A large rock platform above Rat Gully has a number of intriguing Aboriginal engravings, as well as axe grinding grooves and water channels.
On the eastern side of the platform is a group of three figures, including two speared kangaroos and a third, larger speared animal.
All three figures are very hard to see; the most distinct grooves are the back or the largest figure and its rear flipper-like legs.
The largest of the three figures has an unusual shape; Bob Pankhust describes it as a “large unknown animal”. It has a long spear protruding from its back.
The two smaller wallabies or kangaroos are also speared; one in its back and the other in its belly.
Scattered around the rock platform are many (natural) cupules, as well as a number of circular figures which are clearly engraved.
There at least two circles which appear to have been engraved around a natural cupule.
Pankhurst recorded at “two sets of three footprints”; under less-than-perfect lighting I could only find one of these mundoes (which would be one of three mundoes heading due west documented by Pankhurst).
The rock platform has a number of axe grinding grooves, as well as grooved channels.
A very unusual feature is a single (natural) depression which is filled with small, white pebbles.
Pankurst also recorded a ray and a male figure which he described as “A very hard to see man 110 cm. x 100 cm. There may have been a hairpiece or rays emanating from the head. This carving is obviously of a great age and is impossible to find unless the rocks are wet with rain.”
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