RAA

You may be one of those individuals who like to get behind the wheel of a car and drive for days on tour of whatever region it is you are exploring; goodness knows that is one of the best ways to discover Australia. South Australia has so many fascinating places to tour through and many of these drive yourself tours are reachable over a weekend. There are not as many camping sites available in SA as there are on the East coast of Australia, but there are enough.
You will want to have up to date maps, to begin with, and this is one place to get the correct ones. You may want to book a motel or get some caravan park details, again — the RAA is one of the primary places for this sort of information. Possibly you want to know where there are RAA approved mechanics along your route, again, this is the shop for that stop.
Other travel agency services are available here, but it’s the local knowledge feature and the anecdotes some of the staff will share with you that really count.
Just for the record the RAA stands for the Royal Automobile Association, and it is a South Australian phenomenon due to our original status here as a «settlers colony» rather than a «penal colony»; the other way of looking at it is we are the royalist snobs… but that’s a joke. There is an intra state agreement with the road associations elsewhere in the country that your membership there is covered here by the RAA and vice-​versa. That means you are automatically covered when you cross the boarder for roadside assistance etc.