Activities @ Waipara Riverside Park
Here at Waipara we have a number of activities that your group could do and some equipment available for hire or use.
ACTIVITIES and EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE
- Orienteering (2 courses presently available including maps and score cards)
- Hobo stove cooking (x12 available)
- Pitching tents (x16 ridge pole A-frame tents sleep 6-8 available for hire @ $15/night or $30/each camp)
- Sausage sizzling/camp fire (outside fire-restricted season)
- BMX Track (x3 BMX bikes available for small charge)
- mountain biking (fleet of 12-14 bikes. Check on number available closer to the time required.
Charges: Per bike: $40/one day; $70/two days; $80/three days; $90/four days; $100/five days Fleet Hire: Based on $20/per/bike/day, (full week hire further discount available) - Water slide (bring own detergent and/or soap. Boxer shorts work best.)
- Confidence course (x13 apparatuses/items including wall, stepping posts, balance rails, climbing frames, burma bridge, swinging frames, rope swings, etc)
- Pillow fights (x6 king of the log pillows available)
- Team building activities (x2 team ski sets, wool sacks, newspaper, tug-of-war rope)
- Trust activities (spider web, free fall, through the tyre, over the pole, peer support rail, tight rope, and others)
- Boating (x2 Aluminium and plastic 4 seater boats available $20/day each)
- Canoeing (fleet of 10 canoes. Charge: $20/canoe/each occasion; $100/fleet/each occasion).
- Raft making and races (tubes and board centres available - bring own ropes)
- Archery ($7/head - up to 16 people per session; gear and instructor supplied)
- Air rifles ($4/head - up to 16 people per session; gear and instructor supplied)
- Climbing/abseiling (instruction avilable, make further enquiries with manager)
- Basketball court and ball
- Grass sledding (x3 plastic sleds available)
- Bobs table x 2
- Fooball tables x 2
- Bivvy making
- Flying fox
- Night line (10 blindfolds and helmets available)
- Scavenger hunts
- Rope 25mm 700mtrs
- Tug of war (rope available)
- Volley ball (net and ball available)
- Petanque (x4 sets and court)
- Compass & map reading (x4 sets)
- Long jump pit
- Rugby/soccer field
- River study
- Bridge or frame building (x31 manuka pole, available bring own twine)
- Swimming
- Wide games
- Trampolines (x2)
- Stilt walking (x12)
- Table tennis (x2 set and table)
- Mountain biking the Waipara Riverbed (supply own bikes)
- Snooker tables x 2
- Others
For a full list of Equipment click here
Further ideas to make up a programme could include these off-site activities:
- visit the Maori Rock drawings in Weka Pass
- Weka Pass Railway
- visit a winery
- visit Glenmark Church
- visit Kate Valley Landfill
- visit Amberley Recycling and Educational centre
- walk the Waipara River and view the concretions and fossils
- a farm visit
- 4wheel drive the river (own vehicles)
- The Ultimate Challenge Centre (suitable for teenagers over 14yrs and adults)