Bambara Trail – Fishery

Summary: A small Aboriginal rock engraving site near the Bambara Trail, which includes a stingray and a fish

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Fish, Stingray
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1999
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Referred to as the Bambara Fishery, this Aboriginal engraving site near the Bambara Trail has at least two marine creatures. What seems to be a stingray has weathered grooves.

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Near the ray is a small fish.

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