.
Water playgrounds
Fabian's Fun Port
Fabian's Fun Port is a colorful water playground specially designed for children.
Splash attack
Splash Attack is a water playground designed for older children and adults. The highlight is a 3800 liter wooden bucket that spills over visitors when it is full.
Paradise Lagoon
Relaxed pool combined with a playful obstacle course for children.
Closed attractions
Tampa Typhoon
A water slide that closed in 2005. The slide opened in the late 1980s and shared a tower with Gulf Scream, a now-defunct waterslide. With a height of 21 m, it gave the visitors a view over kilometers.
Gulf Scream
Gulf Scream is a 64 meter long body slide that can reach speeds of up to 40 km / h. Since the slide was only designed for the speed experience, there were no curves. After the start, it first went steeply downhill before sliding through an outlet lane that ends in a collecting basin. There were two skid marks.
Key West Rapids
Key West Rapids was the highest slide in the entire park. The tire slide, which consists of several helixes and curves, also had two intermediate pools that were slowly driven through.
Everglides
Everglides was a special slide that was driven individually in a kind of boat. The slide itself consisted of only two slide channels that led down steeply from a height of about 21 meters into a pool. The real highlight, however, was that you glided in the boat up to 18 meters on the water surface through the pool.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ OrlandoParks.de , Travel Guide, accessed May 19, 2020
- ^ The other Orlando , Travel Guide, accessed October 1, 2012