Billimina Shelter

Beautiful quiet spot, with some amazing indeginous rock paintings. Lots of native flowers too!Be aware the walking loop on Google Map no longer exists! Also the roads off Henty Hwy are quite rough if you're not in a 4WD, still do able though.We also went to the Baundik Waterfall, which was beautiful and still had a little water even though other waterfalls had run dry!

Interesting paintings but obscured with the fence (probably so you can't touch it and destroy it) so cannot take good photo. Pity

Easy walk from carpark,the rock springs up out of nowhere and hangs out like a fanned mushroom,its easy to get a spiritual feel from this special place, despite the needed fenced protection.

Important art shelter for the jardwadjarli people who lived on this land from thousand years ago

Just past the Buandik campground is the picnic area and the place to start the easy 1km walk. There are a few steps but nothing too strenuious. There is reasonable tree cove on the walk for hot days. Drop Toilet and a few picnic tables in the car park. The site only has the one rock, that pushing through the undergrowth you can walk round. Art is fenced off but you are close enough to get a good look. Mainly tally marks and a few stick figures. On the walk there is a 100m fork to the Baundik Falls, which were only a dribble when we were there.

Walk was fairly easy but as the temp was 39 degrees it made it abit harder but was worth the effort. Interesting to see aboriginal rock art that is thousands of years old.

It’s not the easiest walk as other reviews would have you believe. Steep at times. It’s quiet and serene as well as a great connections to the history of the traditional owners

For the casual day walker, this short hike up a slightly overgrown track from a remote car park doesn't offer any physical challenge, but emotionally it is compelling . After maybe 50 minutes of climbing and avoiding sharp stones and overhanging bushes, through the misty afternoon, appeared Billimena shelter. At first sight, it looks simply like a large cubic rock dropped on the slight slope near the crest. As I approached, water, collected on the top, dripped into the center of a flat open area, protected from the prevailing South Westerlies by the rock itself. A variety of low native plants grew neatly around the edges, and coming to a natural flat stage, I saw rock face covered with drawings, in shades of ochre.Thousands of finger paintings, men, women, children , some animals, abstract images. Some faded into antiquity, some more recent. It is like stumbling into a well preserved library in an ancient language.I can imagine up to fifty people, a well fed Indigenous tribe, spending nights up at here, watching over the Eastward plains towards the sandy desert.Before the colonists started sheep on the plains, it was reported that tens of thousands of Native Australians gathered each year to harvest the nutritious daisy Yams - as far as the eye could see, women worked together used sharp sticks to dig out the sweet tubers, and replant the daisies for the following season. This had been the way for tens of thousands of years in the fertile volcanic plains.When the sheep were let loose, they fattened quickly. Within two years the Yams were all gone, never to return.

Amazing powerful place with an important place in history.

Small walk but more like mini hike. On the top is the snake like rock shelter with paintings.The waterfall nearby adds more wonder in the trip so must have a walk there on the way.