Leochares Peak Grinding Grooves
Twelve axe grinding grooves (some are silted over) on a small rock platform to the west of Mount Leochares.
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Twelve axe grinding grooves (some are silted over) on a small rock platform to the west of Mount Leochares.
A line of three fish and several other very weathered Aboriginal engravings to the west of Mount Leochares.
A sloping rock platform to the south of Leochares Peak which has an Aboriginal engraving of a koala (deity) and kangaroo.
A large, tesselated rock platform below Leochares Peak which has an Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo.
An Aboriginal rock engraving of a (possibly dead) emu along the bed of a creek near Kariong.
An Aboriginal rock art site in Kariong which has contact motifs (two sailing ships) and a single mundoe.
A loop bushwalk to Big Jims Point in Popran National Park, which offers some nice views over the Hawkesbury River. The walk is mostly on firetrails, but you can add a more challenging side-trip to the Berowra Trig.
An Aboriginal rock art shelter with charcoal and red ochre figures in a shallow shelter near Big Jims Point.
Berowra Trig (established in 1882) is at the end of a long ridge above Bar Point. From the trig point there are expansive views of the Hawkesbury River, Bar Island and Milson Passage.
The Kariong trig station on top of Mount Kariong was established in 1881. It was one of the baseline trig stations in the first Trigonometric Survey of the country.