Mount Olive Shelter

Summary: Under a small rock overhang near Mount Olive are some well-preserved cave paintings, including a wallaby and some indeterminate figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1992

Beyond the Mount Olive “summit” is a small and quite shallow shelter, which contains some interesting and well-preserved cave paintings. One of the more distinct figures is that of a wallaby or kangaroo.

awat5878 lr Mount Olive Shelter
AWAT5875 LR Mount Olive Shelter

There are some additional figures; it is hard to determine what they represent.

AWAT5872 LR Mount Olive Shelter
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