Human and animal footprints are preserved in 2 different settings near Clare Bay. Macropod tracks occur in laminated beach sediment of Late Pleistocene age (c. 110 000 year BP). They are preserved beneath a former prograding coastal fore-dune complex and are now being exposed by shoreline erosion and regression. Human footprints, emu and animal tracks occur a few kilometres inland on the margin of coastal saline lakes. They originated about 5 000 years ago, when soft dolomitic and calcitic marls formed from groundwater seepage and evaporation around gypseous lake margins. Preservation resulted from subsequent lithification of the marl, and the footprints have been subjected to continuing exposure and weathering since formation.