Fitzgerald Creek Shelter

Summary: A number of charcoal figures, many of them wallabies or kangaroos, along the back of wall of a long shelter above Fitzerald Creek.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 15
  • Motif/s: Eel, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 2023

A long shelter in the Warrimoo area, which contains multiple charcoal figures mainly on the smooth panels on the back wall. (The site is located on Crown Land, which is largely surrounded by Blue Mountains National Park.)

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At one end of the long shelter are some elongated, weathered figures.

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Next to these is an interesting combination of figures, which includes overlapping wallabies or kangaroos, and what seems to be one or two eels.

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To the right of these motifs is another interesting panel, which has multiple animal figures, including more wallabies/kangaroos. Unfortunately the bottom of the panel has suffered from weathering.

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On the ceiling of the shelter is another weathered figure, which looks like a wallaby/kangaroo.

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