Comedy of errors

Don't know who the bigger fool was? My mate that decided to go for beach drive on the Coorong in a hired Hilux without recovery gear or me for going with him without asking.

Anyway 30 minutes later and a rising tide the Hilux is down to the floor pan in sand. the only gear we have is 2 shovels and some timber.

An hour into our digging a hilux pulls up and the obligatory comment "stuck are ya's" is made. Works out the good samaritans don't have a snatchem or rope either. After a round of quick introductions I hitched a ride to complete a toyota drivers nightmare to pick up the trusty Frontera (complete with recovery gear and camera) to rescue the hilux. Just as I got back to the burial site I see the hilux being snatched out by another lux.

Missed out on grabbing some great shots of the fronnie snatching the lux.

Many thanks to the groups that stopped to snatch and to guys for the lift.

After reading heaps of stories on this forum about others being stranded without recovery gear I thought I was prepared and it wouldn't happen to me.

suppose the moral is don't trust others with your well being and it really doesn't hurt to ask "have you got recovery gear" before you get into someone elses vehicle.