Limestone Coast
The family that runs Majella are fourth-generation Coonawarrans, so they know a thing or two about gutsy reds (love 'The Musician' shiraz-cabernet).
Must-see attractions in South Australia
Barossa Valley
Watch honest-to-goodness coopers make and repair wine barrels, 4km south of town. Amazing! If you want to roll one home, kegs start at $325.
Murray River
A long-running local fruit-juice company (since 1933) with factory-front sales. Its lip-nipping lemon juice is ace on a hot river afternoon.
Fleurieu Peninsula
The district's first winery has a wide range of wines, historic cellars and an old red-gum lever press (don't get your fingers stuck).
Kangaroo Island
A lovely protected beach, around 14km southwest of Penneshaw en route to American River and Kingscote. Good for a quick dip.
Catholic Church of St Peter & St Paul
Outback South Australia
Coober Pedy's first underground church still has a sweet appeal, with statue-filled nooks and hushed classical music.
Fleurieu Peninsula
Run by two savvy sisters, Bremerton is an innovative operator in an old-school region. Top chardonnay and shiraz.
Fleurieu Peninsula
For a solid Langhorne Creek wine overview, try the Winehouse, a collective cellar door for five wineries.
Adelaide
This low-key museum in Glenelg’s 1887 Town Hall building depicts the social history of Glenelg from colonisation to today, and addresses the plight of the…
Haigh's Chocolates Visitor Centre
Adelaide
If you’ve got a chocolate problem, get guilty at this iconic factory. Free 25-minute tours take you through the chocolate life-cycle from cacao bean to…
Adelaide
Check out the infamous and very shiny Mall’s Balls sculpture in Rundle Mall (real name Spheres, by sculptor Burt Flugelman).
Adelaide Hills
Clambering up the slopes from the foothills to Mt Lofty, this conservation park has some steep bushwalking trails through tall eucalyptus forest and cool…
Yorke Peninsula
Sheer cliffs plunge into indigo waters and rocky offshore islands hide small coves and sandy beaches, in this national park at the southern tip of the…
Flinders Ranges
Iga Warta, 57km east of Copley en route to Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park on an unsealed road, is an Indigenous-run cultural centre and bush camp…
Adelaide Hills
This 1857 building houses an art gallery with rotating exhibitions and original sketches by Sir Hans Heysen, famed landscape artist and Hahndorf homeboy;…
Murray River
Berri Estate's production statistics are astonishing: a third of all of SA's grapes are processed here; 100 million litres of wine are exported annually;…
Adelaide
Built in 1866 under the guidance of architect Edmund W Wright, Adelaide's impressive stone Town Hall presides over King William St, locked in an eternal…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Hey, what's that bizarre glowing tower just off the highway 10km south of Port Augusta? It's part of a giant greenhouse tomato-growing facility: hundreds…
Adelaide Hills
Laratinga is the Peramangk name for Mt Barker Creek, now corralled into a thriving man-made wetlands (constructed in 1999) that's become a real haven for…
Troubridge Island Conservation Park
Yorke Peninsula
From the clifftops at Edithburgh, views extend offshore to sandy Troubridge Island Conservation Park, home to much birdlife including penguins cormorants…
Clare Valley
High on the hill, not far east of Sevenhill in the Polish Hill River sub-region (lime-, slate- and mineral-rich soils), Paulett has the best views in the…
Adelaide
Up until 1957, Adelaide had an extensive network of trams spider-webbing out from the city into the suburbs. Then costs, an ageing fleet and public…
Limestone Coast
This is a 50m-deep sinkhole right in the middle of town, with the odd suicidal shopping trolley at the bottom. You can walk down into it, and watch the…
Yorke Peninsula
In an old stone shopfront a few hundred metres from the town jetty (where, the 1920s, salt exports made Edithburgh the third-busiest port in South…
Flinders Ranges
It's not so much what's in Hawker that's interesting − it's more what's around it. But if you prefer your great outdoors to be indoors (and a bit…
Clare Valley
Inside Burra's former post office (1860), this volunteer-run art gallery is worth a look for the original narrow-gauge jarrah floorboards alone! Rotating…
Tumby Bay National Trust Museum
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Inside a prefab 1950s school building, fronted by a rather scrawny tin-man fisherman, Tumby Bay's little history museum is chock-full of interesting odds…
Barossa Valley
What's that smell? Oh, it's coming from those big purple fields! Lyndoch Lavender Farm is a working producer of sweet-smelling stuff – oils, lotions, tea,…
Flinders Ranges
Around 27km north of Port Pirie, little Port Germein (population 370) is famous for it's enormous timber jetty. It was built in 1881 to enable large wheat…
Meningie Cheese Factory Museum
Limestone Coast
Beneath a saw-tooth factory roof, this curio-filled country museum displays old butter churns, vintage typewriters, heritage farm equipment and domestic…
Adelaide
This towering sandstone edifice on North Tce has been a bastion of secret handshakes and funny robes since 1927. But like other things that most people…
Flinders Ranges
Snowtown, 79km south of Port Pirie, has a bad rep for some particularly grisly murders which transpired here a few years back. Far more uplifting is the…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Next to the visitor centre, the Whyalla Maritime Museum includes the HMAS Whyalla, allegedly the largest landlocked ship in Australia (who keeps track of…
Fleurieu Peninsula
About 5km south of town, the Goolwa Barrage (built 1935) marks the junction between the fresh-water Murray River and the saltwater Coorong National Park…
Emu Ridge Farm Eucalyptus Distillery
Kangaroo Island
A detour off Hog Bay or Birchmore roads takes you past this self-sufficient operation (all solar-, steam- and wind-powered) extracting eucalyptus oil from…
A Special Place for Jimmy James
Murray River
A short amble from the visitor centre, this living riverbank memorial honours a Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal tracker who could 'read the bush like a…
Adelaide
Quality contemporary local arts and crafts and brilliant bejewelments, plus workshops and a hellishly hot glass-blowing studio turning out gorgeous glass …
Kangaroo Island
Say hello to some local koalas at this private wildlife reserve, best experienced on a Koala Walk (sightings guaranteed). Come back at night for a…
Outback South Australia
Next to Coober Pedy's improbably quaint Greek Orthodox Church, with its wrought-iron bell tower, this dusty plot began when James Conly became the town's…
Flinders Ranges
Feel like a dip? Put your memories of 'Shakka the Shark' at the Port Pirie Regional Tourism & Arts Centre to one side and jump off the jetty into the safe…
