The Garrigal people originally inhabited West Head, which is home to one of the largest known concentrations of recorded Aboriginal sites in Australia. The Basin & Mackerel Trail, America Bay Track and Topham Hill are some areas with significant Aboriginal engraving sites.
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 2 has fifteen hand stencils in red ochre, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Number of motifs: 15
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Great Mackerel Shelter with Art (SWA) 3 has two partial hand stencils, on a cliff above Great Mackerel Beach
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2021
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
Over sixty Aboriginal hand stencils (as well as two foot stencils) in a small shelter near Halletts Beach at West Head.
- Number of motifs: 78
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1936
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Aboriginal art site with dry charcoal sketches of what may be birds, in a large shelter above Flint and Steel Beach
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
A small shelter below the Red Hands Track, with two handprints in red ochre, and additional stencils of what may be pieces of bark.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1964
The Lovers and Whales Aboriginal engraving site near the Salvation Loop Track at West Head features an enormous whale, and a copulating couple
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Below the Lovett Bay pool is a set of axe griinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
A man (fairly weathered) south of the Mackerel Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
A whale and bird engraving, and number of “stone circles” formed by thousands of small pebbles arranged in neat circles.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Single fish near Mackerel Track, on a rock platform surrounded by thick scrub
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
Three weathered shields and another figure on a small rock platform, near the Mackerel Trail
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
An Aboriginal engraving of a man peeing in a waterhole, some hands and fish on a small rock platform below West Head Road.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
One of the best showcases of Aboriginal art in the area, the singposted Red Hands Cave at West Head has multiple red ochre handprints.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Faint Aboriginal hand stencil, in a shallow shelter on the back of Topham Hill
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1987