Concord Drive Playground

We stopped here to eat our lunch the other day when we were out. Purely because it was nice and shady and had somewhere undercover for us to sit down at an actual table too. And when we turned up it was nice and quiet with no one else there. Not for long…
We had barely started eating when two dads rock up with their daughters (4 of them) for school holidays play obviously. Nice to see. They put sunscreen on and then ran straight to the flying fox. They took it in turns and did not stop or even look at any other play equipment. And the screams from 4 young girls on that type of equipment. Serious headache.
So when we finished lunch my son went on the playground for a while and we both had fun with the spinning thing (even tho part of it was broken when we went, come to think of it two of the lights on the pathway were broken too). In the end I said to him let’s go, you can go on the flying fox another day. I had warned him as soon as they got out of the car that if he wanted a go he better put his food down and go now before they get there, but he decided food was more important at the time).
Plus another group came down as well with their cricket stuff and played on the grassed area. o it quite a popular place and we will probably visit there again one day so he can have a shot on the flying fox.
Fifth star must be with the toilets because they aren’t here either :-(

Oooo, this one JUST missed out on a five star review but man, is this place fun. The play equipment is kind of average except it has one rather large draw card up its sleeve… a flying fox! I’m not talking about the usual three meter metal structure that you see at a lot of playgrounds, and in its own right, is a lot of fun. I’m talking about a real swinging, cable, go-​from-​up-​high-​and-​then-​lower flying fox!
As I was leaving a car pulled up with 2 girls about aged 9 – 10. They burst out of the car doors yelling «Yay! I LOVE this playground!» I wiped a small tear from my eye (joke) and walked away smiling. This is what playgrounds should be about. They should be a place where children laugh and run and play and balance and fall over, and try again, and get better at doing things every time they go there. The girls ran straight over to the flying fox and I can imagine they would have been there for quite some time.
This playground also has a sheltered seating area in between the flying fox and the other playground equipment. There was a working drinking fountain but no toilets.
*Dogs on leash at all times*
*Some shelter and seats*
*No toilets*
*Drinking fountain*