Andre Stiles (pictured) and his friend Dean Overall-Jones got into trouble after going on a fishing trip at Flat Rock, Claravale, west of Katherine earlier this week
Two men have been rescued by family members of one of them after becoming stranded in the Northern Territory outback without food or water days ago.
Andre Stiles and his friend Dean Overall-Jones got into trouble after going on a fishing trip at Flat Rock, Claravale, west of Katherine earlier this week.
Mr Stiles sent an emergency text message to his ex-girlfriend on Tuesday evening that read: ‘Please call 000 I’m stuck at Flat Rock near Edith Farms, been here for days no water or food.
‘I got no reception plz call 000 not joking plz help.’
She passed on the message to Mr Stiles’ loved ones before his father Mark and brother Nathan rushed out to the area on Tuesday night in a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to find the pair.
When they returned to the site on Wednesday morning, they managed to find Mr Stiles and Mr Overall-Jones alive but ‘extremely dehydrated’.
Another ex-partner of Mr Stiles and the mother of his child, Bobbie Toy, said the pair’s car had broken down.
‘They were both alright in the long run, thank God,’ she told the NT News.
‘I’m buggered, I’ve been up most the night.’
The pair had reportedly set off on a fishing expedition earlier this week.
NT Police was contacted for comment.
The pair were found at Flat Rock on Wednesday morning by Mr Stiles’ father and brother