Sailors Bay Whale engraving

Summary: A large whale engraving on a vertical sandstone rock near Sailors Bay.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Whale
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Graffiti damage
  • Year first recorded: 1970

Above the foreshore near Sailors Bay is an Aboriginal engraving of a large whale on a vertical sandstone rock face; it’s quite deeply grooved, but the rock has been subject to graffiti.

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The whale has two lower fins; the upper half of the whale is harder to discern.

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