Ken Gamble

Well, Dad's accountant was Jim Rafter, the father of Pat Rafter, the famous tennis player.

Jim Rafter was Dad's accountant in Mount Isa in the 70s.

That's where the Rafter family come from and we were very close family friends.

So Jim Rafter said, look, to my dad, we've got a little house, a farmhouse that we've bought in a place called Yumundi on the Sunshine Coast in southeast Queensland, you know, thousands of miles away.

And if you want to go and live there, you can go and live there for free.

Just maybe do it up and do some carpentry work because there was a builder.

If you're willing to go and fix the property up, it's an old dairy farm, then I'd be more than happy to let you guys stay in it.

So that was an opportunity that Mum and Dad took and packed up his Dodge Fuso truck, a big 10-tonne truck with all of our belongings and animals and everything.

What animals were you bringing with you?

We had two horses, a nanny goat, a pig, a pet pig called Honky, which was a white pig.

I've still got photos of Honky.

It was a domestic pig.

It grew up since it was a piglet and used to sit down for peanuts in front of the pub.

It would sit down like a dog and you'd feed it peanuts.

So true story.

All of you in the back of this big Dodge Fuso truck with our furniture and belongings.

Our whole life was in that truck.

And the five of us travelled down.

My older sister was in boarding school, but this time in Charters Towers.

Myself, my brother and sister, we all jumped in the back of the cab and we took off down to Yamundi on the Sunshine Coast.