He and his brother planned to hunt wild camels that move about the bush.
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Mr Foggerdy had been last seen by his brother Ray on Wednesday heading to the Shooter’s Shack camp, about 170km east of Laverton.
For six days, Foggerdy, who was in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops at the time, wandered in the Goldfields region with no water and food.
They found him lying under a tree and covered in thick dust.
According to police he had not had anything to drink for six days and was “extremely dehydrated and delusion” when he was finally found. “He was eating black ants, that’s how he survived. That’s the level of survival that Mr. Foggerdy has gone to”, he said, according to the BBC.
Search teams were sent out as the 62-year-old was not properly prepared for the trip, Australian media reports.
“Fear turns a mishap into a tragedy”, Cooper said. He was resting under a tree.
Foggerdy’s wife Arlyn said she cried when she heard he had been found alive.
“He didn’t have any equipment”.
Greatwood went on to commend Foggerdy for his fantastic survival skills.
Police Superintendent Andy Greatwood said a massive manhunt aided by Aboriginal trackers luckily found him “extremely dehydrated, a bit delusional” on Tuesday.
His family waited for any news and feared the worst, but now he’s recovering in hospital after having survived with only the shirt on his back.
“My concern was up and down”, his sister, Christine Ogden, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. 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. “I’m going to get him to get a satellite phone”, she told the radio station.
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“It was probably goodwill and a miracle that he survived as long as he did under those conditions with no water”, Mr Greatwood said. WEST AUSTRALIAN POLICE/AFP/Getty Images Reginald Foggerdy, an experienced adventurer, was lost for almost a week.
