Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter above the Hawkesbury River with boomerangs in red ochre, and kangaroos drawn in charcoal.

Near the Gunderman Emu Shelter and part of a small cluster of Aboriginal rock art sites, this honeycombed shelter has a number of small motifs.

The most prominent motifs are four boomerangs in red ochre.

Superimposed on the boomerangs is a wallaby or kangaroo in charcoal, and what may be the remnants of a second macropod.

To the right of the boomerangs is another wallaby/kangaroo.

To the left of the boomerangs is another charcoal motif – possibly another macropod – and some red ochre figures.

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