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An expansive Willunga providore on the High Street stocking local artisan goods for picnic hampers, with a courtyard cafe out the back.

Personalised small-group food and wine tours showcasing McLaren Vale's signature producers - Adelaide pickup with a focus on long lunches and multiple cellar doors.

Walking & Hiking

Alberto Forest

Goolwa

A revegetated forest area on Hindmarsh Island created by community Landcare planting - a quiet bushland walk with birdlife and views to the Murray channel.

A long-running coastal winery established in 1979, sitting under the Sellicks Hills on the Main South Road through Aldinga.

Beaches

Aldinga Beach

Aldinga & Port Willunga

One of the few South Australian beaches where you can legally drive your car onto the sand, a broad flat stretch perfect for kite-flying and sunset-watching.

Wildlife & Nature

Aldinga Reef Aquatic Reserve

Aldinga & Port Willunga

A protected limestone reef system off Aldinga Beach and Port Willunga, fully protected since 1971 and home to wobbegongs, blue devils, schools of reef fish and dolphins.

One of the last remnants of original coastal vegetation on the Adelaide plains, with sandy walking tracks, native woodland, wetlands and abundant birdlife.

Heritage & History

Aldinga Village

Aldinga & Port Willunga

The historic heart of Aldinga - a 1850s farming village laid out by local farmer Lewis Fidge, with a main street of 19th-century buildings surviving today.

A coastal freshwater lagoon system inside Aldinga Conservation Park, with 166+ recorded bird species including hooded plover, mistletoebirds and rainbow bee-eaters.

A small family Jersey dairy in the Mount Compass hinterland, hand-crafting hard-style farmhouse cheese from a single herd of grass-fed Jersey cows.

A mother-daughter boutique cellar door on the old-vine sand of Blewitt Springs, with platters and a relaxed garden setting.

A 32-acre hobby farm with vineyard, cellar door house and two self-contained units (Shiraz and Cabernet) with valley and ocean views near Yankalilla.

Built in 1856 on the corner of Hill and Aldinga Road, the Alma is the unpretentious locals' pub of historic Willunga - hearty meals, cold beer and a cheerful front verandah ideal for a post-market pint.

Experimental small-batch winery exploring an alphabet of unusual grape varietals and blends, with a quirky reservation-only tasting room.

The ground-floor bistro at Anchorage Seafront Hotel on Flinders Parade - seafood, soups and pizzas in a casual dining room overlooking the Victor Harbor foreshore.

A heritage seafront hotel on Victor Harbor's Flinders Parade, originally built as a guest house in the early 1900s, with restaurant, wine bar and rooms looking directly across to Granite Island.

Fifth-generation Angove family winery with a cellar door set amongst the certified organic Warboys Vineyard and the Vineyard Kitchen restaurant.

Small-batch family winery specialising in old-vine McLaren Vale Grenache and Chenin Blanc, with a relaxed cellar door on Kays Road.

A daytime cafe on Dawson Street in central Strathalbyn, open all day for breakfast, brunch and lunch with a friendly local following.

A beachfront kiosk and restaurant on Normanville Beach foreshore, open from breakfast through to dinner with one of the best swimming-beach views on the Fleurieu.

A casual beachside cafe on the road into Goolwa Beach, with ocean views, gelato counter and the standard cafe menu - the natural lunch stop after a Goolwa Beach walk.

A working heritage boatshed on Riverside Drive where volunteers restore and build traditional wooden Murray River boats using century-old slipway equipment. Drop in on open days to watch the craft in action.

A gallery on Normanville's main road dedicated to the work of painters Judith Sweetman and Gilbert Dashorst - coastal landscape work in oils and watercolour.

Goolwa's leading contemporary art gallery on Cadell Street, representing a wide stable of Fleurieu and South Australian artists across paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery.