Summary: A low shelter with Aboriginal rock art mostly in charcoal, with some red ochre. The figures include a wombat or kangaroo, snake and fish.

A low shelter along a low cliff-line, which has a number of Aboriginal drawings in charcoal.

The motifs include a fish on the ceiling of the shelter, and an indeterminate also in charcoal near it.

On the back wall is what appears to be the outline of wombat or kangaroo.

A long, sinuous figure may be a snake.

Some more indeterminate motifs may have been larger figures, which have been weathered.

Behind more weathered charcoal figures is a red ochre motif.

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Behind a human figure is a fish drawn vertically in red ochre.

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This charcoal figure is also indeterminate, but may represent another animal.

There are also three birsd tracks; the third one is very indistinct or weathered.

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