By Justin Atkinson, 27 July 2023
After a successful debut, a playground crawl sequel was commissioned exactly 3 months afterwards. This time, an ambitious multi-suburb mission crossed Johnsonville, Broadmeadows, and Khandallah!
12. West Park School's Dodgy Flying Fox
Bad, it was literally missing most of it's bolts, its curved design made it hard to use, and was attached to some boring platforms.
11. St Brigid School's "Thought Experiment"
We appreciated that the design was out of the box, but overall it wasn't very interactive or fun to use.
10. St Brigid School's Normal Playground
Not great, boring both in terms of features and aesthetics.
9. Kipling St Play Area
Decent, had a cool wobbly fish you could ride and dual slides, but nothing amazing.
8. Kanpur Rd Play Area
Poor Broadmeadows' only playground, had a few cool elements like weird climbing ropes, but felt a bit empty and too spread out.
7. Gilbert Young Play Area
Awesome circle swing and solidly built slide/climbing frame, nicely compact too (forget its use as a waiting area for the brothel next door...)
6. West Park School's Senior Playground
Weird but fun at the same time, with an amazing swing hammock and trippy red and blue design! Very climbable too.
5. Khandallah Library 6-Legged Elephant
Such a cool concept playground, basically just a slide with some tunnels but it looks awesome. We bumped into some teenagers sitting under it and gave them a fright!
4. West Park's Junior Playground
Great aesthetics and colour scheme, cool flying fox and nice layout. We slightly freaked out a teacher going home on our way through the school gate, they asked what we were doing and someone said "some research"...
3. Johnsonville Memorial Park
Underrated, a great central fort with double slides, surrounded by lots of fun spinny things and some cool swings.
2. Raroa Intermediate
Absolutely massive, felt like a boot camp with some really challenging elements, but fun at the same time. Best bits are the hand cycle/pullup machine and the climbing tyres. Not great for those who are less athletic though!
1. Khandallah Park
Nicely balanced playground with a great flying fox, scary rainbow slide that drops steeply, cute climbing decagons, and four seat see-saw among other things. Not to mention nearby access to Khandallah pool and Mt Kaukau!
