A Half-Day Out to the Hamilton Gardens

The most highlight for this Deaf with CP and speech impaired elderly chap enjoyed his half-day outing at the Hamilton Gardens today.

It had been a long time since this chap visited the Hamilton Gardens and his name is Jacek, who is over 67 years old. In New Zealand, we people faced the lockdown – COVID19 back in March 25th 2020. No one was allowed to visit the Hamilton Gardens in fear of catching and spreading the nasty grimes – COVID19. This year is the worst history of COVID19 around the world since the outbreak in Wuhan, China between October and December 2019. The WHO (World Health Organisation) announced the outbreak COVID19, was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020, and a pandemic in March 2020. Now in New Zealand, we are in Level One two weeks ago where we go anywhere as long as we make sure to wash our hands, keep the distance within 1 metre and if anyone is not well or feeling ill then must stay home.

Hamilton Gardens is one of the popular attractions in Hamilton City. There is much history about this gardens back to 1960s where there was a bleak city rubbish dump near the Hamilton East Cemetery. The rubbish dump covered blackberries with seagull flying circle around looking for foods and berries. Hamilton City Council owned and managed the Hamilton Gardens along with the local support and community groups such as Roses Club and Hamilton Friends Garden over many years. Today this Hamilton Gardens receive popular visitor attraction of nearly 1.5 million visitors each year and become an award-winning public garden. I want to say these Hamilton Gardens are accessibility for all people with disabilities like Jacek, for example, you can hire a wheelchair or a mobility scooter if you have elderly parents or a disabled person finding challenging to walk along the way. My suggestion is to book to hire a wheelchair or a mobility scooter advance for the weekend outing. There is an accessible toilet facility along with public toilets, public bus transport and plenty of car parks. For your information about accessibility, there is a map of the Hamilton Gardens can be found on the website here –https://hamiltongardens.co.nz/visit/

Today I took Jacek to one or two of the newest gardens in one of the Fantasy Garden Collection. It is called the Surrealist Garden and the Tudor Garden. Here are a few more photos to show.

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Oh and awe what remarkable picturesque of the plants and enormous figures display and delighted to many people and children. As you can see the photos, there were many people with children entertained and ran around the gardens with awe, gladly and amusing with laughter and fun. How about the video here?

Indeed, what a beautiful day to attend the gardens and enjoy having lunch at the cafe near Turtle Lake. Mind you, at the cafe, it was hectic, and the cafe business will reap for the loss of the profit during the lockdown. We were grateful for one of the staff managed to find a table for us to sit down due to Jacek’s disability.

Another day to revisit the other garden collections on a beautiful sunny day in the future or before Christmas time. Why not? It would be best if you visited this Hamilton Gardens and enjoy your time walking around, relax on the grass and to play bocce, even go to the cafe and have a meal there.