Queenslanders survey cyclone Yasi's aftermath – in pictures

The Balmain family survey damage to their home in Tully, north Queensland, after the roof was ripped off Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

A message shows the spirit of a homeowner after the building was destroyed in Tully Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

Destroyed homes in Tully Heads Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

Damaged boats are stacked on top of one another at Port Hinchinbrook boat harbour in Cardwell, north Queensland Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

Don and Sandra Cameron return to their home in Tully Heads Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

Greville Blank surveys his destroyed home in Tully Heads Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

Homes destroyed in Tully, north Queensland Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

A wrecked home in the town of Tully Photograph: Jonathan Wood/Getty Images

Anna Bligh, the Queensland premier, and Wayne Swan, the deputy prime minister, inspect the devastated town of Cardwell in north Queensland Photograph: Louise Myers/EPA

People take in the damage to their homes Photograph: Newspix /Rex Features

Flattened banana trees outside Innisfail, north Queensland Photograph: Maryann Uechtritz/EPA

Traffic is stopped beside a flooded and flattened banana plantation near the town of Tully Photograph: Dave Hunt/AFP/Getty Images

Debris on the streets of Townsville Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features

Angela Loeken wades through floodwaters as she surveys the damage in the centre of Townsville Photograph: Fiona Harding/Newspix/Rex Features

Broken powerlines across a flooded road at the settlement of Cowley Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images

A weather satellite shows Cyclone Yasi moving inland after battering the north Queensland coast Photograph: Reuters