Reckless Loony

There is another clue that has been overlooked and it is the new mats being used on the current existing 6 lane aqua racer. Hint what type of mats does the Kraken use?

Absolutely correct. Abyss is still being paid off. They had finished paying off Kahuna Falls. There was no earthworks taking place anywhere in the park. There are no plans as yet submitted to Cockburn council. Council approval is required for any type of construction. It takes time for council approval to be granted. There has been talk of getting rid of the burn out castle but that is not supposed to happen for two years. Again more talk and ONLY talk at this time is for a new water slide next to Shotgun going all the way from the top of the hill to the chair lift just like the monorail and toboggan ride used too in the past before they got ripped out.

It was dead in the morning. A little bit of rain in the morning mostly sunny later in the day with only a little cloud reasonably warm it was a rather nice day in the afternoon. Less than 200 through the gate. A lot of free Sunday Times newspapers were still left at the end of the day. Abyss was down to two team members and one car being used. The usual bare number of team members in use policy was in effect namely one team member for two attractions/rides. Various kiosks closed including surf shack. Nah the staff affected are casuals. Can get sacked with an hour notice. Actually season starts off with a lot of casuals on the books and as the season progresses this number diminishes due to natural attrition.

The only ride that does not get maintained or rather just the accessory option is the Australian Water Slides and Leisure built 6 lane aqua racer. The Christmas trees and scoreboard do not get maintained and thus why they are no longer used (stays turned off). These days the race is started by the attractions team member blowing a whistle. The top red light of one of the Christmas trees is broken off and hanging down by its wires no attempt at repairs has been done to this or the scoreboard. Here is a pic of the 6 lane aqua racer back in 2011 showing the faulty scoreboard. The scoreboard should be displaying digits from 1 to 6 to show who came first, second, etc. Instead what you see there are just some segments (or none at times) of the digits illuminated rather than an actual digit. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img845/5567/1yus.jpg No problem with the rides 6 flumes, water pumps or chlorination system, which do get maintained. Adventure World has a permanent full time staff of maintenance (mechanics) personnel, which keep the rides operational. The Rampage was down on Sunday 27th4th. Maintenance working on the hydraulics of one of the two bridges. The ride was back in operation Monday 28th4th. On Sunday 27th it the day was 24C with some cloud around. There were just under 700 (69 something) through the gate. Monday 28th 18C day with some showers just under 200 through the gate with just a small number of these people entering the water while the majority stayed with the dry rides. As for the Freefall it does keep getting repaired but then it soon fails again. In the past a tech from Huss Germany was flown out to work on it. It soon failed again. Basically the ride is a lemon just the same as you can get lemon cars. The recently built Kahuna Falls also has a problem in that the water is always cold. Even on hot 38C days and warm above 25C nights the water remains cold. With the other water attractions the water would be warm.

Sorry people I failed to check the calender. This coming Thursday is 1st of May therefore the park will be closed. Yes the park is open tomorrow Monday 28th April as well as Friday 2nd May. From then on its Fridays and Weekends with the last day being open Monday 2nd June (public holiday). It’s a change from the monotony. Freefall has broken down again. Maintenance is working on it. I no longer remember which day of the week it was but back in March one weekday afternoon some riders got stuck on Freefall when the gondola failed to fully descend. I didn't bother to find out what part failed. The only other incident at the park of note other than the chairlift failure is the woman that got knocked out at the Tunnel of Terror back in December on a Wednesday 4th afternoon. She was placed in the recovery position by the side of the pool close to where the mats and single tubes are returned. Paramedics and Ambulance attended. This resulted in the closure of Tunnel of Terror, Water mountain mat slides and rocky rapids for the rest of the day.

The park will be closed on the 3rd of June up until including 26th of September. So that is a total of 116 days (3 months and 26 days). The park has only a small permanent staff. The vast majority of staff are casuals. This includes ride operators/attractions, cleaners, lifeguards, merchandise attendants, etc. BTW ride operators/attractions staff are also expected to perform other duties including picking up rubbish. Outside peak season and school holidays staff numbers are at bare minimum. Ride operators/attraction staff time share the rides/attractions. The two water slides at water mountain are unattended which results in undersized kids going on the slides which keeps the lifeguard at the pool area at the bottom of the slides really busy. For the people reading this that are going to be coming down to the park during the weekdays after the school holidays remember the park is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays with the ride schedule as follows for Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img836/2227/oxll.jpg During the current school holidays attendance numbers during the week have been about 1,500 to 1,700 through the gate. On weekends the numbers have been getting to about 1,800 to 1,900 during nice weather. As for the smoke effects for the Abyss they are on at random days. Some days on some days off. The smoke when it is on is for the exit side of the building. They haven’t bothered using the smoke effect at the entry to the building since early December.

No point in keeping the park open all year as during winter the park would be empty. Already during the week you get about 400 people pass through the gate even on warm 32 deg sunny days. Compare that during peak season in January where the park gets over 7,000 daily. Obviously the advantage of such low numbers now during the week is there are no queues. Next week is start of school holidays so the park will go back to being open 7 days/week and one expects the numbers passing through the gate to increase to around 1,000 daily. Freefall breaks down several times a season. It is very common to find it not running or running with limited capability such as drops only no shots or as was the case on Sunday late afternoon 6th April after they just got it fixed after yet another break down although operating as shots only no drops. Currently still operating as of 10th April 2014 shots only no drops. BTW freefall just like Abyss also has a smoke machine last time used in 2011.

As Gazza correctly pointed out they are fence posts that have been removed. The fence was behind water mountain running close to the Tunnel of Terror. The posts you see in the pic are located by the Rampage building. The building demolished was indeed the change rooms/Toilets and vintage car museum. http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2386/coasterlocation.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7711/coasterlocation2.jpg No. Translation of the German forum reveals the pictures are nothing more than pics taken by the forum poster when he was there touring the Gerstlauer factory some time ago. The pics have nothing to do with Adventure World.

It actually is the Eurofighter. That is what the construction tender was called. http://www.estimateone.com/adventure-world-eurofighter More. http://imageshack.us/a/img521/4120/adventureworldtender2.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img28/2917/adventureworldtender.jpg

It is a roller coaster. Evidence as supplied by the city of Cockburn building permit BP13/0560. "Roller Coaster Footings and Statrion Building" http://imageshack.us/a/img542/690/adventureworldpermit.jpg

Kahuna falls

Here you go paving bricks being removed. From a different angle showing location of the new slides in relation to the existing swimming pool. Here are some later photos. http://www.adventureworld.net.au/NEW/Watch_Construction_Here/StageOne.aspx The new water slide attraction being constructed is for kids.