I pride myself on knowing all the good places to take the kids locally, but what’s this……… a play park I didn’t know about?
It can’t be?
Hubby saw an amazing park tagged on someone’s Facebook feed, and it was one neither of us had heard of or seen before.
Doing some research I soon found it set in the heart of the multi-millionaires village of Canford Cliffs in Poole, so planned a visit to see what all the fuss was about.
I give you the Treasure Island Play Park!
With a Pirate theme running through the whole park the kids had a blast.
The first port of call was the double swing, which quite happily seats five children, or two children with a Mummy (or Daddy) in-between. I have to admit that this was probably my favourite piece of equipment in the park and think every park should have one!
We explored every inch of the park, finding ship wrecks and treasure along the way. The play equipment included a rocking boat, a bouncy dolphin, a roundabout that you wound up and then let go and it spun you to the floor, plus a wrecked Pirate Ship climbing frame and canon!
There was lots of role play with the children pretending to be Pirates and they made friends with other children playing in the park. At one point there was a resounding version of “What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor” being sung!
We even got to hoist a flag!
My one grumble about the park is the lack of equipment for younger children, but then Sebastian would spend all day on the swing if he could.
It is definitely a park we will visit again, plus its a short walk to the beach. Whilst I was there I got chatting to another Childminder who told me all about Pinecliff Play Sculptures which are around the corner – that’s another day out to plan for!.
When looking for play park, check your local council website……I wish I had done it sooner!
That looks wonderful.
Sadly all the playparks near me have been ruined by teenagers
I have to admit that it is very disappointing that our local council didn’t out as much effort into our park as they did this one!
That looks like a great play park, no wonder the millionaires didn’t want anyone to know about it!! It’s always great discovering somewhere new isn’t it.
This looks like a great place to play and tire everyone out :o) x
I never thought to check the council website for parks. I’ll be doing that today!
I love that double swing 🙂
Same thing happened to me last week! Sadly it involves a car trip to get there. All the local parks are terrible and have been vandalized.
This looks like a great place for a visit. x
Wow, what a brilliant looking park! Would definitely love to visit there…I mean the kids would (of course! 😉 )
Wow. This looks amazing. I love pirate themed things. I’d be as bigger kid as mine if we had that near to us. Good find!
What an amazing looking park! So much to do there 🙂 x
What a great looking park. I particularly like the swing, such a fantastic idea. Fingers crossed we’ll get a swing like that coming our way soon. Brilliant!
it’s always exciting to discover a new playpark!
That swing is inspired. Oh how I needed that when the boys were younger
That is a really cool playpark! And the swing for five kids, or two with the mummy, is the coolest swing I’ve ever seen.
Great place for kids to play! Looks like they had fun! x
If I’m ever in this neck of the woods, will have to check this park out. We love pirates!
Such a great find! I’ve found a few new places due to people tagging themselves nearby too x