Australia Northern Beaches NSW Sydney - North
Wheeler Creek Emu Hunt
Two shields and some indeterminate figures at an Aboriginal engraving site on a tesselated pavement within Red Hill Reserve.
Two shields and some indeterminate figures at an Aboriginal engraving site on a tesselated pavement within Red Hill Reserve.
Aboriginal engraving of a fish and mundoe (both very faint) on a rock platform near the Red Hill Main Track (Red Hill Reserve)
A deeply-carved Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo near the Red Hill Main Trail (Red Hill Reserve)
There’s no evidence of the Wheeler Heights trig station. It’s easy to reach, but there are multiple (unofficial) signs indicating it’s on private land.
Cromer Heights trig station in Red Hill Reserve offers sweeping views over the bushland and to the ocean in the distance.
A partly off-track bushwalk through the southern section of the Red Hill Reserve from Beacon Hill. The loop walk explores some rock formations and Aboriginal engraving sites.
The Wheeler Heights Aboriginal Site is large site documented by W.D. Campbell in 1899, who described it as “one of the finest groups the Writer has come across”. The scenes include two men fighting and a successful kangaroo hunt.
A short loop in the Red Hill Reserve
using both the Cromer North Trail (Red Hill Main Trail) and Cromer Trail. The bushwalk explores two trig stations and the Wheeler Heights Aboriginal engraving site.