Walking tours

This self-guided walking tour introduces you to life in Kiama in earlier times, through the eyes and ears of past and present residents.

Walk the streets of Kiama and discover what life was like here during the First World War.

Take the 2.3 kilometre tour at your leisure, stopping along the way to learn about a soldier’s story and sites that are important to Kiama’s First World War history.

The tour has 15 stops, beginning at Kiama Library, then circling around the WWI recruitment camps at the Showground, continuing along the Coastal Walk, following the Waratah March down Terralong Street and past the Memorial Arch, and concluding at Black Beach.

Take a walk around Gerringong and discover the story of our 150-year-old Library - one of the oldest public libraries in Australia!

See how the town has changed over the past century or more.

A tour to the many places in Kiama that influenced Charmian Clift, one of Kiama's, and indeed Australia's, most famous writers.

Born in Kiama in 1923, Charmian went on to become a prize-winning writer, literary collaborator with husband George Johnston, and one of the most influential newspaper columnists in Australia in the 1960s.

Our app guides you to 12 locations that influenced her writings, and includes audio readings from Charmian's works that are related to each stop.

Introducing locations in Gerringong and surrounds where celebrated landscape artist Lloyd Rees created his significant South Coast works.