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Garden Island, located just outside of Adelaide, South Australia, is an island popular for its recreational boating activities such as kayaking through the mangrove forest and ship graveyard.
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Sophisticated, cultured, neat-casual − the self-image Adelaide projects is a nod to the days of free colonisation. Adelaidians may remind you of their convict-free status – and of the Kaurna Aboriginal heritage of this land – but the stuffy, affluent origins of the 'City of Churches' did more to inhibit development than promote it.

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