Lost Tourists in Finke Gorge

Look where they come from. They have no idea of Australia, and their driving skills - good grief!

I had a young German fellow & his wife travel with us on one occasion. He pulled up near us off the Stuart Highway near Kulgera. This bloke was travelling in a "Fritz in a Britz" troopy, and come nightfall, both the two of them got in the back, and didn't come out. Though I think natures call caused this fellow to emerge.

He came over to our fire with his torch on and asked us why we were outside, and weren't we frightened of the snakes that come out of the bush and attack you [in bloody July in Central Oz]. My son, his lad & I were swagging it.

Turns out some smart arse in a hotel in Brisbane had told him this, plus a heap of other crap horror stories. He was put right then and they were good company.

I wonder if the lost Asians were not the victims of a similar caper?

considering the sand can get pretty soft in places when you drive through Finke Gorge, i can understand them getting bogged. i remember several sections of sand being very soft as we went into Boggy Hole and exited the park out the other end on one of our trips, so it's no surprise to me that people could get stuck out there if they were travelling alone and were also inexperienced 4wder's

Getting lost on the Boggy Hole track can be very easy at certain times and so can getting bogged too, and if you have had much to do with the dingos in central Australia in recent tirmes you may think a slight fear of them a healthy fear too.

Cheers

Hairy, the Alice misses you big time LOL LOL.

Best advice so far.

I think they turned back because their snorkel was not long enough ... : )

Jack

They were on the gps alternate route :-)