00:00I didn't think I was going to live this close to Casseries either.
00:14It was just they arrived and they haven't gone.
00:18What's happening?
00:23She would be one of 42 chicks since 2000.
00:28I videoed them all from tiny little chicks and they've just grown up around me.
00:34And then Dad will bring the chicks back and go, hey look what I've got.
00:39Dad's still chilled out about the whole situation.
00:41And you think, oh, how marvellous, how lucky am I?
00:45The reason I live here is because of the tranquility and the peace of it.
00:52There's never a dull moment. There is always something happening.
00:58Queensland weathers a frightening night of destructive winds and rain.
01:04And then when the cyclone Yazi came, it was over there in a little Nissan Irvan with a popped up roof.
01:10The wind's picking up, dropping it, beating up, dropping it.
01:13And then this wattle tree just came down and went, bop, and kept the roof down all night.
01:19I went, thank you very much.
01:22Just after first light and the next morning, the first little bird I saw was a little blue wren.
01:29It made my heart sing and nearly cry.
01:31Because I thought if that little bird can survive, then the casserees and all these other little animals, they're going to be all right.
01:38The timber came from here.
01:41A few or three big blue gums come down, so we cut them up.
01:43We poured the slab and I had the steel beams previously and up went in the house.
01:4716 days later, there it was, I moved in.
01:50Even though I've sailed most of the east coast of Australia, the calmness in the forest.
01:55That's what I felt first off, was this calmness at night.
01:58It's challenging.
01:59It has its moments.
02:00You know, it's challenging, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
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