Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo

Summary: Aboriginal engraving of a fish and mundoe (both very faint) on a rock platform near the Red Hill Main Track (Red Hill Reserve)

Site type: Rock engraving
Number of motifs: 2
Motif/s: Fish, Mundoe (foot)
Quality: 3/5
Condition of site: Good
Year first recorded: 1982

This Aboriginal engraving site in Red Hill Reserve depictis what appears to be a school of fish. It’s located between two sites documented by W.D. Campbell and Fred McCarthy – Wheeler Creek Kangaroo and Wheeler Creek Shields – but was overlooked by both of them. Two fish are swimming towards the east; between them is what appears to be a mundoe.

IMG 0224 LR Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo

One of the two fish has been engraved with more detail, including three fins and a well-defined tail.

Another two fish are adjacent to these.

IMG 0226 LR Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo

About ten metres to the south is a wallaby or kangaroo.

IMG 0233 LR Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo

IMG 0230 LR Wheeler Creek Fish and Kangaroo

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Exploring the south of Red Hill Reserve | Hiking the World · September 23, 2021 at 8:48 pm

[…] The narrow track soon re-emerges onto the Red Hill Main Trail, where there are a couple of Aboriginal engraving sites: one with a deeply-carved kangaroo, and another with a fish and mundoe. […]