OK, so sorry that was just an image. I decided to do it the cool way and try to post from my son's iPod while grilling dinner. Which meant I had to buy a ftp app to upload images to my server. And then the buttons were so tiny that I hit submit on accident without any text. Gonna have to get me my own fancy iPod someday, mine is nowhere near this cool.
We usually have a pad under the feet inside the pool, but haven't inserted it yet this year.
We do allow jumping, and while I understand the risks of entrapment (ex safety professional here) they're big kids and slipping hasn't occurred yet (going on 5y of increasing size blue pools w/same ladders). Only one kid can fit under the ladder without swimming to the floor anyway. The little one (avatar vacuum girl) is getting bigger every day, at 8 now she's quite the little fish.
Y'all have to understand one important thing... the pool is so freakin cold that you HAVE to jump in if you're going to get all the way in. No halvesies about it... no meekly lowering yourself into the pool... must jump and go under if you're going in or you'll never actually get in the pool. And then of course you can't stand up, must submerge to the shoulders so the pool can start feeling "warm" (this is actually hypothermia training, we're planning a jean and tennis shoe hike to the top of Mt. Everest soon and they should be prepared).
Apologies for the dirty foot bath pool, I haven't vacuumed it for about a week. Haven't changed the water in there since filling, the trichlor keeps it sanitized but dirt does fall in. The weather has not been cooperating for day in day out swimming lately and I have LOTS of vegetation surrounding the pool plus some lovely dead sod (mud). Our yard is barely big enough to hold the pool in the first place, we're maxed out at 15' round.
Here's a few more images, just for kicks. The bungies work very well to keep the ladder in place by pulling against the walls of the kiddie pool, it can't move towards the pool, nor side to side. Don't mind the ugly neighbors house... the latice is supposed to help block our view of it <cringe>.
new tilt this year
the lower bungee wrap
top bungee wrap
double pavers as a "pad" since the grass died anyway...