hieroglyphics

July 16

Morning exploration of Port Johns Bay where Dave had heard there were hieroglyphics.  We saw some iron stains  on a sheer rock face and when I visualized them with the binoculars  I said ‘I see 4 guys, a 5 finned orca and a space ship’. Everyone thought I was joshing but then they had a look and confirmed. At closer inspection it could be a canoe with some sort of covering over it but ‘why’. We tied off the skiff on the steep shore and hiked up the lower cliff edges through thick brush to get a closer look and found a few more paintings. One larger simpler and more angular of a person and a shield which may represent copper ingots. Another had 2 orcas facing each other. One was an eye with a straight line going skyward to another eye and then downward at a 45degree angle.  Another was a human shape that looked like a bow legged baby or an alien.  Dave took the movie camera up to film the paintings.

In the afternoon we pulled up the anchored and went in to Shearwater, fuelled up, showered and did laundry. We were blessed with some warm and welcome sunshine. Tied up to a log boom but it seemed unstable  so while the girls went to the pub for dinner Dave anchored out. Sure nice to have a night out.