Summary: A long rock shelter with spectacular Aboriginal cave paintings in red ochre. The four large figures are said to represent quails.

A shelter with spectacular Aboriginal cave paintings, the Sheep Cave is deep within Wollemi National Park. A long overhang contains four very large figures.

The figures are said to be quails, painted in red ochre – many times larger than the small, ground-dwelling birds that are native to mainland Australia, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea.

Two of them have more distinct outlines, with small wings visible on their backs.

In the same shelter are a couple of hand stencils.

An adjacent shelter has many more hand stencils

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

Red Hands Cave, Glenbrook (Blue Mountains)
The Blue Mountains National Park (and surrounding areas along the Great Western Highway) is thought to have over a thousand indigenous heritage sites, although much of the park has not been comprehensively surveyed. The Aboriginal rock sites in the Blue Mountains include grinding grooves, stensils, drawing and rock carvings.
Over 40 sites have been recorded within the park; many were located along the river bank and were flooded by the building of the weir in 1938.