This is a beautiful and well maintained gardens and being close to St Kilda Pier and by the sea, is in a picture perfect location and a perfect place for picnics, a children's play area, and a venue for weddings and wedding photography, open-air festivals including creative arts and music festivals, and other community events. The weekend gentle pony rides are popular with families.

The facilities at the gardens are excellent and include, restrooms with disabled toilets and baby change, a large children's playground set into a large sand pit and with shade sails and bright contemporary play equipment, a large rotunda/gazebo which is ideal and often used for intimate weddings and wedding photography, BBQ’s, foreshore cafe kiosks nearby, picnic tables, bench seats, drinking fountain, beautiful walking paths lined with magnificent large Canary Island palm trees, perimeter paths for walking or jogging, large areas of lush green lawns and mature shade trees, fun possums and birds to look at, and lots of great foreshore views, a picture perfect spot for sunset viewings.

The main disappointment here is the condition and cleanliness of the toilets. The public toilets need more regular maintenance.