Bob was keen on a bushwalk and so was I, but the weather forecast was not great so we decided to do a walk in Ku-Ring-Gai National Park. Bob had researched some Aboriginal Art sites – and we decided to visit a number of these. It turned out to be a very interesting walk, and we only had a little bit of rain during the day.
During our walk, we visited number of very good art sites – some were caves and some were rock engravings.
There were also quite a few wild flowers out.
To find the rock engravings, we looked at a lot of rock platforms. Some of the engravings were very clear (probably been retouched) and others were very subtle.
The site below was a major site with many engravings.
Another large rock platform nearby only had one engravings – this one of a fish –
And another rock platform had this coolamon –
This appears to be shield –
This cave was very good with a lot of hand stencils and a boomerang –
There were also some shells –
This next cave had a number of faint hand stencils.
Nearby was a great lookout.
The third cave had some very faint stencils –
And we also found some shells –
Then we checked out this site for engravings –
Its hard to see in the photo, but there was a huge whale engraving.
Then some rock tessellations –
Another site with some great engravings –
We then traversed a hill.
This could be a mundoe (footprint engraving) –
And another art cave. This had about 8 very faint hand stencils.
This creekbed had some sharpening grooves –
And we found this strange engraving –
This looks like another mundoe –
And a series of mundoes here –
This last photo shows a very faint engraving. Perhaps snake or eel?
On our walk, we found a lot of art in a relatively small area. We intend to return and look for more nearby.