Cromer Valley Speared Eel

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site above a tributary of Wheelers Creek, with a single figure revembling a speared eel.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Eel, Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good

It’s unclear what this figure represents; it looks a little like an eel which has been speared, although an eel figure would normally have small fins. The site is in the vicinity of two other significant Aboriginal engraving sites above a tributary of Wheeler Creek – Wheeler Creek Animals & Tracks and the Wheeler Creek Shark.

1X3A7851 Cromer Valley Speared Eel

Near the eel-figure are a number of mundoes (footprints).

IMG 0263 LR Cromer Valley Speared Eel
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