The Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is rugged country. Bordered for hundreds of miles by the Great Barrier Reef, a narrow hinterland of wet tropical rainforest straddles the edge of the dry and dusty outback. Welcomed on country by friends from the Kuku-Yalanji clan - the traditional aboriginal owners of this country - our Wildlands group was able to get a taste of this incredible landscape and the people and wildlife that have called it home for centuries.
The sun recedes west across the Endeavor River near Cooktown in far north Queensland
The elaborate 'bower' nest display of a Great Bowerbird
Hosts from the Kuku-Yalanji clan give us a traditional welcome on country
The rivers, wetlands and coastal lagoons of northern Australia are home to a healthy population of 'salties' or Estuarine Crocodiles. These ancient predators can grow over 5 meters, making it imperative to be 'croc-wise' in croc country
Away from the crocs, the mountainous hinterlands are awash in gorgeous, hidden swimming holes
Matt and Horace getting an earthen oven feast together on our last night at Shipton's Flats
These ancient rock art paintings near the village of Laura in the Queensland outback were still over 11,000 years old when Christ was born.
This massive paperbark tree thrives in the watery oasis of a riverbank in the otherwise dry bush near Chillagoe
A boulder balances precariously in the dry ranges near Chillagoe. With some of the most ancient rocks in the world, Australia is a wonderland of geology
Heading off sealed roads by four wheel drive the dry red dirt of Australia beckons us westward towards the setting sun