Six Flags Over Georgia...Well, mostly just Hurricane Harbor

Uh.... that time I went to Six Flags Over Georgia and the only coaster I rode was Ninja?
Super busy random week day... that ended up being some stupid "bring a friend free" day for pass holders... The park was pretty slammed due to that so lines were massive all around and many things were skipped just out of lack of wanting to wait (also, the fact I've already visited the park twice this year and a good 20 other times over the past decade or so...) Over our day the only rides Deka and I even rode were Acrophobia, The Joker, Sky Screamer, and Ninja. Yeah..... thrilling.

The only 'new' ride for me was the recently opened Larson built park model Ring of Fire. Six Flags had built four of them at their parks for 2015 additions... this was my third time coming upon one this summer.. and also the first I attempted to ride.

(The one at Cliff's was broken and the one at Elitch was down and once opened had a massive queue, also, later this summer I ended up at Great Adventure and found their Ring of Fire... broken.)
I was also extremely amused that two of the four parks to receive the Ring's had in just the past 10 years or so removed their massive Intamin built Looping Starships, a ride with 3 times the capacity and same general ride motion and experience.... And that a third park to get one.... still has an extremely similar ride.... that's also inverted!
So uh, yeah....

Uh... The Joker Chaos Coaster
(not a coaster)

Six Flags opened four of these in parks across the country this summer.. and tried to pass them off as Roller Coasters.....
(not a coaster)

Although anyone who has been to a State Fair or County Fair would likely have seen one in passing... The parks got a pretty good share of backlash over the overstatement but its not like they even care, people will come regardless and odds are, will wait in ungodly lines for these things.
(not a coaster)

We ended up waiting a good 45 minutes for a ride that at a fair would only have 4 or 5 riders on it... Also the fact the park has Flashpass as an option for the ride that only holds 24 people a cycle meant maybe 18 people in the queue were loaded each time, with dispatches reaching EIGHT minutes.
(Completely unacceptable) 
(not a coaster)

Luckily, we ended up getting one of the ends, not having to squish into a middle car and look into the faces of complete strangers.....
(not a coaster)

Woo, and around we go... after 4 or 5 trips around with a quick inverted stop, the ride ends...
(not a coaster)

And people disembark realizing the time they've wasted for a sub-par carnival ride
(not a coaster)

The ride is also somewhat awkwardly placed in front of the old Batman Stunt Show Arena.
(not a coaster)

And one last time as I roll my eyes....It's not a coaster...
(not a coaster)
Also new this year in the parks Gotham City section....

Harley Quinn Spinsanity

A classic Tilt-A-Whirl flat ride.

It looked rather nice... but had a surprisingly long wait for it. So it was skipped in favor of riding Sky Screamer.
I was also kinda amused how Six Flags installed a ride at Over Georgia that as a company had been ripping them out of its other parks because the CEO felt they were cheap.
(Magic Mountain, America....)
So after some general annoyances (we were having a Six Flags day) we made our way to the far back of the park to go for a swim... and stuff.

Ah.... the reason we came to Six Flags today, Hurricane Harbor.

Whats this? Theming?.... at Six Flags?!
Who knew...

This amused me
(although I've seen a Florida version that used a coconut)

<3 yeesss!
Why didn't they sell this on a shirt or something!

Paradise Island opened almost 10 years before the rest of Hurricane Harbor did, in 2014.
It was named Skull Island when opened in 2005.

Slides... and stuff.

Bonzai Pipelines is home to 3 of the parks 4 major slides.

It features 2 standard tubing slides and a ProSlide CannonBOWL 30 model. But we were being lazy and didn't wanna wait in lines for any of the slides.

'I'm having fun!'

The 38,000 square foot Calypso Bay Wave Pool

Every hour or so they would clear the wave pool and have the lifeguards do some sort of...check.
Uh

And lastly, the parks standout attraction, Tsunami Surge.

The slide starts off with a large bowl, taken rather slow due to the lack of any real drop before entering it....

After one trip around the bowl, you drop down into Tornado Wave feature.

And... the Tornado Wave itself, this was my second time encountering one.
(Having ridden the first to open in the US back in 2012, ha)

Annddd... one last over view of the entire Tsunami Surge slide.

So yeah... Overall, Hurricane Harbor is a nice little water park. I was pretty shocked Six Flags didn't expand it this summer and opted to add a flat ride (not a coaster). If they just added a lazy river and a second slide tower with 2 or 3 more slides the place would be a worthwhile stop during a visit to the park... But for now I guess I'll stick with Goliath, Mind Bender, and Acrophobia and I'll head over to White Water for my slide action.

woo

Woo, Six Flags White Water!

