Hawthorn Album: kiama to Minnamurra river walk via BomBO

Kiama harbour

You walk up a hill and away from the coast and through an uninspiring urban area, then Walk down the hill under the railway line and on to the beach

BOMBO beach is bounded on one side by the freeway and railway at the kiama end of the beach there are rocks and at the other end of the beach is a carpark . People were surfing at the end of the beach, under the watchful eye of the life savers. From the beach you would never guess that you were a hundred meters from a busy freeway.

Bombo headland quarry

At the end of Bombo beach you walk up on to the headland and through a carpark then a mixture of dusty roads and scrub until you arrive at the old quarry. The quarry according to the broacher is famous for its Basalt columns which separate the quarry from the sea. On the other side of the quarry are cliffs and there was also two resident ducks in a puddle.

bombo headland waste water treatment plant

after leaving the quarry I start to smell something unpleasant I then find a sealed road a green security fence and little later a sign that reads “Bombo headland waste water treatment plant” and the front gates. I circumnavigate the plant until I rich the train line. At this point I am becoming seriously disappointed with this walk

cathedral rock

not impressed more rocks no trees and a road .

Kiama Heights

Beach thin strip of trees and then urban blight

Minnamurra river pretty but surrounded by further urban blight and a railway station where I catch the train back to kiama