Robbo

I guess the few Whoops! on here reflect the newishness of the ride. I took a group to Jamberoo yesterday and we had an awesome day. The big new rides ran non-stop all day. We had many back to back rides on the Funnel Web. They allowed our 6 year old on WITH PARENT alongside and she had a proper PFV as well. She loved/hated it. One ride we had someone popped out of the raft in the exact same spot as the previous photo, no damage done but felt awful at the time. It looks shocking on the video seeing people being washed down the tube without a raft, but everyone pops out at the bottom OK into the end pool and it's just great fun afterwards. Our young guy is now the hero of the group for riding down beside the raft. I wouldn't like to enter the funnel without a raft though, you hit the ripples pretty hard and feel them up your back as the raft squeezes flat under you. Get someone ( or 2 ) heavy on your raft, it makes for a much higher spin through the funnel. Being the backward facing rider on the raft is quite disconcerting first time down. Facing forward is much more fun, more like in a racing car or roller coaster. My boys and I ran all day from ride to ride with few queues. Staff were excellent and ran the rides prefectly; except for a little delay when a few spots of rain closed the bobsled and chairlift for 20 minutes, but we just went to the wet rides and came back later. Highly recommend a trip here in April, but not in school holidays. We lost count of how many rides we had, perhaps 10 on each of the Taipan, Surf Hill and Funel Web as well as going on all the smaller water slides and the old Rock on the way past. We are all shattered today and can hardly walk, when are they adding escalators!!!! A truly, truly awesome and memorable day that you can do to and from Sydney in one huge day. 90 minutes home to Blacktown on the freeway. They seem to have reduced the amount of water being added into the bottom of the funnel. These rafts were getting 4 or 5 rotations across the funnel, yesterday we were getting a mximum of three. Heavy ridders by the looks as well. No such issues all day yesterday, but they shuold have signs 'preparing; you for falling out of the raft.