Fort Myers Beach Pool...

The Ultimate Pool Excitement...Minutes from Sunny Daze!!

IF YOU GO

Fort Myers Beach Pool WHERE: 2600 Oak St. WHEN: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Closed Tuesdays and Thursdays. COST: Adults, $3; children ages 3 to 11, $1; younger than 2, free. INFORMATION: 463-5759

Wipe off those sandy toes and head over to the town's public pool for a dip in 152,000 gallons of fresh water there for the frolicking.

 

The Fort Myers Beach Pool Complex includes two shower buildings; a shallow family-fun pool with a playground structure in the middle; and a six-lane, 25-yard pool for general swimming and laps.  The lap pool also has an 18-foot high, figure-eight slide.

 

The two-story tube slide at the Fort Myers Beach Community pool is a big hit with kids and adults. This is a place where children (and intrepid adults) can careen down slides, climb through tunnels and squirt gallons of water at each other. There, tiny tykes can zip down a 6-foot orange slide into knee-deep water. They can turn knobs, wheels and levers to squirt water at each other. There's a tunnel to crawl through and squirting steps to climb. Since the pool goes from less than a foot to 1 foot, 6 inches, even infants can splash and play, while toddlers, well, toddle around in the water. School-age children are not allowed in the little pool unless they are with a younger sibling. That keeps the area safer for little squirts.

But bigger kids certainly aren't left out of the fun. For those more than 48 inches tall, there's a two-story tube slide that twists and turns and sends youngsters flying out the bottom in a gush of water