Hey! This will work great!

It's always nice to find something that could be inaccessible, but has been adapted with consideration for people who have disabilities.
Likewise, I always find it to be a kick when you find something that has been adapted -- not necessarily for PwDs -- but it still works out well.
Our recent trip to the Key Lime Cove Waterpark Resort, discussed in an earlier post, included a surprise find of the second kind.
We are pretty familiar with waterparks. We once lived, for about two years, within 10 minutes of Wisconsin Dells, one of the prime waterpark areas in the country and probably the supreme waterpark location of the upper Midwest. Even after we moved away, we have continued to go back each summer for a weekend trip to one of the big waterparks with my sister-in-law and her family. Consequently, we have seen all kinds of evolution in waterparks and all that goes with them.
But we got a new surprise at Key Lime. At first we dismissed the utility of some of their double tubes, which had a bottom in the seat area of the front tube.
Then it hit us. That might be great for Marcus, our 15-year-old  developmentally and physically disabled son.
Marcus loves the water. But usually at a waterpark, he has to  be content to sit in the wave pool on the shallow end. (When he was younger we would double ride him down the water slides, but he's gotten just too big to get up all of those stairs!). He really loves the water, so he's happy to do it.
In the past we had tried to put him in one of the big innertubes that some parks allow in their wave pools or on their lazy river type rides. But the types without a bottom in the seat don't work out for Marcus. Eventually, he starts to fall through.
But not with these new tubes we saw. The seat bottom held him in the tube and even held some water in there so he was able to get a fully wet feeling. Consequently we could take him out into the wave pool and around the lazy river for the first time -- and for hours. He had a blast. Right now we're in the process of trying to get him one of these tubes so we can use it all the time.
Likely, the adaptation was not made with people like Marcus in mind. More likely, the idea was to provide security for little children. But who cares, it works great for Marcus too.

Photos by Darren Hillock