Excessive??
What do you think is inside this building?
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach1.jpg)
It's an "Ocean-dome"
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach2.jpg)
Imagine a beach where the sky is always blue, it's never too hot or cold, the water isn't filled with salt and pollution, and the surf is always perfect - welcome to Ocean Dome, the world's only indoor beach.
Ocean Dome has its own flame-spitting volcano, crushed white marble "sand", and it also boasts the world's largest retractable roof, providing a permanently blue sky. Temperature, wind and humidity are closely controlled to provide an ultra-safe "sea-side" experience. Every hour, the volcano erupts and the hi-tech wave machines start up, starting a few minutes of sanitized surfing. Entrance cost is US $50 per person, which seems especially expensive given that there is a free, natural beach only 300 meters away.
The roof is retractable . .
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach3.jpg)
so the SURF'S UP . . .rain or shine!
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach4.jpg)
When the roof is closed, you still get blue sky and puffy white clouds .
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach5.jpg)
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach6.jpg)
(http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images2/japanbeach7.jpg)
nice.
but i would never trade it for the real thing.
i'm gonna take advantage of the natural resources we have left befoe the evil
atv'ers destroy it all. ;)
Lol, I'm with ya there. Would definately take the beach any day over that... although it is pretty freakin cool (but for a desert or something), lol
i seen on the travel channel they also have an indoor ski/snowboarding mountain
Ya, the indoor ski slope place in a mall in Dubai.
Fort Lauderdale beach needs one of those for when it rains. :)
i wonder what the ridin would be like in them woods around that place!!!lol
Discovery had a special on that one day, that place is real cool....
The real thing is far better.
It is really neat though!