Water Wonderland opened for business at the Irish Club (Tony White) Oval on Friday and will operate onsite until November 29.

The park’s equipment, pools and slides filled 11 trucks for the trip to Mount Isa and required nearly a week to assemble, but Water Wonderland events manager Jamie Brown is confident the hard work will pay off.

“We’ve had a lot of positive responses through our website and Facebook page,” Mr Brown said. 

“The (Irish) club has been a great help as well.

“We’ve had a lot of people stop and come in and have a look. 

“Until you see it, people don’t realise the size of the park. When we say it’s the world’s largest travelling water park, we mean it’s the world’s largest travelling water park.”

Mr Brown said Mount Isa was the most remote location Water Wonderland had visited. 

“They (Mount Isa residents) don’t get these type of things out there,” he said. “That’s why we came.

“This is our first real rural area we’ve been to, so it’s a bit of an experiment.

“But I’m pretty confident it’ll be all right. If it’s a good response, we’ll be back again next year.”

Mr Brown said the park would use the same amount of water as an Olympic swimming pool during the visit.

“It reticulates through itself,” he said.

“We pay normal commercial rates (for water). 

“It is (expensive), but it’s what we have to do.”

Water Wonderland has also visited Townsville, Cairns and Mackay the past few months, but Mr Brown said every stopover was different. 

“We’ve got to set it out differently at each location to make sure all the stuff fits in,” he said.

“We always go to the location and check the site out first, but until we get there with the equipment, it’s a bit hard to place everything.

“Normally the day we get here we do a map and work out where we’re going to put everything and that might change three or four times before we start putting everything in.”