In her extensive involvement with wildlife and conservation issues , the Germanic royal person has travelled far and wide in North Australia, including Central Australia , taking many wildlife photographs , kindly granting Little Darwin the right to run some of the pix.
On one safari , she set sail aboard a coastal vessel which ran from Cairns to Horn and Thursday Islands and other settlements along the way . Passengers included a photographer doing a promotional series on the shipping service and two southern scientists who took water samples along the way . The vessel hove to off Lockhart River while a barge came out and took aboard cargo.
Going ashore at the very top of Cape York Peninsula , the pointy part of Australia, the Queen explored the foreshore, her camera at the ready , and captured lizards precariously sunning themselves on rickety rocks , at times posing like sun gods .
Going ashore at the very top of Cape York Peninsula , the pointy part of Australia, the Queen explored the foreshore, her camera at the ready , and captured lizards precariously sunning themselves on rickety rocks , at times posing like sun gods .
On seeing the photos , we wondered if the rocks had been piled up by tourists, this now an evident common practise by travellers all over the North .The Queen , however , thought they were natural formations , the landscape shaped by powerful forces of wind and sea .
At Horn Island , in the Torres Strait, bombed during WWll, she saw evidence of the conflict-plane wreckage , the heritage museum .
