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Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush:
A 48-year-old woman survived five days stranded in the bush in Australia by eating sweets and drinking a single bottle of wine.
Lillian Ip set off on what was meant to be a short trip on Sunday, travelling through dense bush in Victoria state.
But she hit a dead-end after taking a wrong turn, and her vehicle became stuck in the mud.
Ms Ip - who doesn't drink - only had a bottle of wine in the car as she was planning to give it as a present.
After five nights stranded, she was discovered by emergency services on Friday as they flew overhead as part of a search.
"The first thing coming in my mind, I was thinking 'water and a cigarette,'" Ms Ip told 9News Australia. "Thank god the policewoman had a cigarette."
[...] "The only liquid Lillian, who doesn't drink, had with her was a bottle of wine she had bought as a gift for her mother so that got her through," Wodonga Police Station Sergeant Martin Torpey said.
"She used great common sense to stay with her car and not wander off into bushland, which assisted in police being able to find her."
Ms Ip was taken to hospital to be treated for dehydration, but has since returned home to Melbourne.
I'm just off to repack my survival bag.....
(Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday May 09, @11:50PM
If I learned it correctly, beer and wine got popular not only for the booze effect, but also because they were storable, because of the alcohol working as disinfectant.
Where there's mud where a car can get stuck in, there's got to be water nearby (or was it dry mud without any vegetation nearby?). I would probably have tried to treat some of that water with a 30% wine addition to reduce the amount of gut-threatening bacteria. Also, with the fuel from the tank it shouldn't be too hard to start a fire to boil off some more water. Although a cooking vessel might have been an issue now that hubcaps aren't that common anymore - don't the Australians learn a bit of survival stuff (beyond the Vegemite coating against drop bears) for the outback as kids?