Summary: A long shelter below Corrabare Road with Aboriginal rock art, including two eels in red ochre and a hand stencil.

Protected by a small sea of prickly lantana, this low but long Aboriginal rock art shelter below Corrabare Road has a number of figures.

The most prominent figures are a vertical eel, a hand stencil and what may be a second eel.

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The vertical, infilled eel has a fairly normal “eel like” shape – but an unusually shaped tail.

The seconf large, infilled figure, also appears to depict an eel.

At the opposite end of the shelter are more indeterminate charcoal and red ochre motifs.

Some of the red ochre motifs may depict human figures.

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