Imagine this. Cloncurry, northwestern Queensland, 1970.
A 23-yr-old unemployed schoolteacher took on a job as governess for a child on a distant cattle station (aka ranch). But she was unable to reach that property because all direct access roads were flooded. So the station owner contacted the local shire, who sent out one of their junior engineers to drive her to her destination via the unaffected back roads.
15 months later, they were married.
That's how my cousin Colin met his late wife, Wendy.