Coffs Harbour

This is Coffs Harbor skate park, if it can be called one.

Compared to the new parks in the Clarence out of the box programs, this one is seriously sketchy, even though it is a piece of history, being so old.

The main ramp is very rough, I am assuming that they used planks to hold the concrete on that angle when making it, so when riding it, you get jarred by the changes.

The ramps are built off the ground by about an inch on the "box" , with the smoothest thing being the ramps on the side, however there is no room to get any speed.
Any way, it is across the road from the high school and beside the fitness center and sport fields.

Copmanhurst

The Copmanhurst skate park is another of the new council out of the box programs and is pretty good, however the bark chip gardens that are a feature of all the new parks, are ridiculous. I mean why put the gardens in between the concrete pad and the landing areas of the ramps ?

 If people cant do airs they are going to have to land some tricks in the bark, and to do so requires a lot of precision and balance.

When I first went to this park, I had terrible wheels that had huge chunks missing out of them, but we were at Grafton recently and my tire came off so I got new wheels and I didn't want to ruin them by landing in the bark chips, so that could be a problem for people who want to conserve there wheels.

The skateboarders hate them as well, with everyone landing in the bark, it gets sprayed back into the ramps and the wheels on the boards get jammed on the chips, causing a lot of frustrating crashes.

The concrete seems slightly absorbent, maybe from rubber under it ? but I don't know.

All of these parks were built by a local company, Nano Build, the designs are pretty good.

This new out of the box program is a youth employment and recreational thing, from the Clarence Valley Council.

Coutts Crossing

So, once again we are back from the north coast, and got some pics of the out the box program by CVC, and namely two of the four skate parks recently built, Copmanhurst and Coutts crossing.

Although both are good, I prefer the one at Coutts, not Copmanhurst, but that is just personal preference as it is a mini half pipe and has plenty of room on the decks, but is only if your confident and capable of riding it, so don't ride it strait out of the car with stiff legs like I did ! as you can see it is rather a fail in the vid, as I was to stiff  to do much.

Any way, I will put the Copmanhurst one up later but for now here is Coutts
Sorry, no vid as it is to slow but here are some pics

Baradine.....

This is the local sport field at Baradine, and it is one of the very few places that we can ride living here, and the seats up behind the stairs are a good source of entertainment, going to have to take the grind wax up today, but anyway, considering that this is a skate park blog, I know that its not a park but until we go to another one this is all I can do really, but the tree stump in the bottom photo is fun to double whip off, for those who can ! its not easy.... especially for those who haven't done it before and aren't wearing high tops, be warned your ankles are going to be scarred.

Port Campbell

This is another park that was on the trip a while ago, and I had a bit of trouble remembering were it was so I found the park at Skateboard.comskateboard.com.au, which was helpful and we have used there site a fair bit in the past to find a park to ride.

Any way, here are some of the old photos.

Aeireys Inlet

 This was a small park we found at Aireys Inlet, sadly we didn't get many pics as there wasn't much to get,so the one on top is from Skate park Hunter, which can be found at http://www.skateparkhunter.com/australia/

The spine is the most shallow thing ever, I cant even remember if it had coping, as it is like a box with no top.

The ramp at the end was probably the best bit, easy to air on and enough room for landing and also it is fun to grind the coping on it.

Also there are two small half pyramids, one on each corner of the box end, but the box itself is to small to do anything over it without being able to go high on the spine.

Runaway Bay

This is a park at runaway bay, that although it was soaked from the recent downpour my brother had to ride on the big ramp, and give his bearings a life shortening experience.

also at the side of this park, there was a sketchy little setup like the park at Coonabarabran that had dried up enough to ride as there was no puddles, but due to my fiddly computer was not up loadable.