Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter with charcoal and red ochre figures in a shallow shelter near Big Jims Point.

A shelter located in a remote gully near Big Jims Point contains charcoal and red ochre Aboriginal rock art. The most distinct figures are two infilled fish and a curved boomerang which may be a boomerang.

Overlapping these charcoal figures are additional motifs in red ochre.

Near the infilled figures is more charcoal art, which are of indeterminate figures.

Near the long but shallow shelter is a semi-permanent creek, with a few deep waterholes.

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