Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 19:52
>What about heart attacks
Indeed! What about them! I think they might kill you. Every day I rise at 5.30am and think... "what if I have a heart attack today...!"
>a broken leg/arm or other serious injury.
Neither of those are serious injuries in a group situation and if it’s not a group situation (as mine rarely is) take an EPIRB.
>Some roads don't have alot of traffic.
I know! I live in fear of being out of contact with civilisation for a day or two - damned if I know why I go bush!?
>Can across some people stuck with a camper trailer 180K out of
>
Broken Hill towards
White Cliffs, they got stuck before 3pm on the
>Tuesday afternoon and we can through 11am the next morning and
>pulled them out....
My God! 20 hours without contact! They were lucky to be alive!!!!
Just use a bit of common sense, people – you don’t need to be loaded down with electronics; indeed they can offer a false sense of security – the major thing is to know how to survive in the bush when all the toys fail – there are plenty of books to advise how to do this.
Mike Harding
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