Were you aware that a car once fell through a gap in the railing into the Kiama Blowhole chasm?
The enthusiasm of two young visitors to see the coloured illumination of the Blowhole almost caused their death in the early hours of Monday morning. They were Barry Martin, 20, and Ray Cumberland, 19, both of Bungendore, who crashed and rolled 40 feet down the crater surrounding the Blowhole and completely wrecked Martin’s car.
The car came to rest halfway down the side of the crater after running over the edge through a gap in the safety fence.
The wrecked car remained perched at a precarious angle until it was removed from the crater on Monday afternoon. Had the vehicle rolled over once more it would almost certainly have ended up in the aperture through which the ocean booms.

[From the Kiama Independent 3 October 1956]