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One other warning: Bring plenty of money to eat lunch or dinner. Most of those were gone Monday before the general public was allowed in, however, because platinum pass customers are allowed to enter the park 30 minutes early. The only nursing room was far away in the main park.ДЄlso, lounge chairs are at a premium in Boomerang Bay. However, park officials need to seriously think about adding an area for nursing moms and their babies in Boomerang Bay. There is also an ample amount of shade provided from harmful sun rays under huge umbrellas and trees inside the park and near the water attractions. There are plenty of rest room facilities, including a family rest room, and plenty of changing tables in between these two pools, so you don't have to walk far with your tikes. He also liked the slide and other water manipulates at Wallaby Wharf. Our son couldn't stop running through the water spout streams rising from the walkway into the pool at Kangaroo Lagoon. Since the Kangaroo Lagoon and Wallaby Wharf areas are designed for infants and toddlers, the shallow swimming areas include many water features that will delight the tikes. The crowds lined up all day waiting for the huge bucket to dump water all over them. Other attractions are the Great Barrier Reef, a 25,000-square-foot wave pool, and Jackaroo Landing, a three-story water jungle gym complete with child-controlled water sprayers, water wheels and a huge 1,000-gallon drenching bucket that dumps water every few minutes. Carowinds straddles the two states' border. The 1,000-foot-long lazy river takes guests along a path that travels in and out of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Sydney Sidewinder speeds guests through a winding 370-foot chute, while the Awesome Aussie Twister is an enclosed experience that plunges riders into total darkness as they speed through giant tubes.Д¬rocodile Run has a slower pace and can be enjoyed on a single person raft or a two-seater. Sydney Sidewinder and Awesome Aussie Twister are also super-fast water attractions for the thrill-seekers. For example, Pipeline Peak is an 80-foot high spiraling ride you take with nothing between you and the ride but skin. 'And that's what they are doing.'ДЇor the older children, or the young at heart, there are plenty of thrilling water rides with much faster speeds. 'I love them, and I want them to have fun,' he said. He has come to Carowinds and its sister water park his whole life, but this was his first trip with his children.

Trey Tolbert of Dallas, N.C., braved the crowded conditions and long lines on the Memorial Day holiday to bring his three children, ages 2, 4 and 5, to the water park. 'This is something you can do with mom and dad and your grandparents,' he said. Making the two new water attractions for Boomerang Bay's smallest customers was a natural step, he added, in the park's appeal as a family-oriented park.

Australia was a natural choice, he said, because Americans associate the island continent with water. Scott Anderson, public relations manager for Paramount's Carowinds, said re-theming Paramount's amusement park attractions has been successful at other properties in Virginia and Cincinnati, so they decided it was time to try it here.

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But when it was our turn, the smile on our son's face as he glided like a free bird down the slide was worth the wait. That seemed a bit high considering our long wait in line. Literature provided states they can accommodate about 300 riders per hour. Riders grab a blue raft from someone whose ride has just ended to take a whirl on one of the two 125-foot-long slides. If you are shorter than 36 inches, you have to be accompanied by an adult on the ride. If you are taller than 54 inches, you have to be with a child to ride the slides. The attraction is a water-tubing adventure designed for young children at least 54 inches tall. Platypus Plunge is a great addition to the other young children's swimming holes called Wallaby Wharf and Kangaroo Lagoon. It was nice to have an area our 37-inch-tall son could splash around freely without worrying about deep water. Two rain-drop mushroom fountains and geyser bubblers were a big draw for the shortest patrons. The large pool is set up for a zero to 3-foot deep swimming experience. Once Kookaburra Bay was reached, it was a great find.

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