A large rock platform near Maianbar Road has a Aboriginal engraving site with a large whale; it offers a great view northwards over Port Hacking and all the way to the city skyline.
The whale has “a long conical head, mouth open, no eyes, 2 dorsal and 2 ventral fins, poorly shaped”.
Not recorded by Sim and are two small fish, which are near the whale.
This is one a series of four sites documented by Ian Sim and Fred McCarthy across both sides of the road, including a Bulbous Headed Man, a sunfish and flower, and another site with two whales. McCarthy notes: “Although the figures are scattered on different rock platforms it is possible that the man in ceremonial attire is a magician performing a ritual aimed at enticing whales to become stranded or that the site is a whale totemic site”.
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