8 March we visited relatives at Wollongong and followed this up with breakfast at "Diggies" Restaurant at the Wollongong Surf Club. There were hundreds of people on the beach, mostly young women doing exercises. Other people were riding bikes or taking dogs and babies for walks.
Points south beckoned after breakfast and we headed slowly south. We spent some considerable time trying to find a panoramic view of the Port Kembla Steel Mill and Bluescope Steel's facilities. We eventually found one from Hill 60 at the southern end of Port Kembla. The trouble is, it is such a huge site and photographing it was darn near impossible and pesky trees kept blocking the views.
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| 090316 Some of Bluescope Steel at Port Kembla |
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| 090316 Port Kembla Steel Mill with Outer Harbour on RHS |
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| 090316 Port Kembla Steel Mill - maybe coking ovens |
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| 090316 Port Kembla Steel Mill up close |
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| 090316 Port Kembla Steel Mill - middle distance |
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| 090316 Port Kembla Steel Mill - far distance |
Port Kembla done, we headed south again, admiring some of the beaches from a distance. We called in at Kiama but its blowhole was not blowing. It was a beautiful day however, and the rock pool was busy with swimmers and lazy waves were rolling up onto the beaches.
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| 090316 Small headland at Kiama |
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| 090316 Island off Kiama |
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| 090613 Entrance to Kiama's Blowhole |
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| 090316 Kiama's Blowhole which wouldn't blow |
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| 090316 Swimming Pool at Kiama |
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| 090316 Boat Harbour at Kiama |
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| 090316 Beach at Gerrigong, one of the many beaches on the way |
Nowra was a lazy 35km away so we moseyed on down there via the Seven Mile Beach National Park. In all we only did 137km today but that was sufficient to justify an overnight stop at Nowra on the Shoalhaven River.
Beautiful coastline!
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