The week before, I had been on a walk wth Bob looking for Aboriginal heritage sites in the Blue Mountains. On that trip, we had started with a lot of hope, but had met no success. It was now time to have another look for the same site – an art cave – but from a different start point.
Where we looked this time, was a fair way from the previous week’s location, and this time we did not use a possible grid reference, but instead followed my choice for likely location based on a few clews we had from an earlier party to visit it. I was quietly confident that I had decode the clues and now knew the location. it all seemed to fit. But its different out in the bush than in front of the computer looking at maps and air photos. Like the week before, it was another very hot day, and it was quite enervating climbing out of gorges and walking along scrubby ridges. And, like the week before we had no success.
We did find a small but nice swimming hole, and we did find an occupation cave – but one that looks more like a bushwalkers or hermits cave. Not an Aboriginal art cave.
