The best of Southcoast NSW: iconic wonders, world-famous blowholes, Kiama Coast Walk, and award-winning accommodation, restaurants, and more.

Kiama is a beautiful seaside town on the NSW South Coast, best known for its beaches, blowholes, volcanic rock formations and scenic stretches of coastal walks. It’s a favourite with families looking for a laidback holiday spot and surfers chasing world-class waves.

Kiama: a township emerges. Picturesque Kiama is known for the rolling green hills and dairy farms. Before settlement the area was covered in dense vegetation with the famed cedar as well as cabbage tree palms, sassafras, creepers and vines. The Kiama town site was reserved in 1826 and the town plan was approved by the Governor in 1839.

Well beyond the limits of holiday nostalgia, this area is rich in history with clues to its past just waiting to be explored. Traditional stories speak of the Dharawal people who first came to the Illawarra, bringing with them the cabbage tree palm (still seen throughout the Kiama area).

Located on the NSW South Coast, Kiama offers much more than a famous blowhole. From hiking in rainforest to ziplining through treetops, discover the top things to do.

Kiama offers the perfect mix to suit every kind of getaway, from social gatherings and family adventures to chilled hideaway or romantic rendezvous. Start your journey at Blowhole Point, the ideal place to get your bearings and the best place to enjoy 360 degree views.

People flock to Kiama to witness the force of nature that is the town’s famed blowhole, but the region as a whole is equally awe-inspiring. Get lost in the silent beauty of rainforest, watch wondrous waterfalls, surf the region’s great breaks, amble stunning coastal walks, soar above the tree-tops, mosey through a market and get to know the ...

Kiama's maritime history, historic buildings and impressive natural landscape including blowholes, make it a unique town on the east coast. This plaque is 1 of many found around the district. The plaques describe the history of their locations.

Popular day tripper beach town on the South Coast famed for its blowhole. Kiama is a well-known and popular coastal resort town known, around Australia, for the famous Kiama Blowhole, a cavern-like fissure in the volcanic rocks which produces dramatic 'blows' of water when the winds and waves are in the right direction.

Of the coastal resorts south of Sydney, Kiama (located 90 minutes south of Sydney) is probably the most attractive. A small resort and fishing town, Kiamais famous for its star attraction, the Blowhole.