Near the Powerline Trail in Brisbane Water National Park is a small Aboriginal engraving site, with small figure near a small waterhole. It’s potentially a Ghindarring or “hairy man” figure.
A detailed description by Bob Pankhurst explains the mythological Ghindarring (“hairy man”) figure:
This small man with a large head dress and a boomerang with a very large penis has dots all over the body which might represent hair covering the body. This could be a man known to the local people as Ghindarring or the hairy man. Hairy men were said to come out at night and take people away to eat them, young Aboriginal people were always warned that if they did not do what was expected of them the hairy man would get them. These types of legends of hairy men appear all over the world; some other Australian names for them were Yowie.
A method to keep the hairy men away at night was to light a fire and keep it going all night or to take a burning branch and wave it around vigorously and emit lots of sparks, thus frightening away the hairy man. It is also not advisable to whistle after dark or burn meat or fat on a fire after dark as this makes the hairy men extremely violent.
Bob Pankhurst, Culture Heroes of the Guringai and Darginung People
Two kangaroos were also recorded by Sim on this rock platform; I could only find one of them, which is very weathered.
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