Adelaide's readily accessible city beaches are beautiful.

We were recommended, more than once, to see the beaches further south on the western coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Travelling south from Christies Beach, then Port Noarlunga and the mouth of the Onkaparinga River, on along a scenic coastal drive down as far as Aldinga we saw impressive stretches of white sands, long tides, high cliffs and rolling sand dunes.