A complex Aboriginal rock art site in Ingleside, first documented by W.D. Campbell, and later by Fred McCarthy, who described it as an emu hunt.
An emu hunt in which the emu is cleverly shown struck with a heavy boomerang and posed as though it is about to fall over; the shields of 6 hunters are shown. Another animal is speared but whether the little men are associated with it, as seems probable, or with the emu is not clear. A casual eel, stingray and indeterminate line figure also present.
McCarthy (1983)
Emu
Emu
Boomerang
Shield
Shield
Shield
Shields
Group of three shields and mundoe
Indeterminate figure and Man
Man
Mundoe
The most distinct figure is an emu with a “high, head angled on top with a conical beak, no eyes, broad curved neck, flat humped rounded rump, wings indicated by an angled hump and a pointed fin, straight hind leg with 3 long pointed toes”.
The emu has been hit by a returning boomerang, and just behind it is a shield.
In front of the emu are two more shields – both of them heavily pitted.
Below the emu is a figure described and drawn by Campbell as an eel – but it doesn’t appear to have any fins (it is similar in appearance to a much larger figure above Wheelers Creek in the Red Hill Reserve).
To the west of the emu are three more shields, with a mundoe between them (there are eight mundoes scattered throughout the group).
At the southern end of the rock platform is a “Huge indeterminate figure the part shown being 16′ long, and it looks like the tail fin… of a whale”, and inside this figure is one of three men (all of whom are very weathered).
A second man is near the whale fin: “2’6″ tall, upright, oval head, no eyes, on thin neck, truncated arms upraised, straight sided body, straight pointed legs wide apart, broad pointed penis.”
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