They had been away for nearly 30 minutes when Bianca returned. Bianca was hoping everything was well and her daughter was just having fun because Shayla enjoys a game of hide and seek.
But as time went on, it was obvious that wasn’t the situation. Local authorities in southern Tasmania immediately started searching the region based on how far a 4-year-old is anticipated to be able to travel after Bianca reported her daughter missing.
One of the missing dogs returned home unaided not long after the search got underway. The second dog was found 700 meters from their house after that. Unfortunately, Shayla was still nowhere to be found.
As the search reached its second day, tensions grew, but everyone involved remained unwavering in their commitment to finding this young girl. The moment they had been waiting for finally arrived when one group moved through a highly forested region on a hill.
Inspector Gavin Hallet stated, “We were dealing with a four-year-old girl. We knew we had to find her, and we had to do that crawling on hands and knees to locate her.” And SES (State Emergency Service) did that to find.
“Perhaps she had been lying down and just stuck her head up and she was seen,” he continued. We may still be doing this search if the SES volunteer had been searching to the left rather than the right. It was just at the correct location and time.
Shayla was thirsty, lost in the jungle after spending two nights alone there, and she missed her family, who came to get her as soon as they heard the news. Gavin claimed that when he told his mother, “she was very grateful and very keen [to see her].” “I told her to take a shower for a few minutes, but she didn’t seem to mind.
To see her kid, all she wanted to do was get in the car. As you might expect, Shayla’s mother-daughter reunion was described as “very emotional,” but it appears that their little village was just as delighted throughout the period the child was gone. Many people rejoiced when they heard that she had been found.
Everyone was really happy and shouting, according to Carey Sharman, a member of the Country Women’s Association. She and other team members assisted with feeding the search teams during the search.