A clearly engraved Aboriginal engraving above a tributary of Wheeler Creek; an informal bushwalking and mountain-biking track crosses the large rock platform.

The largest figure was described as a fish by W.D. Campbell in 1899, and as a shark by McCarthy in 1983.

McCarthy also recorded a line of three mundoes, a broad groove and a line figure “representing a bullroarer on a bent line curved into an open ended oval at the other end, or it represents a penis and testicles, 2′ long”. Campbell only described “a very small circle clearly cut” in addition to the fish/shark – but his sketch shows the additional figures. These appear to now be covered by vegetation.

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