Old Police Station & Courthouse Museum
Clare Valley
Clare's 1850 brick-and-stone cop shop and courthouse is now the Old Police Station Museum, displaying Victorian clothing, old photos, furniture and…
Must-see attractions in South Australia
Limestone Coast
The oldest Coonawarra winery, Wynns’ cellar door dates from 1896 and was built by Penola pioneer John Riddoch. Wynns is major mainstream exporter, but you…
Limestone Coast
In Penola's visitor centre building, this museum casts a web over local history back to the 1850s, covering the local Pinejunga people and original Penola…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
This fine little museum in the back streets (a school house from 1914 to 1927) has pioneer exhibits, Indigenous artefacts, whale remnants and a display on…
Kangaroo Island
Runs 20-minute factory tours where you can study up on passive, hard-working Ligurian bees and bee-keeping, then stock up on by-products (bee-products?)…
Clare Valley
Sure, it’s a massive nation-wide operation with a heinous mock-castle cellar door…but the wine here is fit for royalty (love the cab sav). Winery tours…
Adelaide
Trainspotters rejoice! A delightfully nerdy museum crammed with railway memorabilia. The bookshop stocks as much Thomas the Tank Engine merchandise as you…
Southern Fleurieu Historical Museum
Fleurieu Peninsula
At the Port Elliot Showgrounds in the backstreets, this little country museum takes a look at local life through a pre-1960 lens with history of fashion (…
Outback South Australia
The bleak, table-like Moon Plain on the road between Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta is a surreal place. The earth here has an oddly crusty, fractured surface:…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
In the noble heritage-listed Port Lincoln railway station building (1927) and an adjacent freight shed, this trainspotters paradise shines a light on how…
Murray River
Down by the river, this mildly kitsch (but nonetheless interesting) man-made village is a re-created time warp of 45 dusty, rusty old buildings and old…
Barossa Valley
Tanunda is flush with historic buildings, including the quaint cottages around this square, on John St. This was the ziegenmarkt, a meeting and market…
Barossa Valley
Built in 1927, the Seppelt Family Mausoleum is Grecian tomb fronted by chunky Doric columns, up a steep flight of steps on Seppeltsfield Rd. Great views!…
Clare Valley
Taking a minimal-intervention approach to wine making, Knappstein has built quite a name for itself. Shiraz and riesling steal the show, but it also makes…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
The highlight at this combined museum/visitor centre is the Tunnel of Time, which traces local Aboriginal and European histories using audio-visual…
Barossa Valley
Using only Barossa grapes, reliable St Hallett produces reasonably priced but consistently good whites (try the Poacher’s Blend) and the excellent Old…
Adelaide
Exquisitely manicured, fenced Japanese gardens on a quiet reach of South Tce. A top spot for a quiet lunch/mediation/snooze in the sun. Himeji is Adelaide…
Fleurieu Peninsula
The plump little highbush blueberry grows particularly well on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Give these farmers a call to see if you can come and pick a punnet…
Barossa Valley
Explore 363 tranquil hectares of wattles, banksias and spring heaths, plus pink, blue and statuesque river red gums. Steep tracks for experienced hikers…
Limestone Coast
Heritage-listed stone buildings dating from the late 1840s to 1870s litter the streets of Robe, including the upstanding little 1863 Customs House, now a…
Fleurieu Peninsula
There's a small local history museum out the back of the Yankalilla visitor centre. Look for the radar antenna from the scuttled HMAS Hobart, now a dive…
Limestone Coast
One of Penola's first streets. Most of the original buildings have been razed, but urban archaeologists can still see a few old timber-slab houses, red…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Yes, there's a 150-year-old chapel here, and it's on a hill. But most folks are here for salubrious shiraz. Try a $15 'icon' tasting of four wines,…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Not for the weak-kneed (see-through metal steps!), this 1882 water tower across the gulf in Port Augusta West affords a great view across the water and…
Outback South Australia
Meandering through the sand hills of this desert reserve, the Strzelecki Track spans 460km from Lyndhurst, 80km south of Marree, to the tiny outpost of…
South Australian Aviation Museum
Adelaide
This not-for-profit collection of retired old birds (plus rockets from Woomera and a not-so-old F-111) roosts in an old hangar in the Port Adelaide back…
Kangaroo Island
Loong beach between Penneshaw and American River, backed by rows of fancy beach houses. Go for a wander and see what's washed in on the tide.
Outback South Australia
A simple, compact bunker with rows of chairs and remote sermons beamed onto a big screen. Pull up a pew and contemplate your misdoings.
Outback South Australia
Perpetuating small-town Australia's established tradition of building 'big' objects to attract the tourists (banana, crayfish, pineapple etc), Coober Pedy…
