WITH crocodiles and deadly jellyfish in the ocean and dangerous cassowaries in the rainforest, Far North Queenslanders are used to living on the edge.

So when the monsoon rains start to pour there's only one thing for it. Wakeboarding!

Specifically, high-speed wakeboarding along flooded roadside verges while being towed.

By a ute.

With the long awaited tropical wet season finally here, Cairns-based photographer Shay Bourne headed out to find subjects to snap after heavy rainfalls this week in the wake of ex-Cyclone Oswald.

"I came across these guys wakeboarding along the side of the road," says Bourne.

The gang of mates had tied a rope to the back of their ute and were towing each other through the water.

"The sport is pretty popular up here, with a waterski park at the foot of the mountain and Lake Tinaroo at the top."

"I asked the boys if I could photograph them and they willingly obliged: they actually played up for the camera."

This uniquely Far North Queensland-style watersport is almost certainly not legal, but it sure looks like a lot of fun.

Simon Crerar is News Limited's Visual Story Editor, follow him at twitter.com/simoncrerar