Balad of the Robertson Basin

On Kiama Blow hole island

Sea spume and hear ocean’s sound

Sacred to the Wodi Wodi

Where their dreaming is always found

Community leaders and traders

A safe harbour Kiama needs

Enclose the Robertson Basin 

Our commerce and trade it will feed

First in came the timber getters

Cleared the red cedar and forest

They sailed it north to Sydney town

Through hard graft and luck no less

Then started up the dairies

Exported their stock and their cheese

Transport by ship was a gamble

With many dilemmas at sea

Next they quarried blue metal

A lucrative market was found

It paved Sydney’s roads and highways

And made all the railroads sound

Transport and trade was not easy

before our safe harbour was made

Many a ship ran aground here

Produce and commerce delayed

Storm Bay and Black beach formed an isthmus

On ebb tide a formidable drain

Engineers dug rock from our harbour 

and joined up the island again

Five years of hard work and calamity

Before the project was done

Guaranteed the success of Kiama

Our beautiful sea side town