What does it take to build a 500-megalitre, man-made lake in the middle of a dry farming region?
"Sheer bloody passion, persistence and determination," was Ouyen Lake Committee's unofficial secretary, Tracey Lawson's, best description.
It has been 10 years since 300 residents from the north-west Victorian farming town of Ouyen came together to transform an abandoned dry reservoir into a vibrant recreational lake.