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		<title>Hydro Oakwood Theme Park</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ride Photographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydro at Oakwood is a ride thats had its fair share of media coverage since opening for the 2002 season. It&#8217;s a ride built by Intamin and is over 100ft tall with a almost vertical drop into a pool of millions of gallons of water, so much so that the first drop can generate a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="flickr-image" title="DSCN2396" rel="flickr-mgr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11285811@N08/3231391474/" target="_blank"><img class="flickr-medium alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" longdesc="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/3231391474_a063a6c3e8_o.jpg" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/3231391474_252c9c3d74.jpg" alt="DSCN2396" width="300" height="225" /></a>Hydro at Oakwood is a ride thats had its fair share of media coverage since opening for the 2002 season. It&#8217;s a ride built by Intamin and is over 100ft tall with a almost vertical drop into a pool of millions of gallons of water, so much so that the first drop can generate a wave nearly 50 ft in height.</p>
<p>Dare you stand on the bridge running over the track when the ride train, they don&#8217;t call it a soak zone for nothing. Hydro gets you that wet Oakwood even went to the length of building a changing room just for Hydro customers to get dried out and a change of clothes.</p>
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<p>Ive not been fortunate enough to ride Hydro as the day we <a title="Oakwood Trip Report." href="http://ridemad.com/oakwood-trip-report">visited</a> was one of the wettest days I have ever had at a theme park and I certainly wasn&#8217;t going to queue up to get even wetter, even my daughter a 12yr old thrill seeker didn&#8217;t want to ride.</p>
<p>I have included these photographs as Oakwood is one of the most un photographed parks in the country, I&#8217;m not doing any PR for them just basically showing readers that haven&#8217;t been to Oakwood what they are missing out on. I have previously wrote a trip report on Oakwood if anyone wants to read it. <a title="Oakwood Trip Report." href="http://ridemad.com/oakwood-trip-report">Oakwood Trip Report.</a></p>
<p>Hydro Photographs.</p>
<p>Splash down.</p>
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<p>The Soak Zone</p>
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<p>Ride station and queue area.</p>
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<p>Changing Rooms</p>
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<p>In this shot you can see the amount of water that get in these boats, look at it pouring out from the rear.</p>
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<p>Crazy drop.</p>
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<p>Hugely powerful water pumps.</p>
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<p>This shot was taken from the soak zone, looking at the drop.</p>
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