Decades-long connection to shack tested as retiree shares toll of once in a lifetime flood

Lynton Harding and his wife Jane moved back into their flood-impacted Bowhill property less than a month ago. (ABC Riverland: Anita Ward)

Lynton Harding's love affair with his Murray River shack has spanned more than four decades.

He and his wife Jane first stumbled upon the quiet riverfront property in the small South Australian town of Bowhill in the early 1980s and built a lifetime of family memories there.