Caroline Bay

Positive experience: Good place to have a walk around and enjoy the views surrounding it.

Fantastic experience: My old home town has set a very high standard for playgrounds. Margaret Mahy has serious competition. Well done Timaru

Positive experience: Someone please tidy up the weeds, there's gorse bushes all over the wetland area, weeds for Africa

Negative experience: Lets call it Dog Poo Bay, at least 50 dogs here all off their leashes. Don’t think you will see seals or penguins as they will chase them all away. Spent the whole walk looking down to avoid all the dog droppings.

Fantastic experience: Nice place to visit

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to take kids they have a awesome playground walking distance to beach althea have a covered paddling pool BBQ area and courts

Fantastic experience: Great programs and wonderful environment!

Fantastic experience: Park is good lot of activities & rides for kids neat & clean

Positive experience: Caroline Bay is beautiful on a sunny day. It features an amazing new playground with instruments, a pretend sunken ship and so many more amazing things. There is also a bird aviary, a rose garden with sculptures and a nice beach.

Fantastic experience: Nice area near the beach, well maintained boardwalk over the dunes, multiple entry points to the sandy beach, outdoor cold showers and toilets available, ample free parking without time limit in the area, area for beach volley and disc golf, some fitness park spots and multiple benches to sit and relax on. On the east side is a penguin colony where penguins can be spotted after sunset. Great place!

Fantastic experience: A great place to spend time with your beloved family. There are various programs and theme parks for children here.

Positive experience: Has a lot of Stuff for Kids and is very Clean too. Only for Skateboarding makes this Park not much fun, because of the rougth concrete.

Fantastic experience: Love it!

Fantastic experience: Great place

Fantastic experience: Very nice

Fantastic experience: Nice open space and could watch the container ship being loaded

Fantastic experience: Great nice place

Fantastic experience: Great place for children

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to go and relax, meditate or just watch the waves while you sunbathe o n the beach

Fantastic experience: Very well maintained park / playground / camping ground / walkway close to the bay.

Positive experience: Excellent visit

Fantastic experience: Such a great experience.

Fantastic experience: Great place for car show Caroline Bay Hop

Fantastic experience: A great new playground for children of all ages.

Fantastic experience: Love the new play ground, just awesome and great to see some cultural input

Fantastic experience: Lovely beach and activities for all at the park. A lovely walk along the beach and coastal path

Fantastic experience: Cool place on A nice day with the kid

Fantastic experience: Taken for granted alot by locals On our doorstep lots things happening to cater for all

Fantastic experience: Great Bay..yummy ice creams! & great park for kids

Fantastic experience: Fantastic family area plenty to do great play area and cool icecream shack

Fantastic experience: Lovely

Fantastic experience: Great playground

Positive experience: Nice to walk around

Fantastic experience: Absolutely beautiful.just love swimming at the bay

Fantastic experience: Quality!

Fantastic experience: Good ol Caroline Bay

Positive experience: Peaceful and quiet good for walks and taking pictures

Fantastic experience: Love it very clean area very busy with carnival

Fantastic experience: Wonderful family place to sit and eat ice-cream. Cool new bike-skills park built by local Lion Club is a great place for little ones to bike or scoot around while parents watch on. Shout out to Mrs Wippie for yummy icecream

Fantastic experience: A big thank you to the Caroline Bay carnival, free camping, concert twice a day, games, fireworks.... Really great again thanx

Fantastic experience: Great place awesome playground

Fantastic experience: Lovely beach, good swimming spot, will definitely be back with the kids this summer.

Fantastic experience: Little packed tonight Might have something to do with the free Kaylee Bell concert!

Fantastic experience: Fun place! It is a big park and they have new playground for kids. Super clean and the view of the Bay from the top entrance is amazing! Ice cream at Mint is delicious!

Fantastic experience: Worth the drive from Dunedin to Timaru as a day drive just for the park with the kids and adults. Sadly was packed due to new years so will defently head back during the year.

Fantastic experience: Love, love, love the new play ground, something for everyone!!

Fantastic experience: Awesome place for the kids and the sound shell for concerts. We'll done Timaru.

Positive experience: Lovely beach for south island

Positive experience: Love taking the kids to the beach and playground.whole family loves coming here.plus the carnival on holidays .great place

Positive experience: Great Bay lots yo do.

