Indigenous rock art site in Australia's tropical north-west.

Indigenous culture, first nations people - mean a lot to me. My book, WHAT THE MONSOON KNOWS allows you to spend time among the various cultural groups along the equator. This photo was taken at a place close to my heart: Anbangbang Nourlangie in Kakadu National Park. This painting depicts the local people of the Gun-djeihmi who have since gone and another group care takes the site now. In the top right corner is Namarrgon, the lightning spirit. He lives across the floodplains and savanna from Angangbang and arrives in all his fiery, thunderous glory during the wet season. If you look closely you can see the hammers and flint on his elbows and knees from which he makes lightning. And what does it feel like to be in such a wondrous place? Well, Kakadu delivers a dry baking heat in the tropical winter months - with tall sand twisters roaming the terrain, to the sauna-like humid 38C heat of the wetter months. The storms send waterfalls down the side of the orange and grey rock walls, kookaburra birds call in psychedelic wonderment throughout the savanna woodlands. You can step back in time here in the Darwin chapter of my book.

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