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A woman smiles in a bush setting. She wears an Akubra hat and a backpack.

A small bird is perched on a sign.

Pink cockatoos sit on a wire.

"It was a devilishly long way and by the time I got here I was pretty exhausted,"
Ms Sobey said.

A timber sign reads "Welcome to Eyre Bird Observatory, Wonundra".

A man in a long-sleeved khaki shirt stands in front of a building and smiles.

"Records at the time indicated that many hundreds, if not thousands, of birds had flown out to sea and drowned in front of the fire,"
he said.

Three people stand in a landscape of long, dry grass.

A man wearing an Akubra-style hat and binoculars looks down as he writes in a notepad.

Two wild budgies sit in a tree.

A python slithers across a dirt road.

"We're hopeful it will get back to pretty close to what it was."

A woman leans against a car and wears an Akubra hat decorated with small dolls.

"So people know there's a lady underneath."

A woman wearing a colourful shirt and white trousers sits smiling on a timber deck.

"I'm ready to start a whole new chapter … it's a good feeling."

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