South Coast turns on the charm

By Michael Turtle
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:29am, first published June 27 2020 - 9:30am
You can take a tour in Batemans Bay to taste fresh oysters from a kayak.
You can take a tour in Batemans Bay to taste fresh oysters from a kayak.

Looking up at the sun setting behind the saddle of the imposing mountain above us, Indigenous elder Iris White turns to me and begins the story of how everything here on the NSW South Coast began from this peak. Captain Cook named it Mount Dromedary as he sailed past in 1770 because it reminded him of a camel's hump. But to Aboriginal people, who have called it Gulaga for thousands of years, it resembles a pregnant woman lying down... and is the foundation of their spirituality.

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