What is a slip 'n slide? Maybe a water slide. I've never been on a water slide. They came on the scene after my childhood.
The old Guinness World Record for a water slide was 2,021 feet long. How long is a mile? There's 5,280 feet in a mile. So this is half a mile. It is a similar to the distance from my house to Cole's Florist and Garden Centre. That's a lot of water in a tube.
The current record is 1,111 metres or 3,645 feet - in the rainforest in Malaysia. Two people go together and it is somewhere between three minutes and four and a half minutes long, given the various reports. One article says that it is like coasting across twelve football fields. And that article complained it is too long. It is a 70 meter slope. Here's the overhead picture to give you the sense of it. There are pictures of the open parts and it looks like there are places with 6 lanes.
Actually I was wondering about much simpler things - playground slides. I was thinking of Millie, our dog, who goes down the little kid slide in the park. It is cute. I think of these slides as more "normal". But that's not the case. The pictures of playground slides show strange and unusual designs - they are the longest and the tallest, etc. They are also called tube slides.
The longest is located in London at 580 feet long. It doesn't look fun to me. The picture makes it look creepy.
For for all these "thrill rides", there are articles about tragic accidents. Those show up over and over.
But if we turn to the biggest and "best" playgrounds in the world, that's a more interesting story. HERE's the article with pictures. They seem to be amazingly creative designs.
I have to check out the Royal Botanical Gardens soon to see how the water lilies are doing. They dye the water black so with a little extra photoshop work, one has quite an interesting image.
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