Cycle along the 37km long rail trail. It starts in Marino Rocks and ends in Willunga. The last 8km section between McLaren Vale and Willunga is the Shiraz Trail and passes many cellar doors.
A five-level Rubik's Cube plopped atop a hill, the d'Arenberg Cube is McLaren Vale's signature building, hosting a tasting room and the bizarre Alternate Realities Museum. The highlight here is the Salvador Dali exhibition scheduled to run until 2028 ($10 extra), featuring 24 works by the Surrealist maestro. D'Arrys restaurant, next door, is also well regarded.
A reasonably new national park with several mountain bike trails.
This beach has both your classic expanse of sand as well as the remnants of a jetty and crumbling cliff face dotted with manmade caves once used to store boats. Plenty of interesting bits and bobs like shark eggs to be found in the rock pools at low tide. The Star of Greece clipper was wrecked nearby in 1888 and the wreck is easily accessible to scuba divers.