Ubirr

A short walk from the car park takes visitors past the main art sites to the foot of Ubirr Rock.

Also in the main gallery can be seen paintings of white men with their hands on hips, and, high up, Mimi spirits, who are so thin that they can slip in and out of cracks in the rock.

It is a puzzle how the artists managed to reach these bits of rock to paint the Mimi spirits.

The local explanation is that the Mimi spirits painted the pictures themselves, and brought the rock down to ground level to do so.

This is the spot visited by the Rainbow Serpent or "Garranga'rreli", during her path across the top end of Australia, during the Dreaming.