Such a great place for outdoor ice skating!
I went in the evening for my first ever experience of outdoor ice skating and had such a good time, it's a super cute place. There's plenty of parking and there wasn't even that many people there when we arrived around 7pm. It's a short walk from the car park to the skating rink, which has fire pits and wooden benches on a rubber mat surface. There was also music playing on a loudspeaker - think 80s power ballads (!) but it was fun and added to the atmosphere.
There are about five steps that you walk down to get to the rink, and the first few metres of ice was really slushy when we went! I almost stacked it a few times getting out to the ice but other than a few slushy spots, the ice was really good given the warm weather lately. Apparently sometimes there are other iced over parts of the water that connect but they weren't open at the time. There was a great mix of people there, from a few young kids playing with a ball on the ice, to a few families with really young kids, to couples, to friends just hanging out together. It was a really relaxed atmosphere and most people were just leisurely making their way around the lake.
We rented skates from Sports Rent - I think each pair was about $12/day, and you have until 10pm to return them (on a Saturday anyway). This was perfect because the park closes at 10pm!