Step back in time and take a walk around our local towns.
Discover the history of our old buildings through words, photos and oral histories.
Discover what life was like here in times past and the history of our old buildings, through words, photos and oral histories. Explore our beautiful and inspirational landscape through the eyes of artists Charmian Clift and Lloyd Rees, or experience Kiama's World War One history.
You can view and listen to our tours at home https://kiama.stqry.app/ on your computer, or download the Kiama Library Walking Tours app to your phone and choose from five free walking tours to enjoy while walking around town:
My place: a digital tour of Kiama
This self-guided walking tour introduces you to life in Kiama in earlier times, through the eyes and ears of past and present residents.
Kiama's First World War
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.
The History of Gerringong Library
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.
Remembering Charmian Clift
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.
Lloyd Rees: the man, the landscape and his art
Introducing locations in Gerringong and surrounds where celebrated landscape artist Lloyd Rees created his significant South Coast works.