Well, uh, with an extra day to waste in Atlanta before making the quick drive back to Orlando... Deka and I visited Six Flags White Water in Marietta, GA. I hadn't visited the park since 2004 (uh, 11 years?...How did that happen!?) Honestly, the park really hasn't changed much in the past decade. They had added a Behemoth Bowl and modified their speed slide to include a drop box start. That's all that really stood out to me but that's ok, White Water is still a really great water park and one of the more pretty ones as far as water parks go. The place opened in the mid 80's and was built by Herschend, the Dollywood and Silver Dollar City parent company and the older areas in the park really show it. The park was pretty busy, I guess most of Metro Atlanta was getting in one last beach day before the local schools went back in session. While it kinda made things less fun for us, we made the best of it. (and just skipped most of the things we'd been on before) and since we didn't really care if we rode everything, we just kinda relaxed and did a few laps in the lazy river and also hung around the wave pool.

Woo, Six Flags White Water!

Map of the park, its pretty big as far as water parks go.

The Atlanta Ocean Wave Pool, featuring a live DJ Dance Party during the day and Dive-In Movies on some nights.
(Let it be known, this was the first place both of us had ever heard.....
Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae))

The parks Lazy River, the Little Hooch River.

It has this little spur that features a waterfall cove, I seemed to remember it being a little more cave like the first time.. but it may have been changed since 04.

There was clearly modifications visible to the river elsewhere in the park.
Little Hooch used to have a 'longer' path option that has now been walled off and drained although visible by the Tree House. 

Tree House Island, the newer/larger splash fort at White Water.

The ProSlide Tornado, this was the newest slide in the park the first time we visited together.
We had ridden it 2 or 3 times that visit...

But yeah... With that being the line, just to get a tube... we skipped it! No way were we gonna wait over an hour for it... NOPE!

New for this year, the park modified Cliffhanger, their old speed slide into Dive Bomber with the addition of a Drop Box start.

The line was also pretty massive and since I have 4 local slides with drop starts... and I had ridden the original Cliffhanger... we passed on it.

Run-A-Way River is the parks second, and newer family raft slide... but again, we had ridden it in the past and didn't really care to wait in line for it.

Captain Kid’s Cove, the smallest of the three splash fort / kid areas in the park.

Woo, 100-Meter Splash!
(Love me some mat-racers)
Also, at some point in the past 10 years it got painted blue (from white)

The Bahama Bob Slide is the parks other family raft slide.

And since I remembered it being the better of the two, we waited out the nearly hour line for a ride on it.
I'd like to say it was worth it but its hard for me to do so. Waiting in extra long lines for slides is just so unrewarding to me. That being said, the slide itself is one of the better family raft ones out there.

Caribbean Plunge, the double dip slide in the middle here, was my favorite slide here back in 04. I remember running around with Deka and doing it upwards of 10 times my last visit. Now it seems you can no longer ride it with double tubes, but we still did it solo, I haaddd to ride it backwards <3

But we did ride the Bermuda Triangle slide next to it on a double tube. I would have gone a second time had the line been slightly shorter but it was one of the more manageable today.

Being an older park, a lot of the older slides are buried semi deep into the woods. Its kinda neat being in the forest going down the slides, its not something you really see at water parks now.

Deka was nervous about trying out Gulf Coast Screamer tube slide due to the drop off at the end and fears of flipping over... I told her she wouldn't flip as long as she didn't try to overcompensate for the drop... and she remained upright.

Walking around one of the activity pools it seemed like there was once a pretty large drop off slide no longer in use, maybe 20 feet to the right was a less severe drop off slide named Mutiny Chute. Deka wanted nothing to do with it but I quickly made the drop.

The last thing we did before making our exit was the parks second newest slide, Typhoon Twister, added in 2013. This was only my second time riding the ProSlide Behemoth Bowl and Deka's first. We ended up waiting about an hour for it.... and while fun, again, it kinda leaves a bad taste in your mouth. (For what its worth, the larger one at Blue Bayou was much better)

So many trees <3
An almost rarity when it comes to water parks.

The little shopping and dining village in the back of the park is where a lot of the Herschend influences show

But way to go, Six Flags, for being able to not screw it all up... even after 16 years of ownership.

After heading out of the park we drove down past the Big Chicken ( :D <3 ) and grabbed some lunch/dindin at Del Taco before I headed back to Orlando, just over a six hour drive, although I hit thunder storms and traffic making it take nearly seven.

Woo, White Water! Hopefully I can make it back here sometime sooner than 11 years... and on a less busy day (or maybe I'll just give in and buy a Q-Bot.....)

BIG CHICKEN PHOTO VIA TWITTER!