What happened to his horse?
That was my very first thought too!
just a guess, but the horse probably found its way back home, which prompted the search.
I was wondering the same thing.
The rancher probably didn’t know since he was knocked unconscious. It would figure that the horse either ran away or entered into the food chain.
My best guess is that the horse got away because if those crocs made a meal out of him, the crocs would have been too full to care about the rancher in the tree.
WHo cares? The real story here is that the Aussies are UNARMED due to their government being a bunch of wussies. Liberals make the people in the outback dependent on snuff tin lids and maybe a sharp stick for defense/rescue.
A small caliber pistol would have made short work of those
crockagators or allidiles......
BANG