Sunday, 29 June 2014

More Quinkan Rock Art


About 15km south of Laura on the Peninsula Developmental Road is the turn off to the Split Rock self-guided rock art tour.  The information board says "allow 30 minutes".  We spent well over an hour visiting the decorated overhangs.





Although it's not very far it's a steep walk up the escarpment to the "caves" with quite a few rock steps, so we were glad that we're doing this hike about 9am before it gets too hot.




Split Rock is a series of overhangs near the top of the escarpment with plenty of decoration.  The paintings are not as bright as the ones we saw yesterday; nevertheless they are still impressive and well worth the effort to visit.







Some of the paintings are similar to ones nearby that have been dated to 13,000 years old.


It's a very popular place (only $5pp honour system entry fee) and as we were leaving a bus tour arrived, led by Roy, our guide from yesterday.


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