The Mount Grenfell Historic Site northwest of Cobar, New South Wales, harbours three remarkable galleries of Aboriginal rock art, simple in style but rich in cultural significance. Other examples of this art are featured in my adjacent images. The galleries are part of a boulder-strewn area which, like the country around it, is semi-arid. It would be easy to see it as harsh and foreboding. But along with the blackened rocks and a usually dry creekbed there is a small semi-permanent water hole and a scattering of hardy trees. There is also a relative abundance of wildlife—lizards, kangaroos, emus and feral goats along with small mammals, raptors and other birds. The place has a certain haunting beauty and carries echoes of the indigenous Ngiyampaa people who gathered here for thousands of years before the arrival of European miners and pastoralists. © Irwin Reynolds, all rights reserved. If you are interested in using one of my images or would like a high-quality fine art print, please send me an email ([email protected]) **For a more artistic rendering, see my image #394
