‘Life is a journey with many twists and turns – we can all look back and say I wish I had done that, or I wish I hadn’t done such and such. Regrets are no help; we have to look for the good times. I’ve had plenty of those.’ These and much of the following are Elwyn’s words, and this is her story. It was 1901 when Elwyn’s father five-year-old Benjamin Thomas Wakefield arrived on the Darling River with his father, after travelling from Morgan by paddleboat. Benjamin was to be the eldest of nine children born to Thomas and Edith Wakefield who had purchased Minda Point Station after their relocation from Adelaide.
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