The first Europeans to explore the Tweed region were stuck by its remarkable landscape. In 1770 James Cook passed by the Tweed Coast and named Mount Warning. The largest extinct volcanic shield in the southern hemisphere, it’s also the first peak to receive morning sun in the country. The local Bundjalung people poetically referred to it as ‘Wollumbin’: the cloud catcher. As colonial New South Wales took shape, more intensive investigation of the region occurred. In 1823 John Oxley navigated his...