North west of the Kimberley are cave paintings famous for the images of the Wandjina painted in ochres on the walls of the caves.

The people of that area believe that the Wandjina (the creator spirit) created all the animals and plants as well as the people, he also created the wind and the rain. 

The Wandjina never has a mouth, one story regarding the reason for this is if he opened his mouth, the rains would come forever and the land would be flooded

The Wandjina is always painted with other plant or animal life, because, according to Aboriginal law, we are ever alone, there is always another presence with us.

It is said that the Wandjina spirit figure is the embodiment of the rain spirit and ancestor of the Wunambal people.

Found in the plateau areas along the North Kimberley coast and hinterland, painted on rocks and the walls of caves by long gone artisans, they are always pictured from a frontal aspect with no mouths, and large blacks eyes and a slit or beak-like nose, with the veil of dots suggesting raindrops.

Dreamtime mythology has it that the Wandjina emerged from the clouds, and will return in that manner, while other versions suggest that Dumbi, the Owl, is the model.

Lily, whose 'bush name', is Mindundel, meaning bubbles, and who maintains that she was born in a bubbling spring, has these water spirits surrounded by such bubbles.