Terms & Conditions

To help celebrate 20 Years World Heritage listing in the Wet Tropics Rainforest and Barron Gorge National Park, Skyrail Rainforest Cableway invites you to enter our photographic competition.

Skyrail is a 7.5km rainforest cableway in the Barron Gorge National Park, a part of the World Heritage protected Wet Tropics Rainforests in beautiful, tropical North Queensland. Skyrail is a multi-faceted rainforest experience, including the cableway, boardwalks, lookouts, Ranger guided tours, a Rainforest Interpretation Centre and historical displays. There are many ways you can celebrate 20 Years of World Heritage on Skyrail, through your experiences with: plants, animals, people, insects, flowers, fruits, nature and the tropical rainforest landscape, including the Barron Gorge and Falls. You can take your pictures from the cableway, at the mid-stations, on boardwalks and at lookouts: anywhere you like on Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.

Open to all who visit Skyrail from 1st May to 31st October 2008, entrants have the chance to win a Kodak prize pack valued at over AUD$600.

To Enter

• Take a photo, while you are on Skyrail in the Barron Gorge National Park, which portrays what World Heritage listing means to you.
• Photos should represent the aesthetic, natural, botanical or cultural values of World Heritage listing and/or the Barron Gorge National Park.
• Entries need to be taken during the competition period – 1st May to 31st October 2008 – and must be submitted with a 30 word explanation or description of your picture and experience on Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.
• Entries must be submitted as JPG or TIF files and should not have been digitally enhanced. Picture files must be a minimum of 200mm x 200mm at 300dpi.
• Photos should be emailed to photos@skyrail.com.au

Commemorative Calendar

A selection of entries received in Skyrail Rainforest Cableway’s World Heritage Photo Competition, will be used to create a commemorative World Heritage calendar for 2009. Monthly winners will receive a copy of this calendar

Notes & Prizes

• Entries will be judged monthly, in three different age categories: 5-15; 16-22; 23 and over.
• One winner will be selected from each age group, each month.
• Each of the monthly winners will receive a prize pack, containing a Skyrail Souvenir DVD, a Steve Parish ‘How to Photograph Australia’ book and a selection of gifts from the Wet Tropics Management Authority.
• At the end of the competition (after 31st October 2008) one winner will be selected from all entries to receive the Kodak Prize Pack. The Kodak Prize Pack contains 1 x Kodak C813 Digital Camera and 1 x Kodak 5300 Inkjet Printer.
• Winners will be notified in writing: prizes will be posted.
• Entering the competition is subject to the following terms and conditions. By submitting an entry, entrants accept these terms and conditions.

Special Conditions

• Entries must be submitted with your name, age, address, contact details and date of travel on Skyrail.
• Picture files must be a minimum of 200mmx200mm at 300dpi and should be emailed to photos@skyrail.com.au. The total file size can not exceed 6MB.
• Judging will be completed by a panel with representatives from Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, KODAK and the Wet Tropics Management Authority. The judge’s decision is final: no correspondence will be entered into.
• Skyrail Rainforest Cableway employees, their immediate families, contractors, agents or media are not eligible to enter Skyrail Rainforest Cableway’s World Heritage Photo Competition.
• Skyrail Rainforest Cableway reserves the right to edit the material you provide and reproduce it in electronic (online) and print form. A selection of entries may be displayed at Skyrail’s Caravonica Terminal and online. A selection of entries will be used to create a commemorative calendar.
• Competition runs from 1st May 2008 - 31 October 2008. Any entries received after 31st October 2008 will not be considered.
• By entering this competition, you agree to your email address being added to the Skyrail database to receive future communications regarding Skyrail operations, activities and sales and marketing initiatives. You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time.
• Download terms and conditions of entry