Adelaide is South Australia’s capital city. South Australia has beautiful beaches stretching along the coastline offering fishing, boating, surfing and a great place for family holidays. South Australia is known as the wine capital of Australia ( which is 48% of Australia’s vineyard area ) with over 200 cellar doors all a close drive from the centre of the city. The Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island are popular tourist spots.
Adelaide Zoo
Take the kids for a day out at the zoo and see a panda, koala, kangaroo, emu, tasmanian devil, sumatran tiger, lion, orangutan, siamang, lyrebird, monkey or giraffe
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide
The Botanic Gardens run school holiday activities in January. Activities promote fun, hands-on learning about plants, people and the environment.
South Australian Museum
The school holiday program offers a range of free experiences to over 5000 school aged children during each school holiday period. Each week-long program is designed to evoke children’s curiosity.
Adelaide Festival Centre
Diverse program of festival quality shows for a broad range of tastes and budgets including Comedy, Dance, Exhibitions, Family, Music, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre, Festivals
Adelaide Festival
Diverse art forms from across Australia and around the world. Theatre, Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Writers’ Week and Film
Adelaide Fringe Festival
Annual open-access arts festival run over four weeks in Adelaide, South Australia during February and March
Crush Festival
Adelaide Hills Crush Festival Wine Food Fashion Music Art
Tour Down Under
The Santos Tour Down Under is a UCI WorldTour cycling race, held in Adelaide, South Australia.
WOMADelaide
WOMADelaide runs over four days in Botanic Park in inner-city Adelaide
Destination Wilpena Pound, in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia Wilpena Pound, in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia was our destination ( from Melbourne). The weather was very hot (40+ degrees) most days with a rainy day at the start and end of our trip. This was our first camping trip by ourselves ( at age … Read more
A good starting point to finding out what to do when you visit somewhere new is to go to the visitor centre. The Lady Nelson visitor centre in Mount Gambier has some great resources and very helpful staff. There are shelves of brochures and a walk through display at this centre. It’s all really well … Read more
We really enjoyed our stay at the Wilpena Pound Resort campsite. It was low season and very hot the whole time we were there. We used the tent as a base to sleep and the car as an air conditioner and the 43 degree heat didn’t really bother us! It did cool down at night ( … Read more
Arkaroo Rock aboriginal cave paintings Arkaroo Rock is a short drive from Wilpena Pound about 17 km south of Wilpena on Hawker Road. We set out to do this walk on a sticky, overcast, humid day. It was much cooler than the previous days however the humidity made it feel sticky. We had plenty of water in … Read more
Sacred Canyon aboriginal engraving site We went to ask the guys at the Wilpena Pound Resort information desk for ideas on what to do after seeing Blinman, and the Gorges the day before. The suggestion was to checkout Sacred Canyon which had some aboriginal rock engravings to look at. Sacred Canyon is a short drive from Wilpena … Read more
It was with great excitement David and I woke up had breakfast and did our final pack of the car for our first camping trip ( at a mature age) by ourselves. Our destination was Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges in South Australia and we planned on staying there a few nights then driving back via … Read more
Melbourne to Wilpena Pound My parents had done a road trip to Wilpena Pound and raved about the beauty. There were old buildings and beautiful scenery the whole way. We were looking for a memorable scenic trip as our first real camping trip so this was going to be our destination. We had also heard … Read more