Woo, Wild Adventures!

Woo, back in May when Mark was down here... We went up to Wild Adventures for the day. Yaayyy!

Mark had never been to the park before and Jeff and I hadn't been yet this year.. So we made the uneventful 3 hour or so drive to Valdosta, woo.

(annddd I think we stopped at Waffle House on the way!)

Sweet, the third best park in Georgia, Wild Adventures!

Mark, having never been needed all the credits and we had originally planned on spending time at the water park but due to it being colder than we hoped.. we skipped the slides.

 Right inside the park is their Roller Skater, Ant Farm Express... After being line jumped by awful little kids without shoes on (who were then turned away...) we got our ride and moved on...

 And quickly ticked off Go Bananas or Bug Out... or whatever the park is calling their Wild Mouse today as well.

 After that we walked right onto the parks Boomerang... named.. uh.. Boomerang.

This is still by far the smoothest Boomerang around, sadly the same cant be said for their SLC....

It may have been too chilly for the water park but we did take a ride on the raft ride, Tasmanian River Rapids 

(its waterfalls were off)

 I also went for a ride on the parks Chance Aviator.

Even with its OTSRs and being way shorter than the Star Flyers popping up everywhere now, I still like the ride (I think I made Jeff ride it 5 times when we came here for Halloween in 2011)

 Umm.. we rode the parks Chance train too, one of the few places in the park you can still see animals.

 Yup, animals.

 Making our way around the back side of the park.. We walked up and onto Cheetah. yaayyy

CCI Goodness and the best of the three coasters I've ridden named Cheetah.

 Even with its G-Trains.. its still a fun ride and worth a few rerides :)

 Not worth a reride is Twisted Typhoon / Hangman

I don't know what happened here but this SLC used to be *the* best SLC... Now its just kinda.. average. 

 But it looks nice with its new paint job and colors.

 We walked over to ride Viking Voyage.... 

But found this sign.

And also this....Oh well, I've got the credit (in two states)

 YUP

 I.... had to ride the Sky Coaster.... But to be fair, I hadn't been on this one yet.

 

 Tail Spin is the parks new for 2013 Zamp Disk'o.

I just don't find them fun (ZzZzz) I rode it.

But I was extremely amused that a park that already has a Moser Sidewinder... got a Disk'o.

I guess you need two rides that rock/swing back and forth while spinning riders who face outward, in the same park.. pretty much next to each other. 

 Yeah............

 Also, what the hell happened to the parks double shot?!

 Now renamed Firecracker and no longer shooting riders to the top twice. Jeff and Mark sat it out after seeing it cycle.. I had to try it myself so I could fully complain about how awful its being run now :P

Oh hey Mr. Random Snake, on the midway not part of any exhibit.

Oh, and the Yo-Yo was ridden too... yup

I also rode Blackfoot Falls, alone. It was a bit too chilly for me to want to ride it.. but having been here now like five times and having never seen it run... I couldn't pass it up. :\

Random photo of Swamp Thing... None of us rode it today.. but umm.. 

It has little CrocaGators that live under it!

(yes, I know the difference.....)

Wild Adventures used to be pretty half and half when it came to rides vs. animals.. But it seems over the years (and with its newest owners) more and more of the animal aspect is being removed... that being said, they still had some animals out on the Savannah (seen only by the train really) as well as the nature walk trail on the left side of the park, and a petting zoo now found where some kiddie rides used to be.

I made nice with this little cow.

I wanted to make nice with this duck... but she was giving me evil-eye... so I let her be.

Uugghhhhh..... Jeff and Mark wanted to feed the birds... I wanted nothing to do with them.

BUT I DID WANNA SEE THE BEARS!!!

And was devastated when they weren't out

:'(

Who would think this photo is from inside an amusement park with seven coasters and a bunch of flats?

I don't know how I feel about Wild Adventures... On one hand you can see the park is trying to clean up and is adding trees (much needed!) on the main midways... but there is still an extreme lack of food options and the bathroom situation is pretty horrific (although a work in progress) The park still has way to many battle scars from rides past and the layout could use some work. The new owners also seemed to have dropped any sort of theme to the areas within the park and are renaming/theming things without consistency. It's just kinda... unfortunate that a park being run by the same people who are running DOLLYWOOD and SILVER DOLLAR CITY just are not putting enough effort into bringing Wild Adventures up to those standards. (But I know it'll never be that way... Its just not the same kind of market... nor park... but still, work needs to be done here!) Yup, that being said... I'll still try and make my yearly visit to the closest out-of-state park I have and I'll still have a fun time doing it.