Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in outback

A 48-year-old pistillate survived 5 days successful the Australian outback connected lollipops and vino aft her car got stuck.

Lillian Ip acceptable disconnected connected what was meant to beryllium a abbreviated travel connected Sunday, travelling done dense bushland successful the authorities of Victoria.

But she deed a dead-end aft taking a incorrect turn, and her conveyance became stuck successful the mud.

Ms Ip - who doesn't portion - lone had a vessel of vino successful the car arsenic she was readying to springiness it arsenic a present.

After 5 nights stranded, she was discovered by exigency services connected Friday arsenic they flew overhead arsenic portion of a search.

"The archetypal happening coming successful my mind, I was reasoning 'water and a cigarette,'" Ms Ip told 9News Australia. "Thank deity the policewoman had a cigarette."

"I thought I was going to dice there. My full assemblage unopen down connected Friday," she said, adding that she "was astir to springiness up".

As she mislaid anticipation of being recovered alive, she wrote a missive to her household saying she loved them.

Ms Ip was recovered astir 60 km distant from the nearest municipality and owed to wellness issues she was incapable to locomotion acold truthful stayed with her car, Victoria constabulary said.

She lone had a fewer snacks and lollipops to eat, and nary water.

"The lone liquid Lillian, who doesn't drink, had with her was a vessel of vino she had bought arsenic a acquisition for her parent truthful that got her through," Wodonga Police Station Sergeant Martin Torpey said.

"She utilized large communal consciousness to enactment with her car and not rotation disconnected into bushland, which assisted successful constabulary being capable to find her."

Ms Ip was taken to infirmary to beryllium treated for dehydration, but has since returned location to Cheltenham, Victoria.