Summary: A rounded Aboriginal rock shelter in Yengo National Park near Pademelon Road. It has multiple hand stencils in white and red ochre, and some red ochre drawings.

Shaped like a breaking wave, this shelter near Pademelon Road in Yengo National Park contains Aboriginal hand stencils and drawings.

On the back wall is a panel with a stencil of a hand with part of an arm, as well as multiple figures in red ochre.

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Another panel has both an arm and hand stencil, and charcoal drawings.

The charcoal art appear to represent human figures.

There also seem to be some lines in white ochre near the hand/arm stencil.

There are three hand stencils in red ochre (only one can be easily seen without image enhancement).

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