Bala Range Big Eel

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a large eel (or rainbow serpent) and several bird tracks on a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 8
  • Motif/s: Bird, Eel
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Ian Sim, Report to AIAS on engravings in Sydney district; MacDonald River Site 9

Along a ridge off the Bala Range Trail is a rock platform with a large eel; it was described by Ian Sim as a rainbow serpent.

BoreeTrack Eel Stitched LR Bala Range Big Eel

The eel is fairly weathered, and the very bottom partly covered by encroaching vegetation

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On the same platform there are several birds tracks and a line or groove.

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