My eleven-year-old grandson saw this and laughed before I did. The sign prohibited diving at a six-inch deep splash pad! Yeah, we both laughed out loud.
We’ve brought young grandchildren to this splash ground area many times. In the heat of the summer, it’s a great place to let the kids run through spouts of water and stand under buckets about to dump water all over them.
Babies crawl through the spray, toddlers toddle through the water spouts, and pre-K kids run chase each other around sea creatures. But I never saw anyone attempting a dive, much less a jump into a few inches of water.
However, the zoo would not invest in such a sign had not some young person attempted to dive into the water. Had some parent absorbed in their phone let their one-year-old attempt a swan dive off the sea turtle? Were two-year-olds lining up to do flips off the octopus?
Having read the whole sign, I can’t help but wonder what is worse: diving, diarrhea, or animals in the splash grounds.
