Waratah Trail Echidnas and Roo

Summary: Two echidnas and a leaping wallaby on a rok platform near the Waratah Track,

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Echidna, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1954
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 Series 8 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind, Vol 5, No 1 (1954). Fig 8H

One of a number of sites referred to by McCarthy as the Arden Trig group, a large rock platform near the Waratah Track has two echidnas. McCarthy described them as a pair of male and female echidnas.

AWAT1798 LR Waratah Trail Echidnas and Roo

There is also a leaping wallaby in the middle of the platform, which is very weathered.

AWAT0235 LR Waratah Trail Echidnas and Roo

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