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Some community members may think of the reserve as Hopetoun Reserve and Bulli Lookout. The most northern part of the reserve is Sublime Point Lookout. Sublime Point includes the following:.

Wollongong City Council would like to show their respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Dharawal Country, Elders past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Here are some examples:. Create a custom map : Click here to create a custom map including ' Bulli Pass '. Set Bulli Pass as my home location. Share your Australia - add a picture. The view stretches from Kiama and Saddleback Mountain on the horizon to the south, through Lake Illawarra, Port Kembla and Wollongong and up the coast to the villages huddled below the escarpment. Upon first sighting this remarkable vista in Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote: "On our arrival at the summit of the mountain, we were gratified with a very grand magnificent bird's eye view of the ocean, the 5 Islands, and of the greater part of the low country of Illawarra The whole face of the mountain is clothed with the largest and finest forest trees I have ever seen in the colony.

On October 19, a ceremony was held here to officially name the new coast road from Sydney to Melbourne the Princes Highway, after the then Prince of Wales. Today there is a kiosk, toilets, picnic and barbecue facilities and two walking tracks at the southern edge of the clearing which lead down the escarpment or back to Bulli Pass Scenic Reserve. They roamed across the narrow coastal plain, ate fish and crustaceans they caught in the rock pools and lived an idyllic life beside the sea.

Cook attempted to land in the Illawarra but was forced to return to his ship because of the heavy surf that was running at the time. Of the area around Bulli, Joseph Banks, the ship's botanist, was to write: "The country today again made in slopes to the sea The trees were not very large and stood separate from each other without the least underwood; among them we could discern many cabbage trees but nothing else which we could call by any name.

In the course of the night many fires were seen. The boat overturned at Towradgi just south of Bulli and it was here that Bass and Flinders made contact with the local Aborigines.

The vessel had been beached on the Furneaux Islands in Bass Strait. A boat was launched with seventeen of the crew but it was wrecked at Point Hicks. The survivors started walking north to Port Jackson but only three survived. He set out in Governor Hunter's whaleboat and discovered coal at what is now known as Coalcliff. The journey lasted only eight days. They dragged the logs to the beaches and shipped them to Sydney.

They were working the forests around Bulli by It was in that Charles Throsby opened up the Illawarra to settlement when he created a track down Bulli mountain in looking for pasture for his cattle. In O'Brien sold his land to Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott who was enterprising and, during the next decade, purchased more land, bred and raced race horses, established a brickworks, cut a proper track down from Bulli Tops and established the first coal mine in the area.