In the morning, we went to Ubirr to get another good last look. The cave paintings are easier to capture on camera in the morning compared to afternoon.
This is the main gallery of the site and also is the kitchen back in time. Showing many layers of rock art whereby the aboriginals would paint theirs on the old painting. Mostly are art paintings about their food hunt, which they are fairly proud of due to the big size.
Look at that Barramundi! Must be yummy!
Tasmanian tiger (the center), believed to have become extinct on Australian mainland about 2000-3000 years ago.
This is Mimi, another ancestral spirits with long legs and hands. That photo was a bit way of yellowish because of the direct sunlight on it. This painting is actually very high up, which is impossible to reach and paint it. The aboriginal's explanation to why there is a painting of Mimi up there is that Mimi would use his long hands and pull down the rocks then draw on it. Scientifically, it is because the ground level was much higher back maybe few thousand years ago, where it was then reachable from ground to paint it.
Long necked turtle, a delicacy to the Aboriginals.
The mullet fish
Lion King??
Jumping at Ubirr.. What pattern also got..
Then we took the nearby Bardedjilidji Walk****. It was a good and fairly easy 2.5 hrs walk, exploring the sand stone formations, cave and walking beside the creek. Definitely no swimming in the whole of Kakadu National Parks cause there are crocodiles in the waters!
Next: Kakadu, Nourlangie Rock
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