Drive about 90 minutes south of Newcastle to Woy Woy road heading south out of Kariong. You’ll see a dirt patch on the east side where you can park, and this sign at the head of a dusty road into the bush:
Walk the path/road about ten minutes, ignoring the bugs and the heat. When you see a second smaller path veering into the bush on the left take it. The surroundings look a bit like this:
Walk a while along the increasingly disappearing path until you see the biggest tree in Australia:
At this tree scramble up the boulders at the edge of an old escarpment, ignoring the snakes and wombats. Marvel at the water-eroded rocks as you climb around them, and slowly circle around some car-sized rocks watching your footing:
Assuming you’re not yet lost – and yesterday Sue and I were for a while – you’ll end up in this narrow gap between two giant rocks:
Look closely at the walls behind sue. Do you see them? Here’s a closer look:
Behold! Incontrovertible evidence that Australia was visited by Egyptians in antiquity. There are the so-called ‘Gosford Glyphs’, discovered in 1975 and dating to the 1920s when Aussie soldiers returning from WW1 carved them about 5000 B.C. Scholars scoff marvel at the fact that hieroglyphs from many different eras of Egyptian history – and some never seen in Egypt – are all gathered in this one spot, not to mention how the carvings seem to have been done with modern tools, as if the carvers did it only a few decades ago had access to technology beyond their time.
Some say they are even evidence of aliens! The same aliens that made the pyramids, it is suggested, hopped over to this remote spot in the Australian outback and graffitied a few rocks before (no doubt) flying home. It’s a strange story to be true, but difficult to disprove.
I’ve brought you many Australian sights on the blog over the years. But can I ever top actual evidence of Aliens? After today’s adventure, nothing would surprise me…