Few could be saved after having been carved help into the ground

Keep River National Park is located in a remote part of the state of Northern Territory. Last Sunday went Colen Nulgit and Shantelle Johnson-from-home in Kununurra there for a day of fishing. But it would be a lovely day in the countryside turned into a nightmare when they got stuck with the car in the mud on the way home, writes CNN. Without a functioning network for mobile phones, they could not raise the alarm for help.

authorities, the area is rich in saltvattenskrokodiler in all the park's streams. Something that the pair became aware when they saw the tracks in the mud of the blodtörstande bestarna.

– the Crocodiles we have here is not afraid of people, they are not scared of anything. Everything is food for them, " says Colen Nulgit to CNN.

When the darkness descended steps tide, and in addition to the danger of crocodiles, the couple were afraid to be swept away by a wave or being attacked by dingos.

When Colen and Shantelle had not come back on Monday called his mother the police, who put a sökinsats.

Colen Nulgit tells CNN that he and his girlfriend had spent a chilly night under a blanket by the river bank without getting a wink in the eyes. In the hope that someone would find them, they wrote ”help” in large letters in the dry mud when the sun came up. But Colen Nulgit was worried that they would get to stay a long time in the wilderness.

– There are hardly any who pass by here, " he says to CNN.

when they heard the sound of a plane. For that, it would at the sight of them lit the couple also has a fire.

Thanks to the couple's resourceful initiative was able to rescue team find them and bring them to safety, unharmed but tired and hungry. In a statement, writes the police in Western Australia:

”If they had not kindled the fire and informed the members of the family when they went and expected to come back had we perhaps not been able to locate the pair.”