Summer means stone fruit, and the best stones are pips, cherry pips! At their peak for just a few weeks a year, sweet and sour cherries are grown in abundance on the Fleurieu Peninsula. On a sunny summer's day, what better healthy outdoor activity than fruit picking. Down the road from Willunga toward Victor Harbour is the welcoming beacon of a pair of giant cherries. Collect your bucket from cheerful staff and pay the small entrance fee, then you are admitted into the hallowed cherry tree enclosure. That's right, enclosure. To keep the cherries from escaping - via hungry birds & critters, the trees are grown inside a giant netted structure. The trees have an interesting growth habit. From low, pruned central trunks come long vertical branches which are incredibly bendy and direct from which grow those classic twin stalks & luscious cherries. 20 varieties are grown, with different ripening times from November to January. Available to pick are both sweet and sour cherries, the sweet perfect for snacking and sour morello's great for pickling. We opt for sweet. The first thing you notice is that they are absolute whoppers. Easily the largest cherries I have had the pleasure of tasting. Backing up their size, they are crisp, juicy and sweet. Even before we are invited by the staff to taste-test one fresh off the tree, we already have! It is hard to resist a freshly picked cherry the size of a small plum. After filling a bucket, all that is left to do is take our bulging containers for weighing. It's hard to believe that the best cherries I have ever tasted are only $11 a kilo. If you are in the Fleurieu in summer, put cherry picking on your food trail. Just remember to check the website first, as cherry picking is so popular that it is only open on select days. read more

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I didn't do the u-pick thing, but we stopped here on the way back from Victor Harbour just to get the cherry ice cream we had heard about. And it was worth it! They blend the cherries into the ice cream while you wait. Fantastic. Also, incredibly nice people, and two very happy dogs. I watched a little girl from another family playing fetch with one of the dogs and I swear I have never seen two happier creatures in my entire life. read more

I went there for the first time, tried the strawberry ice cream. It was great! Wish I could buy a container to keep in my freezer. Picking strawberry is $9 per person, I didn't have the time to do that instead we bought it from the ice cream shop. They sale it fresh of the trees. There is also a seating area where you can hang out and enjoy the farm view and grab as much as fresh air before coming back to the city. I am already looking forward to my next visit. read more

I thought I would support the local business, so we went to Fleurieu Cherries to buy some cherries. Cherry picking was allowed, so we decided to take our 2 grandchildren. We bought $108 worth of cherries- 5 Kilos of supposedly their top quality cherries and about 3 Kilos of so called 'seconds'. The seconds had a number of rotten cherries and most of them were very small. I should have bought the ones from the supermarket for the same price! As for their top quality cherries, there were many small cherries and 'seconds' in a box of cherries! Check for them at the bottom of the box. Needlessto say I have regretted going to Fleurieu cherries. Very disappointing! I will stick to going up to the Adelaide Hills. read more

Great location, staff, wine and food! Rough housing with the dogs was a highlight. Highly recommended