Currawong Beach Eel

Summary: Weathered eel on top of a large boulder, near Currawong Beach

  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Eel
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1986

A large boulder on the headland between Currawong Beach and Great Mackerel Beach has an Aboriginal engraving of an eel. (The boulder was described as a “conspicuous large square-shaped boulder”.)

AWAT5803 LR Currawong Beach Eel

Although initially described as possibly a shark, it looks more like an eel.

AWAT5801 LR Currawong Beach Eel
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