Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Red Ochre Fish

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art site next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track with a single fish in red ochre.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Graffiti damage
  • Year first recorded: 2017

In a shelter next to the Mount Ku-ring-gai walking track is an Aboriginal drawing of a fish in red ochre; unfortunately the entire cave is full of grafitti, some of it over the art.

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The shelter in in a very protected, semi-rainforest gully and close to fresh water.

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