{"id":709718,"date":"2026-06-02T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:19:10","slug":"quicksand-causes-terrifying-indiana-jones-moment-for-second-adelaide-beachgoer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709718\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicksand causes terrifying \u2018Indiana Jones moment\u2019 for second Adelaide beachgoer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second beachgoer has spoken out after becoming caught in quicksand along a stretch of Adelaide coast, saying she was momentarily overcome by “complete fear” before pushing herself out.<\/p>\n

Sarah Darbyshire was walking at Glenelg North on Saturday afternoon when she noticed her dog had started to sink into the surface.<\/p>\n

She quickly picked him up and moved him to another spot “where he then really sunk so I pulled him up, threw him and as I was doing that, I realised that I was going down”.<\/p>\n

“It was soon up to my waist and I just really pushed myself,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I remember thinking, ‘No, this is not how it’s going to end’, and I pushed myself out.<\/p>\n

“It was complete fear all through my body.”<\/p>\n

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Adelaide woman Sarah Darbyshire and her dog Mr Bean briefly became stuck in quicksand along a stretch of coast at Glenelg North. (Facebook: Sarah Darbyshire)<\/p>\n

The incident occurred days after Madz June was walking near the same spot and became stuck when her leg “fell straight through”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old tried to get herself out but had to call emergency services for help.<\/p>\n

Ms Darbyshire said she suspected the sinking sand had been caused by earthworks at the beach.<\/p>\n

The Department for Environment and Water confirmed sand carting had recently been conducted there.<\/p>\n

“Public safety signage was erected at every beach access pathway from Glenelg North to West Beach Boat Ramp before the work was carried out in the week of 27 April,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“That signage remains in place and the public is urged to take care during this stormy period.”<\/p>\n

Ms Darbyshire, who is a photographer, had been filming the beach on Saturday to show her daughter the impact of the sand carting, and inadvertently captured on camera the events that followed.<\/p>\n

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A sign warning about quicksand at Glenelg North. (Supplied: Madz June)<\/p>\n

“I just put my phone in my pocket, did not know it was still recording \u2014 and it was literally seconds,” she said.<\/p>\n

“How many people can say they’ve had a real Indiana Jones moment?”<\/p>\n

While she can laugh about the experience now, she said she shared the video on Facebook as a warning to others.<\/p>\n

“It was only when I got back to the car I realised I recorded \u2026 and I watched it and I thought, ‘Wow, some people need to know’, because it took everything in me to get me out, and if it was anyone else, with less strength, then it would be a whole different story,” she said.<\/p>\n

“If it was a little child \u2014 and easily you could turn your back for a couple of seconds\u2026”<\/p>\n

The department spokesperson said sand carting was a practice that occurred at the beach “every year”.<\/p>\n

“Natural beach sand is collected from where it accumulates at West Beach Harbour and placed at Glenelg North to raise beach levels,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“This annual work is vital to protect important coastal infrastructure, including the rock wall, roads and footpaths \u2026 and properties from winter storms, such as those forecast for this week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second beachgoer has spoken out after becoming caught in quicksand along a stretch of Adelaide coast, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,17713,345093,345094,44,11509,344339,80988,345092,2952,345091,345090],"class_list":["post-709718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beach","tag-carting","tag-madz-june","tag-news","tag-quick","tag-quicksand","tag-sand","tag-sarah-darbyshire","tag-signage","tag-sinking","tag-sinking-sand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}