Information on the distinctive shipwreck partially exposed on the northern side of Witts Island is hard to find. The vessel has been attributed to the timber drogher Salamander, allegedly owned and operated by Allan Taylor and abandoned there (Drake & Fleming, 1988: 20). The hull is substantially intact to the level of the deck.
The most characteristic feature is the collapsed deck structure which has fallen across the site and partly onto the adjacent mangrove bank. The vessel's overall design appears typical of the flat bow droghers which operated on the river system.
Information on the vessel's working life has not been collated at the present time, but the site survives as the best preserved timber drogher wreck in the Myall Lakes system.
