Wendy Muffet looks out her window, having just canoed down the driveway to her house.
"There's an ocean in front of me, with ducks and all sorts of water birds," Mrs Muffet tells AAP from her home outside Forbes, in inland NSW.
Hundreds of properties in the central west town were under isolation or evacuation orders on Friday, as the Lachlan River reached major flooding levels.
Many rural properties west of Forbes have been saturated for months after heavy and prolonged rainfall filled the region's creeks.
Farmers have lost their crops, or have been unable to sow, and many have moved their stock to properties on dry land.
Mrs Muffet and her husband Kim, who run a bed and breakfast on a small property south of the town, have long been preparing to be cut off by floodwaters.
They expected to be isolated for up to three weeks, living off fruit, snow peas and asparagus from their permaculture garden.
"We were well-prepared," Mrs Muffet said.
"We've got a really big garden, so we'll be quite comfortable eating a few goodies from the freezer, a bit of chocolate in the fridge and plenty of coffee. We'll be fine."
The couple, who live in a house designed to withstand flooding, made sure they were out of harm's way and able to use their canoe to leave the property in case of an emergency.
The people of Forbes tended to be pragmatic about flooding, but the farming community was growing weary, Mrs Muffet said.
"I see it as a thing of beauty but it's not our livelihood going down the gurgler," she said.
"I think most people understand that healthy flood plain ecosystems need inundation from time to time but I've got the luxury of looking at it and not seeing a whole year's income go.
"Most of my farming friends are quite pragmatic. They know you live and work on the flood plain and that's something we need to plan for and be accepting of.
"But it's been a long haul for them. Three weeks is easy but six months - you get very tired of that."
