Kiama no-blow-hole?

Preface: Kiama is a city in the Illawarra region of NSW. It's about 2 hours drive towards south of Sydney, and about 30 minutes south of Wollongong. It's supposedly famous for one big one small blowhole near to each other.

Kiama visitor guide 2008 describes it as the famous blow-hole, whilst the Grand Pacific Drive booklet describes it as "the infamous Kiama Blowhole, discovered by George Bass on 6 December 1797."

This is a curious pursuit, how can it be both famous and infamous in two official tourism guides? The latter guide provides a hint: "Most spectacular when the seas run from the south east." Hmmm... That probably means "most probably not spectacular when the seas run from any other direction other than south east." That makes it probably 7/8 times not spectacular.

And this is why it's so infamous -> nothing blow out of it and it looks like an upside-down a**-hole!!!



In sharp contrast to a web guide:
http://www.kiama.com.au/attractions/blowhole2.htm

That means we exhausted 1 chance out of 8, and if we visited 7 more times. We will have a unit probability seeing the blowhole in action!

btw, we are not the only unlucky one, there is a tour group coming all the way from Korea to visit this infamous blow-hole, wondering what is so *famous* with the no-blow-hole inaction (not in action).



Luckily, these lovely creatures served as a bonus for the trip. The anglers are cleaning their fish and throwing the fishy innards, while the pelicans are busy catching their food. The pelican is the local birds with a plague set for it near the visitor center. Flipping through the local newspaper, a news talk about banning the plastic bag for this town, this really show the privilege of the iconic pelican here. So don't be surprised that you can't find a plastic bag in this town in the near future.