Echidna Engraving Site
This easily accesible site boasts a rare engraving of an echidna, as well as fish and an impressive set of mundoes (footprints).

Facts & Figures

Latitude 33.58390° S

Longitude 151.28314° E

UBD ref 77Q12

Description

The wheelchair-accessible pathway from the parking space on West Head Road brings this beautiful site into the reach of everyone, and boardwalks enable you to see the engravings clearly without damaging them by walking on the rock. It is also one of the very few engraving sites featuring an echidna. Sadly, the echidna is now quite difficult to see, but the line of fish and mundoes extending across the rock still makes it a site worth visiting.

To get there

Drive into Kuringai National Park along West Head Road, and towards the end, approaching West Head, you will see a sign on the left saying "Echidna Aboriginal Engraving Site". Park, and follow the short path to the site.

For more information

  • Stanbury & Clegg (1990), p. 68
  • Hinkson (2001), p.66
  • Attenbrow(2002), p178
  • Popp & Walker, 1997, "Footprints on Rock", pp. 26-27.

For full information on books (publisher, ISBN, etc) see the "Further Reading" page.

 

Image Gallery

Click on thumbnail on left to see full-sized image

Diagram of the site, adapted from Stanbury & Clegg (1990), with kind permission of John Clegg.

© Stanbury & Clegg 1990.

Mundoes at the Echidna site

 

Fish at the echidna site

 
 

 

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All material on this page © Ray Norris 2007 except where otherwise indicated.