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A British tourist who got lost in remote Australia for two days, with no food or water, wrote an SOS message in sand before being rescued by Australian authorities.
A Queensland police spokesperson confirmed with local media on Monday that Geoff Keys, 63, got lost in the Jardine National Park in late July by trying to take a shortcut back to his camp.
"I made one of the stupidest decisions ever," Keys wrote in a post on his blog.
Keys, instead of swimming back upstream to where he had come from, the self-professed adventurer decided to take a shortcut through the bush and cut across to a track.
"Well, I was convinced the track was nearby, and walking back would have been easier than swimming. So I took a bearing off the setting sun and the rising moon and headed north, back the way I'd come," Keys said.
Keys later came across another stream, wrongly believing it would take him back to camp.
Keys wrote "Help, 2807 "the next morning when he heard helicopter crews searching in the distance, confident that friends had reported him missing.
"Help, today's date and my direction of travel. I thought this would be enough to get any helicopter that saw it looking in the right place," Keys said.
Keys spent another night alone, without food or water, before being rescued by another helicopter crew.
"I leapt off the bank into the creek but by the time I'd done so it had gone. I stood in midstream, yelling at the pilot to come back," Keys said.
"He circled me once while I jumped up and down waving my hat.
"He came around again while I continued to jump up and down like a lunatic and this time someone waved to me out of the window. My ordeal was over."
Keys was then taken to hospital for medical checks, suffering exhaustion and cuts to his feet.
It was reported the Keys' rescue is estimated to have cost 800, 000 Australian dollars (579,317 U.S. dollars). Enditem
