Big Jims Point Fish Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter with charcoal and red ochre figures in a shallow shelter near Big Jims Point.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2020
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov

A shelter located in a remote gully near Big Jims Point contains charcoal and red ochre Aboriginal rock art. The most distinct figures are two infilled fish and a curved boomerang which may be a boomerang.

IMG 1583 LR Big Jims Point Fish Shelter

Overlapping these charcoal figures are additional motifs in red ochre.

IMG 1583 LR yre Big Jims Point Fish Shelter

Near the infilled figures is more charcoal art, which are of indeterminate figures.

IMG 1587 LR Big Jims Point Fish Shelter

Near the long but shallow shelter is a semi-permanent creek, with a few deep waterholes.

IMG 1578 LR Big Jims Point Fish Shelter
IMG 1588 LR Big Jims Point Fish Shelter
Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Hiking the World, and receive notifications of new posts by email. (A hike is added every 1-2 weeks, on average.)

Join 548 other subscribers

0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Aboriginal Rock Art – Lane Cove
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.
Aboriginal Rock Art in the Greater Blue Mountains
The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area protects over 3,000 known Aboriginal heritage sites, and many more which are yet to be recorded. This area includes the Blue Mountains National Park, Gardens of Stone, Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Hornsby Shire
Hornsby Shire - which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region - contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
Aboriginal Rock Art – Maroota and Marramarra NP
Located to the north-west of Sydney, just south of the Dharug and Yengo National Parks, Maroota has a high concentration of (known) Aboriginal sites. Many more Aboriginal heritage sites are located in the Marramarra National Park. The original inhabitants of the area were the Darug people.