No, it’s not actually hidden, rather clearly visible from Roghan Road. Still, this large playground in Brisbane’s north has something quite unusual: a (fictitious) backstory.
Plaques claim that the park exists over the site of a prehistoric habitat for a race of sentient marsupial mice that was discovered in 1989. The plaques contain a code that purports to be the language of these creatures, and kids (should they be so motivated) can use the code to decipher messages hidden around the playground.
But it’s likely that they will be too busy gallivanting around the series of little wooden pavilions with brown corrugated iron roofs that are joined by boardwalks over a large sandpit. There are accessible swings and a wheelchair-accessible roundabout, several slides and a couple of large insect creatures with tall spines to climb on.
A 360-degree tyre swing offers plenty of vertiginous fun for one or two littlies at a time. There are toilets, barbecues, and clusters of local parents chatting away while their kids play epic games of tag.
