While looking for honey in Marrakulu Country, Wuyal, the ancestral Sugarbag Man, cut the sacred Waṉambi tree. The falling path of the tree gouged the course of the Gurka’wuy River as it flows into the sea at Gurka’wuy. Inside the hollow log was the monitor lizard Djerrka, who was carried out to sea before being beached at Gurka’wuy by the incoming tide. The movement of the Waṉambi tree, as it follows the ebb and flow of the tides, connect the waters of several Dhuwa clans that are closely related through the actions of Wuyal. The ancestral Wawilak Sisters, in disguise as Yanawal the wild cat, witnessed the events of Wuyal, as did Djalaku the wallaroo.

– Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection