Roy Wijbenga was born in 1968 in Gaasterland, Friesland in the Netherlands. Lived in Stavoren for some years and migrated with his family in 1981 to Australia. Roy is a driller and gold prospector and is the force behind this project that will turn the desert into a slice of Friesland. He has financed this whole project on his own. It started about six years ago after a little girl, Moeesha, was bitten by a mosquito and contracted encephalitis.