Hungry, thirsty and coated in insect bites, Wilga was airlifted to a Perth hospital for remedy after she was discovered on Friday.
The backpacker had misplaced hope of being rescued, police mentioned.
“She spent 11 nights uncovered to the weather and survived by consuming the minimal meals provides she had in her possession, and consuming water from rain and puddles,” Western Australia police mentioned final week.
“She sought shelter at evening the place potential, together with in a cave.”
Wilga was affected by exhaustion, dehydration, sunburn, “intensive insect bites”, and an injured foot, police mentioned.
The driving force who noticed her, Tania Henley, advised public broadcaster ABC that she noticed Wilga waving her fingers by the aspect of the highway.
She seemed to be in a “fragile state”, bitten by midges and affected by the chilly.
“The whole lot on this bush may be very prickly. I simply can’t imagine that she survived. She had no footwear on, she’d wrapped her foot up,” Henley mentioned.
Till her rescue, she had been final seen on Jun 29 arriving within the van at a normal retailer in Beacon.
