Oginia O'Dell February 26, 2008

Remote Queensland

Oginia Tabisz takes in the remote corners of northern Queensland - from Aboriginal rock art caves to the wild beaches of the Cape York peninsula

Thala beach — Thala beach on the Marlin coast, between Cairns and Port Douglas Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Great Barrier Reef cruise — Visitors aboard the Calpyso on a snorkelling cruise to the Great Barrier Reef Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Truck — The Wilderness Challenge truck takes visitors 350km from Cairns to Jowalbinna in the south-east Cape York Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Jowalbinna rock art safari — The peaceful one-hour walk through the bush at Jowalbinna to reach the Aboriginal rock art caves Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Rock art Jowalbinna — 2,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art at the Death Adder site, Jowalbinna Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Jowalbinna — One of the cabins back at base camp at Jowalbinna Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Laura — A skull in the mango trees in the town of Laura, 314km from Cairns Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Flight to Weipa — View from the flight from Cairns to Weipa on the Gulf of Carpentaria Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Landing at Weipa — The view from the air of the red lowlands around Weipa, in the Cape York peninsula Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Croc fence — Welcome to the Cape York Turtle Rescue - and the crocs Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Sandy and a flatback turtle — Sandy, a volunteer at the Cape York Turtle Rescue, watches as a female Flat Back turtle prepares her nest Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Flatback turtle — A Flat Back turtle scoops out a nest with her hind flippers before laying a clutch of ping-pong sized eggs and returning to the sea Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Turtle tracks — Turtle hatchling tracks in the sand Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Hatchlings — One-day old Flat Back marine turtle hatchlings prepare for their journey to sea Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Turtle rescue — Volunteers help rangers dig out turtle hatchlings too weak to emerge from their nests Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Eggs — A volunteer helps rangers collect data by counting the number of hatched eggs and the number of turtles that perished in the nest Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

The view from Rose Gums — The view across the rainforest from Rose Gums Wilderness Retreat in the Atherton Tablelands Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Wallaby — A Mareeba rock wallaby and her joey at Granite Gorge in the Atherton Tablelands Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

The curtain fig tree — The hanging roots of a curtain fig tree in the Curtain Fig Tree State Forest Park Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

Cranes in a field — Sarus cranes in a field, Atherton Tablelands Photograph: Oginia Tabisz

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