In 1979, an Australian couple moved to a 10,000-acre island with two babies; 46 years later, their family helped remove three feral pests and completely destock livestock

Most people who buy property look at square footage; the Woolfords look at a coastline. The Woolfords acquired Flinders Island, nearly 4,000 hectares, or roughly 9,900 acres, of scrub, granite and beach about 30 kilometres west of the Eyre Peninsula town of Elliston, in the late 1970s. It is the state's fourth-largest island. In 1979, they moved there to run it as a merino sheep station, bringing along their son Jonas, then one year old, and his brother Tobin, six weeks old. At the time, there was no town on the island and no other permanent residents.

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