Flying Dream Aerial Waterway

This is a way to experience that floating, swooping feeling you get in a flying dream, while wide awake. It consists of a very long tube, similar to a water-chute, that is about six feet in diameter. Unlike a water-chute, the tube is filled with water up to the half-way mark. You lie face down, floating in the water as it moves along the tube. You wear a diving mask and snorkel, so you can breathe and see easily. The top of the tube is matt black, to prevent any light reflecting around inside and spoiling your experience. But the bottom half of the tube is transparent. Very transparent - like polished glass. So transparent you can't even see it, especially since there is no light coming from above to reflect off it. And the water is crystal clear, so you can't see that either. It is also warmed to just that temperature where you can barely feel it.

So, here you are, floating along in your tube, with no discernible means of support. At first you are floating about ten feet above a meadow, dotted with trees and flowers, that slopes down at the same gentle gradient as your tube. You pass through the foliage of several trees, and ahead of you, the meadow seems to come to an end. Suddenly, you soar out over the edge of a cliff, and you are eighty feet in the air, gliding on nothing but a warm current! The tube takes on a steeper gradient, and you accelerate, banking to left and right as the tube carves out a series of swooping turns, passing under the spindly concrete arches that support it. Below you is a tropical forest, with brightly coloured birds-of-paradise flying between the trees, and an animatronic dinosaur grazing at a vast bowl of custard. Your swoops take you closer and closer to the foliage, and then in one long glide you drop through the leaves, and you are flitting between the trunks of the trees. Ahead of you there is another pool. In a last dramatic swoosh, you are dumped into the warm water, and offered a towel by a flunkey dressed as a penguin.

Just like a flying dream, except that instead of waking up, you can now take the elevator back up to the beginning, and for just $30 take another flight.