Summary: A low shelter with a complex panel of Aboriginal rock art, primarily in charcoal but with one red ochre fiigure. Most of the motifs are wallabies or kangaroos.

This some small and somewhat nondescript shelter below Peebles Road has a complex panel of Aboriginal rock art.

Most of the figures are on a panel in the middle of the shelter, and there is more art to the left and below this.

A number of motifs overlap; a wallaby or kangaroo in red ochre is superimposed on more wallabies drawn in charcoal.

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There are multiple wallabies in charcoal, many of them outlined in white.

Nearby is what appears to be a platypus (bottom right enhanced image from Matt Niven).

Below the main panel are five or six human figures, in charcoal with white outlines.

To the left are another two or three wallabies in charcoal; one of them (the bottom half of its body is faded) is much larger.

Another animal represented here is a koala.

To the left are a number of indeterminate charcoal figures.

On the ceiling of the shelter is another (indeterminate) charcoal figure.

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