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Saved by my Neighbours!

Driving my quad bike through the sugar cane fields on my family’s 6.5 hectare farm, I headed towards my favourite fishing spot – a creek on the edge of our neighbour’s property.

It was September 2022, and my mum, Ros, 45, and brother Jackson, 10, were back at the house a kilometre away.

Casting my line, a few minutes later I got my first nibble. What a beauty, I thought, reeling in a huge tarpon fish.

Since I was old enough to hold a fishing rod, my dad, Ben, 45, and grandfather, Col,

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