Fantastic experience: Warm sunny relaxing place

Fantastic experience: It's always good if your kids enjoy it

Positive experience: Great walkway along beach. Cafe, Rose gardens, christmas carnival and activities for adults and children. Good parking. Walking dogs allowed in winter season on beach.

Fantastic experience: OMG, the aviary is awesome!! The parrots are so gorgeous and funny! I needed this so much :-)

Fantastic experience: Nice day out

Fantastic experience: Loved it

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Positive experience: Great place for kids.

Negative experience: Drove to Timaru from Geraldine, but was not impressed. Too industrial

Fantastic experience: Wonderful for kids and gatherings.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place for everyone to relax

Fantastic experience: Excellent, Rose garden festival.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to spend the NY Eve!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful park to roaming around

Fantastic experience: Nice view to have my maccas at

Fantastic experience: Great place for a family outing

Positive experience: Just parked up, music was ghastly so went on our way.

Fantastic experience: Great new walkways and looks impressive

Fantastic experience: Had a quick look, and what I saw was brilliant. I will post more details later.

Fantastic experience: Get glimpse of Blue penguins we were lucky to spot penguins

Fantastic experience: Always worth the visit.Plenty to see and do.

Fantastic experience: A great family space I believe it could be better utilized

Fantastic experience: Great place to hang out, so big that thousands can enjoy

Fantastic experience: Beautiful coastal area so close to Timaru, love the board walk..

Fantastic experience: Great place for swim the kids love it there

Fantastic experience: Very nice place, interesting things to see

Fantastic experience: We don't appreciate Caroline Bay enough. It offers a lot and its beauty is equal to any I have seen.

Fantastic experience: So much to do for kids! A great place with lots of parking

Fantastic experience: Love this place. It's better in Summer but lots of room to move

Fantastic experience: Great set up for kids big and small and four legs on leads Clean and tidy

Fantastic experience: Beautiful spot, sand beach, walkways, parking, play ground for the kids

Positive experience: Fabulous place for a wander around or to take the kids to burn off some energy

Fantastic experience: Beautiful scenery in a beautiful Bay few different walks footpaths leading to Fitness equipments and carnival when it is open

Fantastic experience: A relaxing place to walk

Fantastic experience: Nice open spaces, bike track for the kids, skate park, plenty of places to walk and easy access to beach.

Fantastic experience: wonderful park

Positive experience: Such a cold wintery day when I visited last, maintenance was happening so couldn't access some areas. But have been on better days and absolutely love it, definitely recommend to go in weekend on a sunny day!

Fantastic experience: So much to see and do

Fantastic experience: Nice beach, picnic areas, playground, padding pool, skate ramps, mini golf and carnal with rides, side shows, competitions and concerts at the sound shell during the festive season. Plenty of family fun.

Fantastic experience: A beautiful treasure of the South Island. We are so blessed to have this beach. Perfect for long walks and a huge variety of sports.

Fantastic experience: It was fantastic. I'd never been there before. A great place for families with plenty of activities for kiddies as well as plenty of food outlets of all kind. I'd recommend it for sure.

Fantastic experience: What a great freedom camping spot.

Positive experience: Such an amazing park right between the beach and town. It would be even more amazing if this was some cool shops with an open cafe on bank holidays. We had a great time.

Fantastic experience: Lots of space that shares with Caroline Bay Association who host the National Wide Known Carnival every year. This space opens for plenty of area for recreational activities. It has BBQ areas closer to the playground, which is currently (2023) in process of being renewed. Tennis courts, basketball court and a court for Bike Polo. There is a central skate park and a roller skate rink that opens in seasons. Freedom camping off Port Loop Road across from Port that has doing and toilets. Must visit on our hot summer days.

Fantastic experience: The new year show. Went down south for the Tom Petty band and loved it. Turned up again for the 2nd round the next day. Nice walk around the grounds. Not too busy but good response from all attending.

Fantastic experience: Cool place sonprettyots to do gor a day or a stop ... beach, pool, playground,avery; train, stage

Fantastic experience: I love visiting Caroline Bay and have done many times whilst staying in Timaru! Lots of stunning walks through the English rose garden and the aviary on the way down to the beach, the beach is lovely and the sea is shallow for quite a while and if you get a chance to go see the penguins I would absolutely recommend it!

Fantastic experience: Maravilloso!! Wonderful

Positive experience: Lots of seaweed from the storms recently.

Fantastic experience: Great place to go to