Grave fears as search continues for little boy lost Ruben Scott, 2

There is still no sign of little boy lost, Ruben Scott, missing since Tuesday.

Ruben Scott, 2, who has gone missing at Koolatah Station, with mum Natasha Scott.

Police hold grave fears for a toddler who’s been missing for more than two days on an isolated far north Queensland cattle station.

But Cape Patrol Inspector Mark Henderson says they won’t give up trying to reunite two-year-old Ruben Scott with his family.

If the little boy is still alive, he’s spent two nights on his own after going missing from his home on Koolatah Station on Tuesday afternoon.

“I guess it is coming to that time where the fears that we have for this young fellow start to become grave,” Insp Henderson said via video. “But we won’t stop … we will continue to try and reunite that child with their parents and grandparents.” He said more resources were coming from Cairns to help the family, police, State Emergency Service crews and some 20 people from neighbouring properties.

Seven helicopters and heat seeking drones have crisscrossed the 170,000-hectare station scouring for signs of the boy as others searched on foot, horseback or motorbike.

But by midday today there was still no sign.

Police divers were due to arrive early afternoon as the property backs onto a lagoon and the Mitchell River, east of Kowanyama, on the western side of Cape York Peninsula.

The little boy was last seen about 5pm on Tuesday playing in the garage at the homestead on Koolatah Station, 100km east of Kowanyama in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

His family, believing he had wandered away from the homestead, launched an initial search before notifying police that he could not be found.

Station hands joined the family as they searched into the night until they were given a reprieve by State Emergency Service crews and local rangers.

Helicopters owned by graziers from surrounding properties yesterday hovered above the rugged landscape in search of the boy.

The largely undeveloped station on the western side of Cape York Peninsula is heavily forested and bordered by the Mitchell and Alice rivers, which spill out across the delta during the wet season, filling channels, dams and natural waterholes which are known crocodile habitats. .

Police and State Emergency Service volunteers from Cairns, Mareeba and Atherton yesterday flew to the property, which has its own airstrip, to join the search, while two carloads of volunteers drove from Cairns.

SES regional director Wayne Coutts said drones used in the search, include one equipped with specialised night-vision technology capable of ­detecting body heat. Inspector Mark Henderson said the search would continue. “We’re doing everything we can to find this young fellow,” he said.

The little boy’s mother, Natasha Scott, and distraught relatives have shared their desperation on social media.

“As people may know my little Ruby has gone missing,” she wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

“I have every person that can help helping to find him … (I am) trying to hold myself together.” Ms Scott thanked everyone who had helped spread the message about her son and joined in to look for him.

“Come home baby please Aunty Reesey misses you we all miss you,” his aunt Cherese Scott wrote on Facebook.

“We want our Ruby home safe and sound.”

with AAP