Nice video (of a place I've been to 3 times in the last few months for varied reasons). A couple comments - the kangaroos come out in force late-afternoon there just before dark, I always see 5 or 6 of them around then and also hear that many or more thumping around in the bushes next to track (they are very heavy-footed!). They seem particularly numerous in a certain segment of the Cowan Trail, maybe there's a family/group/herd(?) around there. Re: the engravings - maybe it's the wording of the sign or maybe it's just me, but I took the (paraphrasing) "if you touch or interfere with this site you will be fined" as just another "those who damage/vandalise/re-groove etc. the engravings will face $$$/jail prosecution" i.e. the standard which applies to every other sign-posted art site. Does "don't touch" here actually mean "keep out/don't walk on the rock platform at all" or is it "don't touch the actual engravings with your hands/rocks/tools"? Yes there's a fence too - but kids can go under it, and everyone else can go over/around it, so is that fence just an implied barrier, a "marker" to show what's there, or perhaps to stop mountain bikes rather than feet (I really don't know)? And yes, I do have photos/video footage from when I went there with the hope to make a YT video of it - but I've kept that on ice as what's right/wrong, legal/illegal at that site has me confused. It may well be exactly what you took it as, but it had me wondering when I went, and still does (and I also noticed the pics from the hiking blog in your blog write-up, that was before I went there myself and saw that sign - so I assume he also thought it ok to walk on the site to take pics?) To that end (whether you stay behind the fence, or otherwise) - the best time to see the engravings there is late afternoon (not quite sunset but just before - when the sun gets way low some shadows come into the site). It's worlds apart from the morning viewing. The site is wide open to the West, with barely a tree shadow from that direction, and the late afternoon sun angle brings the engravings out very clearly, most of which were done quite deeply - you'll see most of them at that time even from that fence (or up a tree!).
Thanks. Yes the other blogger removed his shoes before exploring so that might be the lowest impact way. I wasn’t really sure so I decided to be cautious. This close to Australia Day I didn’t want to go trampling over history...! I’ll revisit the area one day when I go up the Long Trail and when I bag the geocache.
@@solohiker9917 another marked site (Moon Rock if I recall correctly) actually has signage asking to remove shoes before walking on the platform (the only time i've seen that mentioned on a sign), which does make sense from a respect & low impact point of view, but yeah that is stated clearly without any room for doubt. Anyway your interpretation here is probably the right one and the one to follow if in doubt. I'm keen to head down the Long Trail one day too, few off-track engraving sites there.
Yes it’s just in this case there was a very specific sign saying don’t walk on it so I tried to do the right thing. Natural erosion will destroy them pretty quickly in a few hundred years so I’m not sure it matters much. I’ll just take my shoes off next time I think like you suggest as you are right it’s likely more for bikes and the like.
Nice video (of a place I've been to 3 times in the last few months for varied reasons). A couple comments - the kangaroos come out in force late-afternoon there just before dark, I always see 5 or 6 of them around then and also hear that many or more thumping around in the bushes next to track (they are very heavy-footed!). They seem particularly numerous in a certain segment of the Cowan Trail, maybe there's a family/group/herd(?) around there.
Re: the engravings - maybe it's the wording of the sign or maybe it's just me, but I took the (paraphrasing) "if you touch or interfere with this site you will be fined" as just another "those who damage/vandalise/re-groove etc. the engravings will face $$$/jail prosecution" i.e. the standard which applies to every other sign-posted art site. Does "don't touch" here actually mean "keep out/don't walk on the rock platform at all" or is it "don't touch the actual engravings with your hands/rocks/tools"? Yes there's a fence too - but kids can go under it, and everyone else can go over/around it, so is that fence just an implied barrier, a "marker" to show what's there, or perhaps to stop mountain bikes rather than feet (I really don't know)? And yes, I do have photos/video footage from when I went there with the hope to make a YT video of it - but I've kept that on ice as what's right/wrong, legal/illegal at that site has me confused. It may well be exactly what you took it as, but it had me wondering when I went, and still does (and I also noticed the pics from the hiking blog in your blog write-up, that was before I went there myself and saw that sign - so I assume he also thought it ok to walk on the site to take pics?)
To that end (whether you stay behind the fence, or otherwise) - the best time to see the engravings there is late afternoon (not quite sunset but just before - when the sun gets way low some shadows come into the site). It's worlds apart from the morning viewing. The site is wide open to the West, with barely a tree shadow from that direction, and the late afternoon sun angle brings the engravings out very clearly, most of which were done quite deeply - you'll see most of them at that time even from that fence (or up a tree!).
Thanks. Yes the other blogger removed his shoes before exploring so that might be the lowest impact way. I wasn’t really sure so I decided to be cautious. This close to Australia Day I didn’t want to go trampling over history...! I’ll revisit the area one day when I go up the Long Trail and when I bag the geocache.
@@solohiker9917 another marked site (Moon Rock if I recall correctly) actually has signage asking to remove shoes before walking on the platform (the only time i've seen that mentioned on a sign), which does make sense from a respect & low impact point of view, but yeah that is stated clearly without any room for doubt. Anyway your interpretation here is probably the right one and the one to follow if in doubt. I'm keen to head down the Long Trail one day too, few off-track engraving sites there.
I take my shoes off and try not to step on the actual engravings, fences designed to keep MTB and vehicles off
Yes it’s just in this case there was a very specific sign saying don’t walk on it so I tried to do the right thing. Natural erosion will destroy them pretty quickly in a few hundred years so I’m not sure it matters much. I’ll just take my shoes off next time I think like you suggest as you are right it’s likely more for bikes and the like.