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Jawbone Graffiti 1-Apr-2006 At 6:49:47 PM Rupert

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Went up to the Jawbone today in the vague hope of climbing something in between showers. No such luck, it pi$$ed down the moment we put our harnesses on. Decided to go walking instead and did a lap over the razorback to sugarloaf and down the road. Few roos, couple of wet English tourists (you came here for the sunshine right?), lots of lyre birds. All good.

However, at the base of the central buttress on the north Jawbone, kind of near the start of Route one (left of Spiegel’s start) some @#$% has painted four bright blue symbols on the rock at about chest height; a flag, a fish, two figures (and some other thing that I can't remember). Now assuming this is not somebody marking the start of a new grade 3 classic called "The story of a flag, a fish, two figures and some other thing that no-one will remember") I'd have to put this down to being just plain old graffiti.

But hang on a minute, what kind of person lugs glowing blue paint all the way up that hill (which actually isn't nearly as steep now the track has been "realigned") only to paint 4 obscure 3-inch high symbols on a rock at the base of an equally obscure climb.

I thought for a moment, maybe its a new art installation, and maybe I just missed Lord Mayor John So on the new track after he'd launched this important work, so I paused, comfortable with the silence, trying to understand what the artist was trying to say. Nothing happened, so I waited a little longer, trying to get into the moment, to be one with the artistic nature of the piece. Nup, nothing. Blue paint. Rock. Middle of central buttress.

Help me people, I don't get it.