My friend Enmoore had been wanting to do a traverse of Mt Banks for a fair while and we had planned to do it this day, but strong winds were forecast, so we adopted Keith’s suggestion for a walk in the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area instead. This turned out to be very good – we travelled through very interesting country and the wind there was lot more moderate.
We also found a number of Aboriginal art sites in some of the overhangs in the valleys. In the party was Enmoore, Keith, Phil, Marshall and myself.
The first Aboriginal art cave we found was very good with perhaps 50 hand stencils scatted along its walls. Most were in white with a few in red ochre.
Another overhang may have had art.
We thought there may have been a Kangaroo or Emu footprint engraving –
And some of the party saw a pair of Peregrine Falcons. We could all see evidence of their presence –
We walked up one valley, then crossed a creek and worked our way up onto the next ridge through a series of pagodas.
On top, there were some amazing views –
We walked along the tops for a while, then descended to check out some more overhangs, and finished off by walking through open woodland down a nice valley. On the way, we saw flock of White-winged Choughs.
This had been a most interesting day out.