Summary: A shark, two eels and large fish (originally thought to be a koala) on a rock platform in a valley above The Basin

Recorded as the “Koala Engraving” site, this Aboriginal engraving site between the Bairne Track and The Basin doesn’t actually include a koala… Accessed via a fairly strenuous “bush bash”, the small rock platform above a small creek contains a few figures. The most obvious motif is a shark (or large fish), near the top of the sloping rock platform.

AWAT6970 LR Basin Koala Engraving

Inside the shark’s body are what appear to be three boomerangs.

AWAT6979 LR Basin Koala Engraving

To the left of the shark are a pair of eels, engraved “nose to nose”. One of them is incomplete.

To the right of the shark and and on a fairly steep part of the rock platform is what appears to be another fish. This engraving was orginally as potentially being a koala, as it’s head is a unusually-shaped for a fish.

AWAT6986 LR Basin Koala Engraving

Nearby is what appears to be a single axe grinding groove.

AWAT6960 LR Basin Koala Engraving
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