Cyclist clinging to reeds, plucked to safety in remote Snowy River rescue

The cyclist was clinging to reeds in the middle of the Snowy River when the police air wing plucked them to safety. 

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I once fell asleep due to not eating/drinking enough on a roundabout in Milton Keynes! Police were good about it and insisted on coming with me to nearest supermarket.

My Dad (via cellphone) once had to map-read me home on a convoluted route when the River Riding burst its banks and I thought I was stuck. He knew the area backwards and was able to route me out on higher land

@MatthewNewell @ascentale @bikenite #bikenite I seriously underestimated a ride recently, thankfully a passing traveler filled up my water bottles[*] but I spent many kilometers wishing for a banana or a peanut butter sandwich ... and when I got to the coast road there was a shop selling banana and peanut butter smoothies[**], which I decided was a good omen and that smoothie rescued me :-)

[*] there was tank water I could have filtered, but it was pretty nasty looking and piss-warm from the sun ... thanks Jan from somewhere near Hamburg for the fresh clean water ...

[**] Anglesea General Store, pretty decent coffee too, just as well because it's a fair climb back towards Torquay ...

@nickzoic Anglesea and Torquay in proximity messing with my British geography. :)

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Not often distances in Australia are less than in Britain.

Torquay and Anglesea, Victoria seem to be about 21km apart.

Torquay (England ) and Anglesey (Wales) are more like 600km.

Wonder when the spelling changed