Each year in April, in one of South Australia's most celebrated wine regions,  it is the time of the year when Coonawarra vintage (grape harvest), is celebrated. The Annual Coonawarra After Dark festival involves Coonawarra wineries opening their doors to visitors at the peak of the vintage. It is your chance to take a tour of a working winery and experience the thrills, aromas, excitem… [more]

A Coonawarra wine tour has much to offer from the celebrated extensive brand wineries through to smaller family boutique wineries. Each winery has distinguishing characteristics that are displayed in their distinct wine styles, production techniques and product presentation. By creating this unique identity the wineries are able to deliver premium wines for everyone to enjoy. With its rich … [more]

Petticoat Lane is in the oldest residential street of Penola. Now a State listed heritage area, it's one of the original attractions built many years before the vineyards were planted in Coonawarra. The Penola National Trust has restored all cottages with some being heritage listed. The lane’s character is enhanced by red gum kerbing, rose plantings, a herb garden and a lavender farm feat… [more]

  Spring at Camawald is heralded by yellow – in the many wattles putting on a cheerful show each August and September and by the thousands of daffodils flowering throughout the garden. Bulbs come into their own; jonquils, iris, liliums, freesias, ranunculi, bluebells, ixias and the delightful little tritelias, or star flowers, which carpet the ground.   Ornamental flowering tree… [more]

Located in the picturesque Limestone Coast tourism region, adjacent to the Victorian border, the Naracoorte Caves in the south east of South Australia (Australia) is one of the popular and highly-visited tourist sites. The Naracoorte Caves Conservation Park is 12 kilometres southeast of Naracoorte and just 30km from Camawald Cottage in Coonawarra.. The Naracoorte Caves is one of the histo… [more]

Located between Adelaide and Melbourne, in the Limestone Coast region of South East South Australia, and just 21 kilometres south of Naracoorte, is the internationally-recognised Bool Lagoon Game Reserve, one of the largest and most diverse freshwater systems in Southern Australia. The reserve is home to a wide range of wetland wildlife and provides essential drought refuge for many rare and e… [more]

When John and I bought our property in 1976 the whole area was open farming country with no vineyards or buildings in sight, the only vegetation being giant red gums. The landscape has certainly changed! We immediately began planting trees, both as shelter for sheep and cattle as well as ornamental planting for the home and garden we intended to create. We built our home in 1980 by which time w… [more]