Lobster Ridge Kangaroo

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site in Bouddi NP, with a single carving of a kangaroo.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 1.5/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 1/17
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“SIm Collection”), Site 1/17 (Kincumber Peninsula), p.4

An isolated rock platform on the ridge above Lobster Beach has a single Aboriginal rock engraving of a kangaroo.

1X3A1957 LR Lobster Ridge Kangaroo

Parts of the kangaroo are fairly distinct, but the head and the lower back are quite weathered.

1X3A1953 LR Lobster Ridge Kangaroo

The site was documented by Ian Sim in 1976.

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