On the 20th of January my son Rob climbed Gulaga. This granitic prominence has long been a sacred mountain for the Yuin people of southern New South Wales. When sailing passed Gulaga in the 18th century British explorer, James Cook, assigned his own name to this hump-shaped landform. He called it ‘Mount Dromedary’.

Rob began his climb at 5:30 AM. It was a 5-hour return trip.

He hadn’t done the climb since his first visit 35 years ago. Back then, in 1989, we climbed it along with my daughter Alexandra.

Rob says that his most prominent memory was tall tree ferns growing amongst moss covered standing granite boulders. He also remembers a good view of the coast from the summit of Gulaga.

Today we edited his iPhone shots together to produce this short video of his climb.

Gulaga National Park

Gulaga is now within the Gulaga National Park, established in January 2001 and covering an area of 4673ha.

In May 2006 the park was ceded back to its traditional Aboriginal owners in an agreement signed by the NSW Environment Minister and the Yuin People.

Click to access gulaga-national-park-map.pdf

Department of Planning and Environment 

This link will allow users access to a map that can be enriched with your own data to create new maps and map layers.

ArcGIS Enterprise – My Map (nsw.gov.au)

Once the map opens add the following address in the search bar.

Gulaga National Park, A1, Dignams Creek, Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, 2546, AUS