Backpacking is popular in Australia.
A backpacker who went missing after visiting a Sydney beach has been found alive and well after a massive police search for her.
Estonian tourist Pirjo Kukk was on holiday backpacking around Australia and had been camping near to a popular Sydney beach at Elouera. She was reported as missing after some of her belongings were found abandoned on the beach and she failed to return to the campsite.
The last known sighting of her was by an Elouera beach lifeguard late on Tuesday afternoon. Police were contacted the following morning and immediately began a search and rescue operation for the missing tourist.
It is believed that she was on a working holiday in Australia and was a receptionist at a Woolloomooloo hostel. However she was not happy at the hostel, texting a friend, the Daily Telegraph reports, to say she was missing a shift to be stubborn.
Late yesterday afternoon Miss Kukk reportedly phoned a friend to pass on the message to police that she was safe and well. Her whereabouts is still unknown but police are no longer treating the incident as a missing person.
Backpacking is becoming increasingly popular in Australia, especially with Europeans. Many Europeans can get a working holiday visa that allows them to work and live in Australia for up to a year. Most backpackers find work in horticulture and viticulture but there are also jobs to be had in the many bars that line the city streets as well as hostels and hotels.
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3 Responses to “Backpacker Found Safe and Well in Australia”
Comment by Matt Todd — July 3, 2010 @ 6:11 am
She should be charged with littering and also be made to pay back all the money spent on the search for her.
Comment by STevo — July 4, 2010 @ 12:57 am
She must have known there was a sea ground and air search looking for her. It took her days to tell anyone she was OK. Hundreds of people were involved in the search. She was only suburbs away. Not really overly endowed with smarts.
Comment by Meeri — July 4, 2010 @ 10:17 am
They are messing with facts in this article. She texted to her EMPLOYER a very strange message which clearly shows that she wasn’t herself that day. After all, her colleagues said that she’d been acting weird lately. Secondly, the police is aware of her location and she is being questioned by the police as to here whereabouts over the last couple of days.