The America Bay Track aboriginal rock engraving site is fairly small and located in a swampy secluded spot. The main engraving is a 5 meter long orca.
Orca
On the lower right section of the orca is this carving of a female figure.
Female Figure
Near the center of the orca is an engraved stingray. The stingray has a long tail and two eyes.
Stingray
Behind the upper fin of the orca is a very nice engraved goanna.
Goanna
At another engraving site along the track is this large Daramulum figure. Inside the figure is a round shape with a long tail, probably a stingray. Near the foot of the figure is an unusual double boomerang design and some mundoes. Near the center of this image is a fish. This image shows an area of about 6 meters by 4 meters and comprises of 716 separate photographs.
Daramulum
This image shows a very unusual ‘double boomerang’ design.
Double Boomerang
Fish
Fish
Goanna
Awesome photos. how did you get the photos so well cut. The rock carvings seem hard to make out compare to these.?
We mostly use a technique that involves reverse mounting a remote flash unit beneath a tripod so that the flash fires at a very shallow angle across the rock face. This allows us to be able to photograph engravings regardless of the ambient light conditions. The flash only lights a small area of the rock surface so it can take many (100’s or even 1000’s) of shots to capture a large engraving.
There are a bunch more engravings – 2 men hunting wallabies on thus track above a waterfall on the creek that runs down the LHS of the track on the way down to the bay