Victor Eaves Park Playground

Victor Eaves Park sits behind the Orewa shops and is the suburb's working sports park, with cricket in the middle and courts and clubrooms around the edge, and a playground tucked into one corner of it. The equipment leans towards younger children: a wooden climbing frame and tree hut, a basket swing and a spinning carousel, and a flying fox that gets the most use of anything there. A narrow sealed track loops through the park for scooters and balance bikes, and that is often the part that holds a visit together for longer than the play equipment alone would. Shade cloth over the play area helps in midsummer, and there are toilets and parking. Walkways link the park through to the shops and the beach, so it works best as one stop in a longer Orewa morning rather than as the whole of one.