Today our plans were for Kiama and Cathedral Rocks. We were halfway through our trip along the south coast and chose Kiama for an overnight stop as Kiama and Bombo are only a few minutes apart. So, after a night at a B & B in Kiama, we headed down to Cathedral Rocks, Bombo, to set up at the ungodly hour of 5.30.  With excellent hindsight, we had scouted the location the day before to find it in the dark, so getting there and setting up was problem-free.  Cathedral Rocks are 10m high basalt columns, sea stacks, and a 20m high cliff that forms a 1km headland.

It was a gorgeous sunrise, and we were working on getting the sun – and slow exposures on the rocks.  I had an ND1000 on and couldn’t work out why it was coming out so dark until I realised I still had the CPL on from the day before.  Once I took that off and just used the ND, things started to come together.

We stayed there till about 8 am with the sun fully up… it was just a fabulous place.  I would have liked to go to the Bombo Quarry or Boneyard after that, but we couldn’t find them the day before, so we just settled for the entire shoot at Cathedral Rocks.  Which wasn’t a bad thing 🙂

Bombo is a must-do place for anyone who loves landscape photography… for me, it’s also a ‘must go back. However, I definitely still want to get the Boneyard and the Quarry.  

Cathedral Rocks is located off Cliff Drive, take the Kiama Downs to turn off from the Princess Highway, and cross under the railway bridge at Bombo Beach.