00:00During spring many travellers who speed by Spona's chalet in Kosciuszko National Park
00:06catch a flash of yellow out of the corner of their eye. Those who slow down or walk in for a closer
00:13look are surprised to find it's actually a giant daffodil cross, its origins shrouded in mystery
00:22and myth. But for those who know the story behind Mrs Mack's cross there's no mystery.
00:33During the 1950s Minnie McManus worked as postmistress in a tiny post office near the chalet.
00:40Following a road fatality she decided to plant a memorial cross on the hillside
00:45of a sense abandoned golf course. Each year Mrs Mack as she was affectionately known
00:51added to the cross by replanting some of the daffodils growing around the former
00:56Hotel Kosciuszko that was burnt down in 1951. The staff quarters of which were later reopened
01:04as Spona's chalet. When Mrs Mack's husband Bert died in 1958 the cross also became a memorial to him.
01:15Although it's kept its form for 70 years or so it looks like a creature
01:21common in these parts has other ideas. It's currently flooded so not in use but
01:27I think a wombat wants to pay its respects too. So there we have it a memorial cross on a former
01:35golf course and now in a national park. Who'd have thought? Well at least the color of the ball matches the daffodils.
01:44the
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