Romance blossoms for Gippsland students
The happy couple … Eleanor Lazarus and Dan Harbison just after Dan proposed. Cold and wet but happy!
Romance has blossomed between two medical students who have spent quite a bit of time in Gippsland.
Eleanor Lazarus, now undertaking Year 4B studies in West Gippsland, and Year 5D student Dan Harbison became engaged last month. The pair was in East Gippsland last year undertaking their Year 3B and 4C studies respectively and have been going out as a couple for a few years now.
Fittingly Dan chose one of the icons of Gippsland, Wilsons Promontory, as the place to pop the question, albeit on a rough and wet day.
After hiking 12 kilometres out to Little Waterloo Bay at the Prom through the rain and mud, Dan found a beautiful place to ask Eleanor to marry him – and luckily she said yes!
According to Eleanor, they were “very wet and cold, but happy.”
“He didn’t quite get down on bended knee, in the mud. But we were sitting on a big rock looking out over the ocean, it was very beautiful!” she added.
Dan is undertaking his final year through Monash and is hoping to go to the Eastern hospital next year. According to Eleanor, the couple plans to marry next year.