Yep ...we are all still patiently waiting for the day when the people from world's oldest continuing culture, holding the same legal rights as a rock on a track before 1967, the traditional owners of this land, are at least acknowledged in the Constitution of Australia as part of the development of a treaty and edge closer to true reconciliation.

Yep - we are all still waiting ....

29 Aug 2020

Baiame and Rainbow Serpent, Christmas Tree Hill, Cottage Point

Lower detail of Baiame

One of two shields

2nd Shield of Baiame

Appears as a woomera

Lower half of rainbow serpent

Initiated Man

Upper half of Rainbow Serpent

Appears as an additional shield

View over engraving platform


A number of significant sites are located on Christmas Tree Hill (Taber Trig). Of particular significance is the presence of Baiame, an initiated man, and the very rare engraving of a rainbow serpent. The rainbow serpent is a very, very rare engraving in the Sydney / Hawkesbury District. The rainbow serpent is present in one other place in Kuringai National Park, at Somersby, Mangrove Mountain, Gunderman and Cattai.