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the Flood Myths page.Grumuduk, a medicine man who lived in the hills, had the power to bring rain and to make plants and animals plentiful. A plains tribe kidnapped him, wanting his power, but Grumuduk escaped and decreed that whereever he walked in the country of his enemies, salt water would rise in his footsteps. [Flood] During the Dreamtime flood, woramba, the Ark Gumana carrying Noah, Aborigines, and animals, drifted south and came to rest in the flood plain of Djilinbadu (about 70 km south of Noonkanbah Station, just south of the Barbwire Range and east of the Worral Range), where it can still be seen today. The white man's claim that it landed in the Middle East was a lie to keep Aborigines in subservience. [Kolig, in Dundes]
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References: Flood, Josephine. Archaeology of the Dreamtime, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1983. Dundes, Alan (ed.) The Flood Myth, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1988.