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Audio: Cockatoos squaking & flying overhead.
I'd like you to meet Bonnie,
now Bonnie is a person that lived here
in the National Park, way back just after the War,
during 1946 and 47. She will be able to tell you
what it was like living in the National Park in a tent.
With her family, and horses.
Go ahead Bon and tell them.
They were great old days then and, the park was always packed with people.
The boatshed was alive with boats in those days
and there was a guest house over the other side of the river,
coming down the hill. I had a horse down here at that time
and rode the area and, naturally when the, we got the heavy rains and the weir would overflow
in those days, and the track, you couldn't get back.
As a matter of fact that's where I met my husband, at a flooded weir! Ha ha! Years ago!
He and another truck driver, they'd been up at the hotel, and they were coming down
the hill and they didn't take that turn quite big enough and went over the weir,
into the river...in the truck.
So it was quite dramatic and, I went round to see what was happening and, it went from there!
You're just here today to bring back the memories aren't you?
Yes, yes.
We've come down especially for her to see what it's like now,
so you've come at a very good time.
I'm 84 now so they thought they'd show it to me before I kick the bucket!
Ha, ha, ha!
Audio: Cockatoos squaking loudly overhead.