Bobbin Head: locked-down and lonely

 

Another day, another park (or three)

Dunrossil Park, in Carlingford, is a strange little patch of greenery. Most of it is bowl-shaped, and looks like it could be an interesting place to check out after heavy rain.

 

There are tennis courts and a children's playground squeezed into there too.

 

 

 

West Epping Park, popular and eye-catching as ever. I don't like that plastic grass they've put down though.

 

 

 

And Hazelwood Rose Park, also Carlingford.Looks like it's had a bit of a facelift recently too.

A real village green!

Bella Vista's Village Green Park turns out to be just that. It's a splendid green exercise area, and Bella Vista suburb is basically stretched out around it. I counted seven separate entrance paths from the various directions.

 

I've a feeling it used to be a lake or a swamp, and there are flood warning signs, but the drains are big and numerous, and I suspect it copes most of the time.

 

Eight out of ten at least!

Edward Bennett Oval, Cherrybrook

 

 

A very nice little strolling park, with an exceptionally neighbourly atmosphere, I thought. Maybe because it's tucked away in a nice spot, away from all the through traffic. Like many, it's got an adventure playground, and we watched some very gung-ho small girls trying to do a 360 with their basket swing!

Mackillop Drive Reserve, Baulkham Hills

 

Seven out of ten. A good medium sized park, with nice facilities and a few distinct spaces. And it's got a connecting bushy pathway to the enormous Crestwood Reserve, a few hundred metres away. More about that one soon.

Lockdown 2 exercise park #31: Roxborough Rose Garden

 
It's attached to the Alfred Henry Whaling Reserve in Baulkham Hills, and it's an even more interesting find. How do they keep things like this a secret? It's one of the biggest rose gardens in the region, I read, and yet I'd never heard of it. 

Not actually peak flowering season now, but it will look pretty good when it is!

Lockdown 2 exercise park #30: Alfred Henry Whaling Memorial Reserve

 

Nothing to do with whaling, the activity. It's named after a former Mayor, whose surname was Whaling. But it's a great little park. Not so little at all, in fact.

There's an attached rose garden, plus a huge aquatic centre, undergoing a major transformation at the moment.

 

 

 

We'll be back again sometime, to monitor its progress.