Negative-G 2012 Road Trip Day One: Cedar Point Page Thirteen

Cedar Point
Sandusky, Ohio
Negative-G 2012 Road Trip
May 24, 2012
Page Thirteen

Shoot the Rapids at Cedar Point Amusement Park, Sandusky Ohio

Shoot The Rapids' two lifts do a couple of things. First off you need to go up in order to go down and splash in the lagoon but they also take the boats back and forth across the lagoon to the island where the back half of the ride is situated.

Shoot the Rapids at Cedar Point Amusement Park, Sandusky Ohio

The first and larger of the two drops was a letdown because we hardly got wet at the bottom of it. After the soak-free splashdown over on the island Shoot The Rapids got boring because there was nothing over there, you just float around for a couple of minutes before heading up the second lift and down into the rapids.

As you can see Bond's in the back of the boat getting ready to get wet.

Shoot the Rapids at Cedar Point Amusement Park, Sandusky Ohio

As you can see most of the splash from the splashdown is directed away from the boat keeping it's occupants nice and dry. What gets you wet on Shoot The Rapids are the sprayers at the bottom of the second drop and...

Shoot the Rapids at Cedar Point Amusement Park, Sandusky Ohio

...water jets that your friends can use to soak you. I always have a few quarters on any of our trips or -G get-togethers just in case any of our group wants to take a log flume or rapids ride I mean it would be wrong not to soak my son or friends if they really want to get wet.