Summary: Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art above Sams Creek in Mt Ku-ring-gai; the figures include a large kangaroo, headless emu and kangaroo tracks.

Above Sams Creek is this very deep and large shelter, which may have been an Aboriginal occupation shelter as well as a rock art site.

The rock art consist of a life-size but very weathered wallaby or kangaroo; you ca name out most of its body.

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The kangaroo’s head is stil fairly distinct.


Near the kangaroo are a number of mostly indeterminate motifs in charcoal and red ochre (one of them may depict a bird).

Next to this shelter is a much smaller shelter, with a larger array of Aboriginal rock art.

First documented in a video by the Sydney North Venturers over fifteen years ago, this site was protected by thick scrub and only recorded ten years later (the echidna is located in a separate site on the same cliff line).


The largest figure appears to depict a headless emu, next to an indeterminate charcoal figure.

Above the emu are four charcoal motifs; the smaller two may represent kangaroo tracks. Superimposed on the charcoal motifs are five hand stencils in red ochre.

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