lucky they didn’t use sticks

In case you ever find yourself in this situation, you can also use the message SOS, its Morse code of three dots, three dashes, and three dots, or a triangle. For visibility during the day, build a smoky fire, and at night, three fires in an equilateral triangle.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Three teenagers have been rescued from a remote stretch of Western Australia’s Mid West coast after a distress message written in the sand was spotted by two pilots flying overhead.

A pilot flying overhead spotted the message and notified authorities, with officers from Kalbarri Police and the Mid West-Gascoyne Traffic Unit deployed to the area.

In 2014, five people who were stranded on a rock off north Queensland after their boat broke anchor were rescued after emergency crews spotted their SOS message written on a sandbank.

Last month, a South Australian couple were forced to activate a personal locater beacon after becoming stranded for four nights on a remote bush track on the Nullarbor.

In April, a group of eight people were rescued by helicopter after spending three days stranded on a dirt track while travelling between Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara, about 650 kilometres north-east of the city.

They were the second party travelling to Tjuntjuntjara that had become stranded in the flood-ravaged region since record rainfall in March, when seven people, including children, spent four nights in bushland before being rescued by helicopter.

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I’d probably have made it a lot bigger myself, but I’m glad it worked out for them!