Once again, my friend Brigitte did some research on behalf of this blog. She sent me a link trying to reassure me (and herself) that I was not tasting sweat in the wave pool at the Wilderness Resort. But as I thought about this information, two things stuck out:
1) the water is LESS chlorinated than regular pools.
2) the water is recycled more frequently.
To me, that equals more sweat. (And I'm not even entertaining the thought of other fluids.) And it doesn't help that this article compares wave pools and toilets in terms of engineering.
I also spent/wasted a decent amount of time googling "salty wave pool" and found epinions and blog entries that confirmed that I am not the only person to notice a salty taste in a wave pool. Most writers believed it to be sweat. I also learned that chlorine = chloride = salt, so my brain is attempting to cling to a more scientific, less disgusting reason for the taste.
But maybe I was tasting my sweat. That's not so bad, I guess. Let's just hope whatever small amount of chlorine that was in the wave pool killed any potential swine flu germs.
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This blog, although not afraid to ask the hard questions in life such as "Am I tasting sweat?," will now return to its primary mission of exploring Wisconsin culture.
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