A hunter missing for six days in remote desert country in Western Australia’s Goldfields region has been miraculously found despite having no water and eating only black ants to survive.
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His family described him as an experienced bushman but have now told him to buy a satellite phone.
Mr Foggerdy was wearing shorts, a t-shirt and thongs when he went missing.
“It was extremely hot, extremely remote, and most people probably wouldn’t have survived”.
Mr Greatwood said Mr Foggerdy spent the last two days sitting under a tree eating black ants.
The sister of missing Laverton man Reginald Foggerdy, who was found alive on Tuesday morning after being lost in the outback for almost a week, said medical teams could not give assurances on his state of health.
In a remarkable tale of survival, police confirmed he was found alive, six days after he vanished.
“The good news is he was sitting up and talking”, Greatwood said.
He is now being treated by the tactical response medic and will be evacuated by the Royal Flying Doctor Service via Tropicana gold site. The TRG were starting at 5am, that’s the message I got from the police last night so they found him between 5am and 6.15am.
‘It could happen to anyone out there because of the conditions of the land’.
Reg Foggerdy, 62, disappeared on October 7 heading to the Shooter’s Shack camp near Laverton in the West Australian Goldfields, a few 950 kilometres (600 miles) northeast of Perth, on a hunting trip. “Emotions have been up and down, it has been terrible”, she said. Her son Brodie Hunter, Mr Foggerdy’s nephew, said the discovery of the footprints had given the family fresh hope.
“They must have been very close to him (when Monday’s search finished)”, she said.
Police sent out trackers and launched an air search Thursday and found tracks on the weekend.
‘He lived up in Kalgoorlie and surrounding areas for 20-odd years, and he was a miner.
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‘[He had] fantastic survival skills’.
