Refuge Bay Waterfall Engravings

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall with a fish, eel and man as well as axe grinding grooves.

Along the creek above Refuge Bay are several Aboriginal engravings and grinding grooves. Still relatively distinct despite being in a creek bed is an engraving of what appears to be an eel, swimming downstream.

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Nearby is a fish, swimming upstream.

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A thirs figure is of a man, who has a headdress and a boomerang across his body.

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Below the engravings are a number of axe grinding grooves in the creekbed.

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