"You can climb inside, you can sit, wade and splash about," Mr. Massie said.
As I stood watching my own children splash about, a couple approached me with their five-year-old son.
And even if your dog is the kind who loves to splash about, he may – like a number of young British humans – inadvertently pick up something nasty.
It does not have quite as much money to splash about, but it has many of the same advantages and fewer of the disadvantages.
Patriotic paddlers and future Olympic hopefuls should don one of these Union Jack swimming nappies by Splash About, available from splashabout.com for £12.99.
Except for the waitresses and some local models a team might bring in to splash about, there are not many women in the paddock, and hardly any female reporters.
Two cousins splash about in a swimming pool, show off karate moves -- in slow motion as dreamy violins play -- and romp with three puppies in an idyllic park that could be in, well, Miami.
+94 9127777 237, oceanviewcottage.net, doubles from $25 room only, $31 B&B or $46 half board This is more of a traditional hotel than many of the places on this list; the kind of place where a waiter will bring you a cocktail made with fresh juice while you splash about in the (enormous) swimming pool.
But with a 40% market penetration of mobile phones in the biggest cities, and 20% in urban India overall, that will require an expansion of the market in the countryside, where the penetration rate is only about 2%.Despite much excitement in the West about an "Indian middle class" said to be 300m strong, the "consuming class", with discretionary income to splash about, is much smaller than that.
A shorter jaunt is the 1.7km Circuito do Abraão, which leads from Vila do Abraão to the moss-covered ruins of Ilha Grande's first prison, Lazareto, passing a 19th-century aqueduct next to a picturesque swimming hole where local children splash about on their way home from school.
