Sunday 17th June. On Friday at 0930hrs a call came in for an Emergency Services response for a Geologist reported missing by a mining company after not doing a daily check in since Tuesday. Gary and the other two volunteers from within Mango Farm that are in the unit set of on a bone shaking two hour trip to the area the geologist was supposed to be in , I believe known as “Alligator Hole”, access via the Port Keats Road. Tipperary Station sent one of their four helicopters to assist, and one of the team at one point had a trip aloft in the small cattle mustering chopper, in a stiff breeze, a bit of a test of nerve! Having found the geologists taped working areas, checked the GPS locations previously recorded by him, and finding no sign of him or his vehicle, returned late in the afternoon, having travelled between 3 or 4 hundred km. After the Emergency Services LandCruiser sat for a while two tyres were observed to be going flat. So they had to remove and repair them, one having been penetrated by a stick of wood, the other by a stone. In the meantime the police continued the search from another direction.
Next morning the geologist checked in from a location that he would have had to have come back past here, before proceeding to!!!! Perhaps he is no longer employed?
The three worn out blokes understandably didn’t feel like tending bar, and cooking Barra & Chips, so the Bistro was cancelled for Friday night.
The “Barra & Chips” rescheduled for Saturday evening got shaky about 1830 hrs. with a call to a “rollover” 20km out the Port Keats road, eight people involved.
Off went Gary and the two volunteers, picking up a nursing sister from another property on the way. The incident was in fact a Toyota Troppie, with 18 people on board, in the dust, crashed into the rear of a Road Train, that had slowed for a cattle grid crossing.
One fatal, one critical, two serious, fifteen to go to hospital. Two twin engined aircraft skimmed over the mango trees and river to land at Nauiyu at 2110hrs.the last trip I heard, out at about 0515 hrs this morning, with probably about 50km from the crash site to Nauiyu airstrip, to ferry the casualties.
But the Bistro was open for guests, with a little help from the guests that stepped in to help, and Rhonda cooked the Barra & Chips. A Dinkum Aussie, camping community!
Next morning the geologist checked in from a location that he would have had to have come back past here, before proceeding to!!!! Perhaps he is no longer employed?
The three worn out blokes understandably didn’t feel like tending bar, and cooking Barra & Chips, so the Bistro was cancelled for Friday night.
The “Barra & Chips” rescheduled for Saturday evening got shaky about 1830 hrs. with a call to a “rollover” 20km out the Port Keats road, eight people involved.
Off went Gary and the two volunteers, picking up a nursing sister from another property on the way. The incident was in fact a Toyota Troppie, with 18 people on board, in the dust, crashed into the rear of a Road Train, that had slowed for a cattle grid crossing.
One fatal, one critical, two serious, fifteen to go to hospital. Two twin engined aircraft skimmed over the mango trees and river to land at Nauiyu at 2110hrs.the last trip I heard, out at about 0515 hrs this morning, with probably about 50km from the crash site to Nauiyu airstrip, to ferry the casualties.
But the Bistro was open for guests, with a little help from the guests that stepped in to help, and Rhonda cooked the Barra & Chips. A Dinkum Aussie, camping community!
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