Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
The endearing little Streaky Bay Museum occupies a 1901 school house, and features a fully furnished pug-and-pine hut, birds eggs and shell collections,…
Must-see attractions in South Australia
Flinders Ranges
There's a 1917 first-class railway carriage marooned in a car park on Peterborough's main street! Inside is an interesting history display, covering local…
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide
Tandanya offers an insight into the culture of the local Kaurna people, whose territory extends south to Cape Jervis and north to Port Wakefield. Inside…
Limestone Coast
Out on Cape Dombey, the ruins of Robe's original jailhouse are slowly eroding under the sun and salt. Built from local limestone in 1861, it wasn't the…
Mannum Dock Museum of River History
Murray River
Inside the Mannum Visitor Information Centre, this museum features info on local Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal communities, an 1876 dry dock (possibly the only…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Seems like everywhere you go in SA these days there's a winery cellar door (well, except the desert). Port Lincoln is no exception. On the northern…
Limestone Coast
The Lady Nelson Discovery Centre (access via the visitor information centre) features a replica of the historic brig Lady Nelson, the sailors aboard which…
Barossa Valley
Inside this 1856 post office building are displays of bone-handled cutlery, butter-making gear, photos of top…
Kangaroo Island
Started by a renegade Frenchman in 2000, Islander Estate is now a veteran in the KI wine scene, bottling-up un-oaked chardonnay, shiraz and a very fruity…
Barossa Valley
The shiraz and riesling vintages here (oh, and the semillon) are probably the most consistent, affordable and widely distributed wines in the Barossa…
Murray River
Out past the orange groves of Ramco on the way to Morgan, 23km west of Waikerie, casual Caudo takes a defiantly un-snobbish approach to the business of…
Yorke Peninsula
Lording it over the local school yard (this used to be the headmaster's house), Stansbury's museum digs into the town's post-colonial history with a…
Limestone Coast
A rubbish dump prior to 1979, this meandering cave system runs beneath Jubilee Hwy and 19 local houses! Tours last 45 minutes and take you down to an…
Clare Valley
Up a little gravel driveway through some big black gates (no need to shut them), this upbeat little cellar door has been making a few 'Best New Wineries'…
Limestone Coast
There are some great walking tracks in this 710-hectare park, sandwiched between the coast and Lake George 2km north of town, taking you past Aboriginal…
Adelaide Hills
Inside a large stone longhouse behind Lobethal, fronted by neat Italianate parterre gardens, Golding scores big on aesthetics and cool-climate classics:…
Barossa Valley
Laced with excellent walks, 390-hectare Kaiserstuhl is en route from Mengler Hill to Angaston. The Stringybark Hike (2km loop) and Wallowa Hike (4.7km one…
Port Pirie Railway Station Museum
Flinders Ranges
A gorgeous piece of Victorian-era architectural confection (1902), this National Trust museum was once Port Pirie's railway station, and it remains the…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
This fortified, mural-clad bunker on the northern edge of town is actually a thriving arts centre, selling works by more than 130 Aboriginal artists from…
Barossa Valley
In the northern Mt Lofty Ranges, a 20km hook south of Lyndoch, Para Wirra offers over 14 sq km laced with walking tracks, scenic drives, barbecues,…
Yorke Peninsula
Around 14km south of Maitland, Barley Stacks is further proof that you can make great wine pretty much anywhere in South Australia (below a certain…
Mary MacKillop Interpretive Centre
Limestone Coast
The centre occupies a jaunty building with a gregarious entrance pergola (perhaps not as modest as St Mary might have liked). There's oodles of info on…
Outback South Australia
You can't miss the Big Winch with its big dangling bucket, from which there are sweeping views over the Coober Pedy rooftops. A planned 'world-class…
Adelaide
Wander down to the Port Adelaide docks for a look at the oldest clipper ship in the world (1864). The high-and-dry hulk of the City of Adelaide was…
Flinders Ranges
From the Kanyaka ruins (41km north of Quorn on the Quorn–Hawker Rd), it's a 20-minute walk to a waterhole loomed over by the massive Death Rock. The story…
Adelaide Hills
You'll see more than 300 of legendary landscape painter Sir Hans Heysen's original doodles on a tour through his former studio and house, 2km northwest of…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
About 20km south of Port Lincoln, Mikkira Station was Eyre Peninsula’s first sheep station, and is also home to more koalas than seems plausible, plus the…
Flinders Ranges
Occupying an old courthouse (1862) and Melrose's former police HQ – from where the local cops once patrolled as far as the Northern Territory (!) – this…
Kangaroo Island
Lavender is yet another species that thrives in KI's Mediterranean climate. Follow the purple haze to this cute little roadside farm, where you can sniff…
Flinders Ranges
Out of town, derelict ruins litter the Quorn–Hawker Rd, the most impressive of which is Kanyaka, a once-thriving sheep station founded in 1851. From the…
Kangaroo Island
Built on the hill in 1859, this cottage is now a fastidiously maintained National Trust museum decked out in period style, with a reconstructed Masonic…
Flinders Ranges
What was going on in Orroroo 500 years ago? If this giant river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) could talk, it'd be able to give us a first-hand…
Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery
Limestone Coast
Housed in a stately old mansion in the town centre, between the bowls club and the car dealer, Naracoorte's art gallery displays ceramics, etchings,…
Murray River
This chunky steel truss bridge has conveyed a vehicle or two across it's broad span since it opened to traffic in 1927. The central span raises to allow…
Murray River
Squawk! There have been 180 species recorded at Gluepot Reserve, a mallee scrub area 64km north of Waikerie (off Lunn Rd – about a 90-minute drive) and…
Adelaide
If not for the Adelaide Oval next door, this imposing sandstone cathedral (harking back to 1869) would be the biggest architectural object within miles…
Murray River
In an old stone villa just below the main shopping strip, Rain Moth exhibits the best the local art crew can produce. 'Waikerie' comes from the local Meru…
Barossa Valley
Inside Tanunda's austere, grey-fronted Soldiers Memorial Hall you'll find an eclectic collection of paintings, crafts and touring exhibitions, plus an…
Encounter Coast Discovery Centre & Museum
Fleurieu Peninsula
Inside Victor's 1866 Customs House on the foreshore, this National Trust museum has interesting local-history displays from pre-European times to around…
Yorke Peninsula
This fully restored 1870 mud-and-grass miner's cottage and garden is part of the sprawling Moonta Heritage Site, 1.5km east of town. It's typical of the…
