It's a miniature paradise of green lawns and flower beds and safari tents and user-friendly tubes!
A short time ago, official footage of opening day at the world’s first full-scale Wavegarden Cove was released by its spin doctors.
You would’ve seen, if you were quick yesterday, a couple of waves shot from the side of the pool, which is in south-west England, and that had been published on LinkedIn without approval etc. It was unremarkable enough to contaminate the opinion of many readers. A lovely little thing, as pleasing as a slice of watermelon on a hot day and a piece of chocolate but certainly nothing that would transport you to great extremes of ecstasy.
Today, it’s better, although the footage released by the company is more an advertisement for the pool’s therapeutic effects (a man in a wheelchair does a 360 on the beach, a little boy without hands rides what one imagines in his first wave) than its performance capabilities.
To examine the wave in detail you’ll watch the cut Wavelength magazine released a few hours ago.
It really will make the hinges of your door squeak.
The surfers include Reubyn Ash, Jayce Robinson, Gearoid McDaid, Vincent Duvignac, Ben and Lucas Skinner, and Kai and Hans Odriozola
In Melbourne, Australia, meanwhile, the southern hemisphere’s first public wave pool readies itself for a late January release.