Every year students from Djarragun College travel 1000km in a convoy of four wheel drives on dirt road, to compete in an AFL competition in Bamaga, Cape York. The competition is part of an education program aimed to promote healthy, active living in Indigenous communities.
©Chris Hyde/The Cairns Post
The return journey from Cairns to Bamaga takes four days, where the Djarragun team played two, forty minute games; One thousand kilometres for eighty mins of football.
©Chris Hyde/The Cairns Post
This year Cairns Post photographer Chris Hyde went along to photograph the action.
"It is a bloody long way but its worth it. The actual journey is half the fun", says Chris.
©Chris Hyde/The Cairns Post
©Chris Hyde/The Cairns Post
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