Water Slide Fun!

Hartenbos is a favorite holiday destination for many people & families - especially over the December holidays. My family has gone there for years -- the best thing to do was always the supertube ride....piles of elastics round our arms marking how many turns we had left to slide down with the swirling water.

They have built a huge fun park which has replaced the old supertube which was right near the beach... Here we have the most fabulous selection of water slides:

1: a very shallow slope
2: a wavy slope (little steeper)
3: a steppy slope (little steeper again)
4: a pretty steep scary slope (so steep!)
5: a vertical drop (just downright terrifying!!)

Here's a closer look at the vertical one.

(don't you just love my poser in the foreground?!)

Underwater Fun!

I bought a cheapy disposable waterproof film camera for when Geoff and I went snorkeling in Gili Meno, but the photos just didn't come out as well as I had hoped. Firstly, we only had 24 exposures, and secondly, half of them simply didn't come out...and lastly: the ones that did come out ok needed some serious editing to make them look like something eg:

So, shortly after we got back, I invested in an underwater housing for my G10. It is almost full function (I can switch modes / zoom etc etc). This is what it looks like:

Because its been so chilly, I've not had a chance to test it out.....But we started swimming in our pool a couple of weeks ago, so we had some perfect opportunities to see what it can do in the pool! We took it underwater & these are some of the results: