St. Albans Park — Attraction in Christchurch

Dog here.

Nice park with some nice people, someone even left an ice cream container for water at the drink fountain.

I'm not sure what the Klan members dressed all in white had against the ball. It was so confusing to see it abused, throw at a guy with a bat, and then repeated. More confusing is they did that in the open in the middle of the park!

I went to rescue it, but my owner must have been scared of the gang beating it up dressed in white, told me to leave it.

The ball did not even eat a squeaker, so they were not even trying to rescue that out of it.

Anyway, some good trees, a concrete small mountain thing that kids on wheeled planks tols me to avoid me on, some friendly pats, some cakes children can escape from easily and in the other corner some child levitating device I could run beside.

Strange place, well worth exploring, on a hot day in the car a place to refill the pmail and some interesting pmails...

Lovely park for dogs, but many park users seem extremely entitled. On several occasions now, dogs that are off-lead have rushed at my dog, owners up to 50m away, and luckily I have taught mine not to react to such behaviour. But because of the breed of my dog, I am still somehow in the wrong. My dog is perceived as aggressive based on looks and stereotyping. In my experience the most aggressive dogs are the fluffy wee ones who clearly have very little training. Go figure. Sort your noisy slippers out, and then your judgmental looks!

Toilets get one star. Playground gets 3 and a half, skating area looks cool but I'm not a skater so can't really comment. Field is well maintained although parts of it could use improved drainage particularly near...

Avoid in early morning, drunks and drug users. Police callous to disorderly and offensive incidents, e.g. public urination by drunks. Later, good group of responsible dog owners meet. Playground needs fencing. One bin is inadequate for high use, sports groups, as well as over 100 dog walkers weekly using Park as well as...