1. The animals of Australia appear in all Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and paintings. They help to pass on important messages. Tiddalik the Frog is a character from one Dreamtime story that has been told for thousands of years.
He’s also called Tiddalik the flood maker.

2. Water-holding frogs drink and absorb water through their skin until their bodies become a bigger and bigger store of water.
Once their
bodies are full
of water they
can live for a
long time in
a dry desert.

3. When he had finished, all the land was dry.
Then he dragged himself onto a rock and just sat there, full of water.

4. He still sits today on the top of a hill near Wollombi
New South Wales.