Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

It's little wonder Australia's richest landscape art prize is staged on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Beautiful, bald hills sweep down to sun-drenched beaches. Wineries, orchards and pastures are patch-worked between bushland; and quiet roads lead to alluring cellar doors where you can sit back and take it all in.

And it's all less than 40 minutes from Adelaide. Jump in the car, drive south on the Fleurieu Way and within the hour you can be walking, surfing or fishing on long, sandy beaches; or eating the catch of the day at the beachside Flying Fish cafe in Port Elliot. Drive straight down the coast to dive on the former warship HMAS Hobart at Yankallila Bay; or begin the 1500 kilometre Heysen Trail at Cape Jervis, weaving your way through the dense bushland of Deep Creek Conservation Park.

Further around the coast you'll find Victor Harbor, South Australia's most popular seaside town with its horse-drawn tram to Granite Island, the historic Cockle steam train and whales playing just offshore in the winter months. Then it's round to the pretty, historic river port of Goolwa, Hindmarsh Island and the mighty Murray River mouth and the internationally renowned Coorong National Park.

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[STEAMRAILWAYSHOP]

When visiting this area please take a trip on the Steamranger Tourist Railway from Mount Barker to Victor Harbor...a beautiful and relaxing journey.

[StylidiumLane]

Every day I pinch myself & say OMG I live here!

[recluse69]

quite easily taken for granted when one grows up there in god's waiting room... now i'm older i can see the attraction for retiree's