Pictures: Daytona Lagoon in Daytona Beach
Two artists paint the new logo for Daytona Lagoon on the base of the wave pool in 2004 when the park reopened after the previous version of the park, Adventure Landing, had closed.
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Originally opened in 1999 as Adventure Landing, the park closed in 2002 and reopened in 2005 as Daytona Lagoon.
This aerial photo shows Daytona Lagoon photographed Thursday May 12, 2005.
(Sara A. Fajardo / Orlando Sentinel)Lauren O’Neil, 8, (front left) slides down a wave reaching for Steve Kinnamon in Adventure Lagoon, a 17,000-square-foot wave pool that generates waves up to 4 feet high during Adventure Landing’s grand opening in 1999.
(EILEEN MARIE SAMELSON / ORLANDO SENTINEL)Gina Chappell, and Barry Jones of South Carolina run for cover in Castaway Cay at Adventure Landing’s grand opening in 1999.
(EILEEN MARIE SAMELSON / ORLANDO SENTINEL)A line of people holding inner tubes wait to ride down Panama Jack’s Slide Away water ride at Daytona Lagoon in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Friday, March 25, 2005. the water rides at Daytona Lagoon re-opened for the first time since the water park closed in the fall of 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)Kathleen Fitzgibbons and her daughter Emma, 7, of Littleton, Colorado, ride inner tubes down Pelicans Drift at Daytona Lagoon in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Friday, March 25, 2005. The water rides at Daytona Lagoon re-opened for the first time since the water park closed in the fall of 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)Kids eagerly await the wall of water that is about to fall on them at Castaway Bay at Daytona Lagoon in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Friday, March 25, 2005. The water rides at Daytona Lagoon re-opened for the first time since the water park closed in the fall of 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)Laura Cushing and her daughter Sara Chushing, 8, of Ormond Beach splash down from Panama Jack’s Slide Away - a 55-foot-high tower featuring three different 400-foot-long tube slides that wind in and around each other, and empty out simultaneaously into a pool at Adventure Landing’s grand opening in 1999.
(EILEEN MARIE SAMELSON / ORLANDO SENTINEL)Martinez Luiz and Isaac Fernandez work from a lift in this 2004 file photo to put a fresh coat of blue paint on one of the water slides at Daytona Lagoon ahead of the park’s 2005 reopening. The park previously known as Adventure Landing closed in fall 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)Artist David Sanner, 33, paints part of the new logo for Daytona Lagoon at the base of the wave pool ahead of the park’s 2005 reopening. The park previously known as Adventure Landing closed in fall 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)The water rides at Daytona Lagoon re-opened in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Friday, March 25, 2005 for the first time since the water park closed in the fall of 2002.
(Barbara V. Perez / Orlando Sentinel)Gabrielle Kirkby, 10, of Gananoque, Canada, has a ride down one of the water slides at Panama Jack’s Slide Away at Daytona Lagoon in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Friday, March 25, 2005. The water rides at Daytona Lagoon re-opened for the first time since the water park closed in the fall of 2002.
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