Man who spent two weeks lost in Queensland bush dropped 10 kg, says thoughts of his sons kept him going

It was a “moment of madness” in which Robert Weber was looking for a shortcut on his way home to Narangba from the Kilkivan Hotel on January 6, which led to his 18-day ordeal of survival in the Queensland bush.

On Sunday morning the 58-year-old was found by local MP and grazier, Tony Perrett, beside a dam where he had been living for nearly two weeks.

Mr Weber had been surviving on wild mushrooms and dam water.

On January 6, Mr Weber had taken a righthand turn off a main road and followed what he thought was the direction “the crow…