Summary: Located along the popular Spit to Manly bushwalk, the Grotto Point Aboriginal Site included boomerangs, fish, sharks and a large kangaroo. The engravings are about 1,000 years old and have interpretative signage.

The Grotto Point Aboriginal Site at Dobroyd Head in Mosman is a signposted Aboriginal heritage site, located along the popular Spit to Manly bushwalk. Timber enclosures protect the engravings, and there is detailed interpretative signage. The site features two enormous kangaroos: one is the biggest recorded among the engravings around Sydney (22 feet in length), while the second one overlaps a whale.

Engraving Grotto Point Grotto Point Aboriginal Site

The site also has a number of boomerangs, two sharks and some fish.

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The large kangaroo was considered to be a figure of great power and strength, and of “prime ritual and mythological importance together with the other one”.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

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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.
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.