Hardys Bay Marine Engraving

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a marine creature along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of sites: 2
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Whale
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2018
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 1/14
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 1/14 (Kincumber Peninsula), p.4

A single Aboriginal engraving of a marine creature, along the Hardys Bay Trail in Bouddi National Park. Ian Sim documented this as a whale.

1X3A6849 LR Hardys Bay Marine Engraving

Next to the carving is a small pothole, which doesn’t have any axe grinding grooves or water channels – but makes this is a very picturesque site.

1X3A6848 LR Hardys Bay Marine Engraving

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