“She is still in disbelief that she was able to survive. In her mind, she had convinced herself she was not going to be located.”

“She’d been bitten by a lot of midgies. She said it was very, very cold.”

‘It can be quite dangerous’

“The area out there … it can be quite dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing or where you are going,” Securo said.

Wilga spent just one night with her van after it got bogged in dense bushland. Credit: AAP Image / Supplied by Western Australia Police.

Wilga has had a “good night’s sleep”, food and a shower since being found and had been left overwhelmed by the media attention.

“She still has so much travel to do here. I think if she has the ability to stay, she definitely will.”

Carolina Wilga “is still in disbelief that she was able to survive”, Western Australian Police detective acting inspector Jessica Securo said. Source: AAP / WA Police

Police are still trying to figure out how the van got into trouble, but said it appeared Wilga lost control trying to find a track.