Waratah Trail Emu

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site in thick scrub, which includes a fsh and an emu in an unusual pose.

  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Emu, Fish, Lines
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1898
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 13 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 112 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)

This group of Aboriginal engravings is on a small rock in dense scrub above the Waratah Track. The figures include a fish, and an emu “posed with its head forward and and its leg sloped backward in an unusual manner for the emu apparently indicating that it is walking”.

AWAT2089 LR 1 Waratah Trail Emu
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