FLASHBACK PHOTOS: 10 years ago in the Illawarra

Updated July 27 2014 - 10:31pm, first published April 26 2014 - 5:18pm

Ten years ago, a 35-year-old recluse who had spent 10 years living a sparse life in a humpy at the foothills of Macquarie Pass mysteriously died; a 10-year-old boy was plucked to safety from Lake Illawarra after he set out on a rubber tube at Mt Warrigal - and ended up 3km away; and more than half the region's monthly average rainfall fell over one Saturday night.

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