When a monsoonal low hit Thea Harrington's farm, she and her husband Dudley sat in silence for hours, in fact days while downpour after downpour battered their tin roof – it was the stuff of nightmares - there was no communication with the outside world, and no way of moving from their home, no way to quantify the devastation.

For Thea - not originally from the country - there could have been no bigger introduction to Life on the Land - she'd only lived at Werrina, 30km north of Julia Creek for 18 short months before this great test of their relationship and new marriage.

The result is an awe-inspiring partnership, tested over and over again - each time coming up trumps with a growing gratitude for life and the people in it.

Thank you to our sponsor for this episode brought to you by the Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority, or QRIDA. For more than 25 years, QRIDA has been supporting Queensland primary producers to make a start in agriculture, improve long

term sustainability and profitability of their enterprise, recover from natural disasters and get

back on track with their finances.