By car or bus, the pictured location is circa 45 kilometres south of Adelaide’s CBD.
If you avoid rush hours, a car trip from the heart of Adelaide to Aldinga Beach can take just 45 minutes.
Aldinga Beach is definitely not “just yet more of Adelaide’s dispiriting, seemingly never-ending sprawl”; it has well-protected natural bushland, a large number of resident ‘roos, reefs onto which one can walk, at low tide…and glorious beaches.
The featured image was taken a little more than 40 minutes before sunset on 20 January, 2023.
Our feet were standing on Silver Sands – the southernmost of Aldinga Beach’s several kilometres worth of delicious beaches; they remain continuous through to Sellicks Beach, at the foot of Sellicks Hill. (Sellicks’ summit is just to the left of my photos’ frames)
All other photos were taken on 20 December, 2018.
Effectively, this town of circa 11,000 “permanently”-resident humans – plus a great many more visitors on any sunny summer day – is a suburb of Adelaide.
Nonetheless, Aldinga Beach provides a “great escape” from Adelaide.
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