South Australia (Southeast Region)
Kingston
Kingston is in lobster country, as you quickly realise on entering the town when you are met by a giant welcoming lobster. The town was settled in the early 1850s and named after Sir George Strickland Kingston, an early deputy surveyor general and father of premier Charles Cameron Kingston.
The coast around Kingston has plenty of scenic drives, especially on the way to Cape Jaffa and also towards the Granites, a series of rock outcrops north of the town and also at Jip Jip Conservation Park, fifty kilometres north.

There are plenty of safe swimming spots around Kingston, including Wyomi and Pinks beaches and Lacepede Bay.

Attractions
  • ANALEMMATIC SUNDIAL In Apex Park, this sundial features a range of granite-carved fish which make up the clock. The centre piece is a sundial and the time can be established by standing on the analemma and the shadow so cast tells the time.
  • BIG LOBSTER Seventeen-metre high Lany the Lobster contains displays of the district's products - timber, dairy products, wine and rock lobster.
  • CAPEJAFFA LIGHTHOUSE This lighthouse began life on Margaret Brock Reef in the 1860s and stayed there for a century. In the 1970s an automatic light rendered it redundant and it was dismantled and re-erected at Kingston. The National Trust manages the lighthouse.