About 50km north of Lakeland and 12km south of Laura, you'll find the turn-off to the Split Rock Gallery, the only rock-art site open to the public without a guide. Entrance is by donation at the car park. The sandstone escarpments here are covered with paintings dating back 14,000 years! Depending on when you come, it can be quite a surreal experience to walk the path up the hillside in silence, solitude and isolation, before coming upon the various other-worldly 'galleries' in the rock faces.
There's a real sense of the sacred at Split Rock: it's both eerie and breathtaking. You'll find yourself wondering what the landscape looked like that many years ago and what life must have been like here then.
