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Location, Location, Location! Situated right next to the beach in Port Melbourne, this is the ideal place to take the family on a hot summer day.

Maritime Cove Community Park playground pays honour to the maritime history of the region, and provides unique and inspiring features for all ages, including wooden bridges, poles and rope structures, a seesaw-activated sprinkler system, and my favourite- a retired yellow maritime buoy that has climbing holds attached, giving kids an extra-special climbing obstacle. The playground itself is based in sand, so get ready to let your hair down and take your shoes off! The large lookout tower with a spiralled, enclosed slide takes center stage here, and is surrounded by world renowned Richter Spielgeräte play equipment (A German family-run business that produces environmentally-friendly wooden play equipment).

There are some shaded areas on each side of the playground but unfortunately, the main area lacks a shade sail, so sunscreen and hats are essential. Toilets can be found further along the boardwalk near the Sandridge Lifesaving Club.

In addition to the main playground, there is a separate play area that is built onto wooden decking with various pieces of play equipment. So if you’re after a less-sandy experience, there is no need to miss out on the fun. And for those more fitness inclined, there is a fully equipped outdoor gym on site also.

Free parking is available along The Blvd. There is also parking available in a service road between Webb Dock and the playground, however this area tends to be rather full.

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A brilliant place space created by the Port of Melbourne using re-purposed equipment to create a Maritime themed park. The playground weaves equipment such as a Crows Nest, channel markers, marine bollards, coloured buoys, rail lines, ladder bridge and steel buoys into a fun and exciting play environment.


Standing high upon the playground is a lookout tower with a spiral slide which takes some effort to reach the slide. Take your pick from wooden ladders, rope ladders or a wibbly wobbly bridge to reach the first level of the tower. Then scramble up a vertical rope tunnel to get to the top of the slide. Unfortunately after all that effort the slide wasn't very slippery or maybe I just had high friction pants on.


The base of the tower has a wooden bridge which leads to a traverse across a thick rope and another traverse across a thin rope bridge to the site of sand play heaven. In this area there are lots of buckets, channels, chain pulleys and cranes to move sand about. This is a brilliant area for budding construction workers to practice their future career. You can also scale the Crows Nest. Crows never had it so good.

At the northern end is an area for the younger kids which has a water play area with hand pump where you can pump water through a series of channels and tables, an old fashioned metal kaleidoscope, car tyre on springs, a big metal disk which rotates and moves around, a long wall with lots of sand play equipment, sea lion sculpture, turtle sculpture, wooden pyramid with tiny metal slide, wooden boat, really interesting mechanical sand digger and a shiny black block with slits which you can hit with a clanger to make truly beautiful music. Normally I don't like the sound of clangers but this one could only be described as melodious.

On the western side is a concrete area which has some water sprays on top of some tall poles. I'll leave it to you to work out the devious ways to get the sprays working but one tip is to investigate the wonderful see-saw made from a wooden pole.

A metal ladder from a ship has been turned into horizontal traverse. There is a high ropes course to traverse across which includes a number of elements including some thin ropes, net and spiders web. A large buoy has climbing holds and there is a wonderful area where logs are piles up in all sorts of directions to make a fun and exciting climbing area.

On the beach side is a boardwalk with a fun and innovative exercise area for both the body and mind which includes a fantastic log sawing station. Can you become the Australia log sawing champion?

The surface of the playground is more gravelly than sandy and has a lot of tiny stones but I'm not going to hold a few stones in my shoes against a playground like this.

There is also an outdoor gym for adults which has ten stations of exercise equipment.

In the playground area there are two shelters from old shipping containers with some seats, water tap, beach shower and unshaded seats. There is a lot of free parking in the area. The nearby Sandridge beach has toilets, tables and BBQs. Caps Cafe is close by.

The playground is located in the Perce White Reserve next to Sandridge Beach. The turnoff to the playground is close to the curve in The Boulevard where is becomes Todd Road.

Some historical background on some of the equipment used in the playground:

Crow's Nest - They are part of the fixed beacons system used to mark navigation channels. The Crow's Nest is part of a navigation beacon. There are lights and navigational markers on top and they can transmit data to the navigation systems in the port, A green triangle means the beacon is on the right (or starboard) side of the channel, if travelling upstream you see a red square (port side) then the channel is between them. The tall structure is required so they can be seen from large ships without the captain looking down on them.

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