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Missing woman at Mount William found, January 2005
A female bushwalker was reported missing Sunday 16 January 2005 near Mt William in the Grampians. She had separated from her companion to do a walk on the Major Mitchell Plateau and failed to meet up at the agreed rendezvous point.
She was last seen at a campsite on the headwaters of First Wannon Creek.
The Police, Parks and SES search on Sunday found no sign of the missing walker.
BSAR members joined the search on Monday 17 January. A BSAR search group found the missing woman on the First Wannon Creek and escorted her out to safety.
Mount Buffalo search for missing man, May 2004
BSAR members were called out on Saturday 15th May 2004 to assist in the search for a man missing on Mount Buffalo.
Police Search and Rescue, SES and some climbers conducted initial searching on the two days prior to BSAR being called.
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Lake Mountain Search for missing man, August 2002
On Sunday afternoon, 4 August a man became lost in the vicinity of the toboggan run at Lake Mountain. The area was snow covered.
BSAR was called out at midnight, with a large team arriving at Lake Mountain mid morning on Monday 5 August. Searching that day was unsuccessful.
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Cambarville search, March 2003
A missing man’s car was located on the Woods Point Road, Cambarville. Initial searching was unsuccessful.
A BSAR call out resulted in a large team joining the search effort early on Monday 17 March. BSAR groups searched the main gullies and spurs.
Search for Alfred Howie at Wilsons Promontory – the first search
We don’t know the names or the clubs of the 11 volunteer bushwalkers who left the Russell Street Police Headquarters in 2 trucks early on Friday 6 May 1949 for Port Welshpool. There they boarded a fishing ketch and were landed on the east coast of Wilsons Promontory to join the large search for a missing bushwalker.
This was the first occasion volunteer bushwalkers organised through the Federation of Victorian Walking Clubs (now Bushwalking Victoria) assisted in a bush search.
The search for Alfred Howie, a solo walker missing at Wilsons Promontory, commenced on 6 May 1949. No trace of him was ever found. What happened to him?
His family recall one possibility discussed at the time. Given that his destination was Refugee Cove, he may have fallen off the slippery log crossing Sealers Creek at Sealers Cove, either at high tide or when the Creek was in flood and been washed out to sea.
The newspapers of the time tell the story.
Thank you to the family of Alfred Howie for sharing their recollections and records.
See “The Scroggin Eaters, A history of bushwalking in Victoria”; pp 183 to 190 for a detailed account of the search.