Dive into O.C.’s best public pools

Aliso Viejo Aquatic Center (courtesy photo)Kai Letcher, 5, runs through a cross fire of water spray in Buccaneer Cove at Boomers. The water wonderland Buccaneer Cove features five colorful water slides, wet water tunnels, interactive aqua domes, fun spray cannons, spray loops, cylinder spray fountains, and a huge splash bucket located at the top of the structure. (file photo by Ed Crisostomo, Orange County Register/SCNG)Visitors swim the 25 yard pool at Crown Valley Community Park in Laguna Nigu