BEL du Bois met the man of her dreams at 17 years old but it took 30 years and a move across the country to finally make that love blossom.

Ms du Bois said she met Warwick squash champion Neil Erskine while at high school in Sydney.

"I was at school with his younger sister Melanie and had met him a few times at their house," she said.

"I had a thing for him at the time and, unbeknownst to me, he had similar feelings.

"One day I finally plucked up the courage to go to their house and tell him how I felt but I was too late - when I got there Melanie told me he'd gone to Africa.

"And that was that."

Ms du Bois spent a few years travelling Australia, working in all sorts of jobs from fruit-picking to jobs on boats and in bars.

"I ended up in Perth and eventually got married and had three children and then later divorced," she said.

"I had a teaching degree but wanted to work in health and studied occupational therapy before starting my own private practice."

Over the next 10 years, this practice became the largest pediatric and community practice in Western Australia.

"I discovered that many of the patients I was working with had sleep problems," Ms du Bois said.

"The effects of sleep issues have a ripple effect, and can affect whole families.

"Sleep was a bit of a buzz word in the health industry at the time and I applied for and was accepted for a scholarship to study sleep science at the University of Western Australia."

Upon finishing her studies Ms du Bois opened two more medical practices; a sleep service clinic for people living with multiple sclerosis and another supporting people with early onset dementia.

"Over all those years, I always wondered where Neil Erskine was and what he was up to," Ms du Bois said.

"A girlfriend suggested I get on social media and find out, so I did. I found Neil and sent him a friend request and almost immediately he accepted it."

Months of catching up via text followed before the couple decided to meet in person, for the first time in 30 years.

"I was coming to Queensland and we agreed to meet up," she said.

"I was so incredibly nervous, wondering if I'd even still like him and if he'd like me," she said.

"But I needn't have been, the sparks were immediate, an instant connection - it was like we were teenagers again, our eyes locked and hearts pounded."

Ms du Bois said Mr Erskine asked her what she wanted from life.

"I told him I was keen to move back to the east coast, maybe Queensland, and try living in the country somewhere," she said.

"He asked me what that might look like and I described a beautiful valley, creeks and greenery, with a track leading up to a house on a hill, surrounded by bushland.

"He looked at me and said, 'You've just described my place.'"

On her next visit to Queensland, Ms du Bois said she visited Mr Erskine's farm in the Goomburra Valley.

"I stood at the gate and tears streamed down my face," she said.

"Then at the end of 2015, I packed up a few belongings and my fairly reluctant youngest child and drove across the Nullabor to start a new life in Southeast Queensland with Neil, finally.

"Sometimes you just have to go for it, and I haven't looked back."