By Laura Michell
Whittlesea’s Funfields was the place to be last week for families looking to stay cool as the mercury raced towards 40 degrees.
Funfields owner John Verga said the Plenty Road water park had been “flat out”, with families flocking to its pools and water slides on Monday and Tuesday.
He hoped the park’s new wave pool – believed to be the first outdoor wave pool in Victoria –was driving the interest from visitors.
“It’s been a really good summer,” he said.
Mr Verga said the wave pool was added to the park in response to a patron survey.
“By and large, people were asking for a body of water they could chill out in,” he said.
The wave pool was given the green light by Whittlesea council last July on the condition that Funfields build sound walls along the northern side of the pool and along the northern site boundary, along with a 2.4 metre sound wall along the park boundary which will be tapered at the eastern and western ends.
