Today, features at Wirrina cove include marina named Marina St. Vincent, the New Terry Hotel & Golf Resort, a variety of camping and other holiday accommodation at the Wirrina Cove Holiday Park other accommodation options.

There is a significant site associated with the Kaurna Dreaming of the creator ancestor Tjilbruke, where his tears are said to have created a freshwater spring there.

This is the sixth spring on the Tjilbruke Dreaming Trail, and there is a commemorative plaque at the entrance forecourt to Wirrina Cove Resort.

The original developers of the resort, Holiday Village Co-operative Ltd, adopted the name in 1972, probably extracting it from H.M. Cooper’s Australian Aboriginal Words and Their Meanings (1949).

Cooper lists it as meaning "Somewhere to go”, and the word is thought to originate in an interstate language group, possibly from the Gwydir and Barwon Rivers of New South Wales.

[13] The Auckland-based hotel chain VR Group bought the resort, and spent over A$1.5 million on upgrading most of the 87 rooms, the tennis courts, mini-golf course and gym, ready to re-open in April 2014.

[16] It was intended to support regional tourism opportunities, including sunset cruises and day trips across Backstairs Passage to Kangaroo Island.