SA: Lost teenage girls have learned their lesson: ranger

AAP General News (Australia)
01-02-2000
SA: Lost teenage girls have learned their lesson: ranger

By Toni Jupe

ADELAIDE, Jan 2 AAP - Three teenage girls who went missing overnight in rugged bush
south of Adelaide had learned their lesson about getting off the beaten track, a park
ranger said.

The three 16-year-olds, from the Adelaide Hills town of Strathalbyn, had "smiles from
ear to ear" when they were spotted by helicopter 23 hours after leaving their camp, the
ranger said.

They had to be winched out of inaccessible scrub near an unused track, perilously close
to cliffs and rocks in the Deep Creek Conservation Park, on the …