Historians suggest that Ourimbah takes its name from the indigenous tribes who lived in this fertile, densely forested region. They argue that Ourimbah is a variation of the word ‘oorinbah’, which refers to the bora ring or ceremonial grounds in which initiation ceremonies were carried out by local tribes. Still, it took some time for the name Ourimbah to be formalised. The European settlers who’d carved out a small community in the 1800s referred to the locality as Blue Gum Flats. Decades passed,...