After all of this rain, are you looking for an opportunity to display your webbed feet?

Would you like to get wet from water that doesn’t fall from the sky onto your head?

Here’s your chance. This Sunday, June 25, the Astoria Aquatic Center is presenting the first ever Clatsop Splash.

The day full of activities promises to be fun for all ages and skill levels. You can come to watch, or you can come to swim. If you want to participate, the day has been divided into three kinds of events.

The first component, the Lifeguard Olympics, involves skill competitions between several teams of four or five lifeguards from Astoria, Seaside and outside the area. Participants in this component will need valid lifeguard certifications. The teams will compete in three events: a passive victim rescue race, where each member will swim 25 yards to rescue a “victim” and then return with the victim; a tandem rescue swim, where two lifeguards swap places carrying both a buoy and a victim; and a brick swim, where the competitors must retrieve a brick from the bottom of the pool.

The Astoria pool currently has 38 lifeguards on staff, and all those who will be in town plan to participate in the Lifeguard Olympics. Some will also compete in the other swimming events.

The second component of the day will be individual events, open to everyone. Competitors will be divided by youth and adult, and the top three male and female swimmers will receive ribbons. Along with the standard freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke, several creative events will be available. Children will be able to participate in a treasure dive sponsored by the Rogue Pub in which prizes will be tossed to the bottom of the pool and swimmers will keep whatever they find. Adults will be able to attempt the underwater swim competition, and everyone can join in the slide race with awards for speed and biggest splash.

The final component of the competition will be relays for teams of four. Besides the standard medley and freestyle relays, teams can compete in a clothing relay where each person must don the same pair of pants and t-shirt before swimming 25 yards. According to Heidi Orr, this is an event that requires a technique. “You get some skill in getting those wet clothes off and putting them on quickly.” Teams can also join in the innertube and corkscrew relays.

Orr, who has been directing the aquatic center since September, is enthusiastic about the day’s activities. “We’ve never done a community event quite like this before,” she said. “We want lots of people to come and watch or participate. Our staff is very excited about the competition.”

Isaac Ragan, 10, gets ready to take a dip at a recent open swim.Throughout the day, hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks and cookies will be available. Susie’s Chunky Dunkers, a fitness club of water aerobics regulars, has volunteered to run the barbecue under the motto “We don’t skinny dip, we chunky dunk.” T-shirts will be on sale, and following the swimming and lifeguarding competitions, an open swim accompanied by “family-friendly” music will close the day from 5 to 7 p.m.

The Clatsop Splash is a fundraiser, and so far, 13 local businesses have signed up to sponsor the day. For those who plan to compete, drop-in registration will be possible from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday, with competition beginning at 1 p.m.

During a lifeguard exercise at the Astoria Aquatic Center, Alesia McDonald drags Danelle Concienne to the pool edge.Under Orr’s leadership, two more major activities are scheduled this summer at the pool. On Saturday, Aug. 12, the pool will sponsor “Ya Gotta Regatta.” For the third year, children are invited to create a cardboard boat and race it around an obstacle course in the pool. That night, local bands will provide music for a teen swim under the theme, “Hot August Nights.” On Saturday, Aug. 26, the community can participate in a running and swimming biathalon taking advantage of the Riverwalk as well as the pool.

The Astoria Aquatic Center opened in 1998 and has become a model for community pools in other towns. With an average of 7,000 visits per month, the pool provides a venue for lap swimming, North Coast Swim Club practices and events, swimming lessons, water aerobics, water polo, water safety instruction, Coast Guard, Army and ROTC training, physical rehabilitation, school parties, weight training and general fun. Clearly, the pool plays a major role in this community.

Stephanann Costello, left, and Meagan Morrow, both 10, play on innertubes at the pool.Starting when she was 17, Orr has been working at the pool for five years and managing since September. She started as a lifeguard and then ran the swim lesson program. She plans to return to college in the fall.

If you come to watch the festivities, keep an eye on Adam Murray. Murray graduated from Astoria High School in 2005 and is currently a student at Clatsop Community College. He plans to transfer to Portland State and major in sports therapy. He has been a lifeguard at the pool since he was 15, working his way up to lead guard and teacher.

“I grew up coming to the pool,” Murray said. “I went to Tapiola before the aquatic center opened. I was pretty much a pool rat.” One day, the pool director steered him into a lifeguard class, and he soon joined the staff. “It’s an awesome summer job. The schedule works around what you need, and I love coming to this place.” While working at the pool, he has been involved in three rescues, grabbing little children who ventured into areas of the pool beyond their skill levels.

Murray is excited about the competition and will be leading one of the lifeguard teams. He also plans to win the slide competition. “Everybody thinks I’m pretty fast on the slide.” If he does the clothing relay, he wants to “find some skinny partners and baggy clothes. That’s the trick.”