"My husband whispered of palms and tropical nights....what woman in my cicumstances, wouldn't have been swayed? So we left Europe and all we had known and sailed through the Suez Canal, which you could still do at that time, for Australian shores. It was an exciting time. Little did we know that the contract we had signed would lead us to the remote north-west of Australia, to a region about as remote and rugged as Siberia might have been! (p.10)