South Australia's capital is a city by the sea. Adelaide boasts 30 kilometres of sandy beaches, some only a 15 minute drive from the city centre.

You'll find almost every kind of break on the South Australian Coast, and there are surf spots all the way to the Victorian border.

A well-kept surfing secret is Kangaroo Island. The quality and quantity of uncrowded surf-breaks around the Island are well known amongst locals with breaks such as Stokes Bay, Vivonne Bay and Pennington Bay very suitable for beginners. The same breaks often produce great surfing conditions for advanced surfers as well. 

South Australia is renowned for it's superb reef breaks, and with so many beaches to choose from you can almost be guaranteed your own beach, for a few hours at least. As far as water temperature is concerned, this is the Southern Ocean, so you can expect the water to be cold - a thick full length wetsuit (steamer) is recommended.

The waters of the South Australian surfing beaches are great for spotting seals and dolphins and if you want a real South Australian surfing adventure head across to Point Sinclair on the Eyre Peninsula. The left-hand surfing breaks of Castles and Cactus and the right-hand break of Caves are definitely not for beginners but these surf breaks are worth seeing if only for the adrenalin rush you'll get from the beach. There's also a really funky campsite nearby.