Pair discover the ‘pit-falls’ of camping in heavy rains

There are plenty of travellers who have had their Big Lap plans affected by the torrential rains that have been falling in many parts of the country recently … but  perhaps none so dramatically as the overseas tourists who found their campervan sucked into a giant sinkhole!

The 53-year-old and 51-year-old Latvian couple were camping at Reflections Holiday Park at Clarkes Beach in Byron Bay last weekend when the drama unfolded.

The pair told police they were sleeping inside their Juicy Campervan when they felt it begin to shake in the early hours of the morning. Their vehicle then rolled into a large opening that had

A crane was used to extract the vehicle. PIC: Sunday Mail

formed in the ground.  The Sunday Mail reports that the fast flowing water caused by heavy rains had uprooted trees and caused a landslide.

The pair were not injured but were unable to retrieve their belongings from the sink hole-type crevasse that had formed until the following morning.