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The 100 | By the water
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BEACHES, WINE AND GOOD TIMES
The Fleurieu Peninsula, Adelaide’s weekend playground, is an epicurean idyll. The
sweeping hills of its wine regions (McLaren Vale is an ideal place to explore if you like
your wines big, bold and red) just about roll into the ocean, where a dramatic shoreline
gives way to soft, sandy and sometimes deserted beaches, like Port Willunga, pictured.
You can drop anchor here for a couple of nights in a range of unique accommodation.
Hotel California Road is a boutique offering built out of shipping containers and set in
the vineyards of McLaren Vale’s Inkwell Wines; it’s a four-minute drive to Maslin Beach,
which was designated Australia’s first official nude beach in 1975. Further along the
peninsula, Southern Ocean Retreats’ Ridgetop Retreat is ensconced in a stringybark
forest and not far from the beautiful Second Valley Beach.