The area home to 60 people is 40km (approx 25 miles) north of where this little boy went missing.
Unless the station buildings (homestead and sheds) had security cameras of their own, there is no CCTV.
At a push there could possibly have been game cameras on the property, if the pastoral board were doing surveying or something but that’d be a long shot and if so would have been checked days ago.
I’m very familiar with properties like these, have lived on multiple and it’s unfortunately very possible for a little one to wander off and go unseen. As a teenager I had a younger sibling go missing, Mum had gone for a walk, Dad thought I was watching the little ones and I thought Dad was watching the little ones. Mum returned home, the 2 year old was missing. We searched for 45 minutes around dusk. Our property had a creek at one end, a dirt road at another leading to a heavily used but remote highway.
We found the two year old nearly 3kms from where they’d left (within the 45 minute timeframe we realised they were missing, might have been gone 60 minutes at the most) walking parallel to, but 100 metres off the road in the bush. They were barefoot, wearing only a striped T shirt, no shoes, pants or nappy. Not crying out or distressed or even appearing to be searching around, just wandering.
They’d crossed a dip in the road with 20cm of water sitting in it, and had walked uphill, quite steep, for at least 800m. We could not believe they’d made it that far (which is why we hadn’t searched that far in the first place, not expecting them to have crossed a wash out in the road, let alone trekked uphill for as far as they’d gone).
Such a horrific feeling. This poor family and that poor kid. I’m hoping for a Cleo Smith-esque miracle but it would be so hard to stay positive in the family and search teams’ shoes.
