A well-equipped tourist needed everything in his bag of tricks to guide a rescuer to him after he broke his ankle on a deserted walking track in North Queensland.
A well-equipped tourist needed everything in his bag of tricks to guide rescuers to him after he broke his ankle on a deserted walking track in North Queensland.A whistle, camera and personal locator beacon helped rescuers find himA CQ Rescue crew was called to a distress beacon activated on the Broken River Trail at Eungella, 81km from Mackay, about 3pm Monday.
"We made our way out towards Eungella National park and were searching in the area for an hour," Mr Wakefield said. Rocky terrain and a thick tree canopy made it impossible to get a visual from the air of the bushwalker."He had a whistle and that attracted my attention and was the only reason I could really find him," he said.
Mr Wakefield said he saw a flash from the man's camera as he was being winched down again from the chopper.
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