"See that?" Sab Lord asks, tilting his battered Akubra as he gestures towards a rocky crevice where I can just make out a small form.
"You can tell it's a Wilkins' rock-wallaby by the fluffy tail." As we venture deeper inside the cave, he points out a coiled serpent, a huge monitor with fearsome claws and even a collection of marine life.
Every wet season, the birds, animals and fish of Arnhem Land scatter as monsoonal rains create a shallow inland sea. But even with much of the landscape underwater, I can still see many of the local species recorded in the incredible rock art galleries accessible from Davidson's Arnhemland Safari Lodge.
"It's all done so beautifully you need to call it art;' says Sab as he guides me around the site known as Left Hand, his sense of wonder undiminished by the dozens of trips he's made here as born-and-bred Kakadu bushman and owner of Lords Kakadu & Arnhemland Safaris.
"But at the end of the day; this was used to pass information down. This mullet has its head snapped back to teach kids how to prepare it, and the stingray is drawn like an X-ray so you can see where its lungs are."