Ballad of the Robertson Basin

On Kiama Blow hole island

Sea spume and hear ocean’s sound

The Wodi Wodi’s sacred place and

Where their dreaming is found

First in came the getters of timber

Red cedar was cleared by the best

They shipped it north to Sy-dn-ey

Through hard graft and luck no less

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Community leaders and traders

A safe harbour Kiama needs

Complete the Robertson Basin

Our commerce and trade will succeed

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

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Transport and trade was not easy

Before our safe harbour was made

Many a ship ran aground there

Produce and commerce delayed

Storm Bay and Black beach formed an isthmus

Ebb tide a treacherous drain

They dug the rock from our harbour 

and joined up the island again

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Long years of hard work and calamity

Before the project was done

Guaranteed the success of Kiama

Our beautiful sea side town

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