plotting their escape

STANDING ON A NARROW ROAD in the Byron Bay hinterland, Julie Granger’s heart was in her throat. Half her dream home, a classic 1900s Queenslander, was on the back of a truck, precariously crossing a creek over a single lane bridge. “We were watching to make sure it wouldn’t fall off,” the 43-year-old barrister explains.

Julie had always wanted to relocate a Queenslander. The timber homes are common in subtropical Australia and were part of her childhood, growing up in the Northern Rivers of NSW.