Ken Gamble

It was half buried.

One of the guys almost walked on it and it was just a miraculous find.

Did you expect to find her there as well?

Yes, we did.

We thought her remains could be very close.

So we then regrouped and we said, well, we're on the right track here.

Now that we've got her phone, we believe her remains could be

anywhere in this in this vicinity so we went on to continue the grid searching literally five more days and we we covered about 40 hectares of of land through treacherous forest climbing over logs and under logs and undergrowth and it was very treacherous in some places but we eliminated that whole search area and we're able to determine that she was definitely not there and she must have gone because if she went south she would have gone to the car park she would have come across the road

So she must have gone north towards the Arthur River.

She's dropped the phone just 70 metres from that last GPS coordinate when it got dark and it was raining, freezing cold, zero degrees.

She's climbing through the bush and the phone has fallen out of her pocket or her jacket.

It's fallen on the ground and she would have gone into a panic at that point because that was her lifeline, that phone.

To get out of there was her lifeline.

She had that map on her phone.

What we now know is that she's doubled back.

She's gone back the way she came, back over the hill, and she's made her way down until she's hit the Arthur River.

And then she's gone down the Arthur River and

to a point where I believe, based on all the evidence, that she tried to cross through what we call log jams.

There's fallen trees across the river and there's very strong rapids running down this river, particularly when it floods.

So I believe that she's tried to cross.