Keep River National Park - Jinumum Aboriginal Shelter and Art Site

The following day we did the 3km walk along the floor of the Gorge to view an Aboriginal Art site. Thousands of years of erosion by the Keep River has formed the shallow sandstone Keep River Gorge. A shown in this photo the so called path was hard to navigate because of all the loose stones. We couldn't take our eyes off the ground and therefore had to stop every few metres to look around.











Once again the gorge walk was beautiful, the boab trees, the wildflowers, and the cliffs of the gorge were spectacular. It amazed us how the two boab trees in this photo managed to survive on the rocky side wall of the gorge.











David having a close look at the Gorge wall.















David standing under the Aboriginal Shelter









Our interpretations of the artwork:

An Emu




















An aboriginal throwing a boomerang









A crocodile in white ochre


















The sun


















A Jabiru









A mud wasp nest on a tree beside the shelter and one of the wall of the shelter











As we were returning to the carpark we noticed this square rock of three colours which looked as if it had been cut straight on all sides. We thought an appropriate title would be "the liquorice allsort rock"