Welcome to the Caroline Bay Playground in Timaru – designed for a range of ages, stages, sizes and abilities, to inspire inclusive and imaginative play.
Come and play at the Caroline Bay's fun and free playground. Our goal was to help everyone play together, encouraging social interaction, physical activity, and mental stimulation. As well as providing options for the younger children, the adventurous can also seek a range of challenge to stimulates both physical and mental activity.
The playground design was inspired by the Caroline Bay environment, Māori and European stories, history, and heritage.
This is more than just a playground – it's a space for learning through movement, communication, observation, interaction, curiosity, and experimentation.
Here are some of the things you can play on:
- 14m long Bespoke Shipwreck: Shipwheel, Bell, Talker Tubes, Binoculars, Ball Maze Play Panel, Today’s Weather Is Play Panel, Four in a Row Play Panel, Climbing Net and Grips, Koru Wave Slide, Ship Rat Sculptures and Themed Cargo , and Dolphin Rubber Sculpture.
- Bespoke 10m tall Lighthouse & 7m and 5m Mega Tube Slides: Firepole, Climbing Net, Talker Tubes, and Community Mural.
- Embankment slide
- Harmony Metallophone
- Mahika Kai Themed Whare: Timber Slatted Crawl Tunnel, Double Supa Ride Slide, and Firepole.
- Mokihi Custom Seesaw
- Balance Beams
- Tuna Eel mound: 3 x In ground Trampolines, Inclusive Wheelchair trampoline, Inclusive Carousel, Honey Comb Carousel, Wooden Cadenza, Conga Drum Set, Interactive Bridge with Sound, Inclusive Spinning Bucket, Frangipani Nature Rocker, and Tunnels through the Tuna Eel Mound
- Floor is Lava Course: 2 x 3m Ninja Wall & Climbing Rails, 2 x Ninja Style Rock Finger Wall, 3m Triple Rock Wall, Scramble Net, 2 x Horizontal Totem Poles, Up & Over Rope Net, and 2 x Catch the Flag Pole Game
- Jump Touch
- 50m Double Traveller Flying Fox
- Mouse Wheel
- Swings: Double Cyclops Snake Swing, 4 Bay Metal Deluxe - Inclusive 1, 4 Bay Metal Deluxe - Junior, 2 Basket Swings / Flying Saucers, 2 Bay Mega Swing
- Rope Prymid
- Metal embankment slide
- 1960s iconic yellow horse
