Beach for Families
South Australia has plenty of child-friendly beaches.
If you're based in Adelaide, Semaphore, Henley Beach, Glenelg and Port Noarlunga are top spots to watch the kids build sandcastles, venture onto playgrounds, or slurp an ice cream.
Glenelg, South Australia's favourite seaside playground, has a beautifully landscaped foreshore and reserve areas, cafes and restaurants and beach leisure activities. It's also home to the Beachouse, a fantastic amusement complex with waterslides, dodgem cars and more.
Adelaide Shores is ideal for families. The 153 hectare reserve is close to shops, restaurants and transport and has great recreation facilities. This holiday spot has every amenity imaginable for the perfect seaside retreat.
Visit the seaside village of Semaphore, where kids love the miniature steam train, sideshows, waterslide, mini golf, and Australia's oldest carousel. There's a long boulevard of antique shops, cafes, bakeries and pubs.
Or visit Port Adelaide and explore its old buildings and museums. Take a guided tour or a Dolphin Expedition Research Tour.
Kangaroo Island
Emu Bay is a beautiful, four-kilometre long, safe beach with vehicle access onto the hard sand. Penneshaw beach is clean, offers safe conditions for swimming and spectacular views across Backstairs Passage to the mainland. The beach area in front of the Ozone Hotel is a popular family picnic spot with elevated grass banks, while Little Brownlow Beach, in front of the Yacht Club, is also a pleasant area providing shallow swimming and wading.
Yorke Peninsula
Find calm swimming beaches for families to enjoy, with sheltered bays to be found at Marion Bay, Stansbury, Port Vincent, Point Turton, Black Point and Coobowie. Water sports include surfing, wind surfing, kite surfing, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, beach fishing and sailing.
Fleurieu Peninsula
The coastal towns of Victor Harbor and Goolwa are some of South Australia's most popular seaside holiday destinations. Best beaches include Goolwa, Encounter Bay, Horseshoe Bay and Normanville. Ride the Cockle Train between Goolwa and Middleton.
Limestone Coast
Enjoy the sunshine along the coast or head inland for amazing heritage, nature and wine experiences. Best beaches include Long Beach at Robe, Beachport, Kingston, Cape Jaffa and Port MacDonnell beaches and Brown Bay.
Eyre Peninsula
There's plenty of beaches to choose from here, with 2000 kilometres of coastline. Highlights include include Cowell, Port Gibbon, Lucky Bay in front of the shacks, Arno Bay, Tumby Bay foreshore, Port Lincoln - town beach and enclosed swimming pool, Coffin Bay, Elliston - Waterloo Bay, Streaky Bay (jetty swimming pool and Doctors beach in front of foreshore caravan park, Perlubie), Ceduna ( Davenport Creek, Shelly Beach, Denial Bay) Smoky Bay and Fowlers Bay.
