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23 October, 2022

Honeymoon ends on a tractor

AMELIA and Trent Brister travelled the last 1km of the trip back from their honeymoon by tractor through floodwaters. The Newbridge couple, married the previous weekend, had left Halls Gaps just as roads in the Grampians were closing on Friday.“We...

AMELIA and Trent Brister travelled the last 1km of the trip back from their honeymoon by tractor through floodwaters.

The Newbridge couple, married the previous weekend, had left Halls Gaps just as roads in the Grampians were closing on Friday.

“We had planned a river wedding but moved that to the hall,” Amelia said.

And within hours of being home, they were awakened by a rescue helicopter overhead in the second car rescue at Newbridge in about 12 hours.

“We left Halls Gap about 7.30 that morning ... we were concerned about the sheep,” said Trent.

“It took us about eight hours to get home and we arranged for our tractor to be ready to make the last kilometre of the trip to our home on the Bendigo side of Newbridge.”

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