Sewer Pipe Fish Shelter

Summary: A small Aboriginal rock art site with two fish drawn in charcoal.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1980

Preserved in a small patch of suburban bushland, this small Aboriginal rock art site depicts two fish, one reversed inside the other.

IMG 6187 LR Sewer Pipe Fish Shelter

The charcoal art is on the ceiling of the long shelter, which is near a sewer line – hence the delightful name of this site!

IMG 6183 LR Sewer Pipe Fish Shelter

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