However, we do know that by early 1983 the post was gone, with intrepid correspondent Philip Castle, who was seemingly oblivious to its role in crippling the Wessex chopper, reporting in The Canberra Times of February 13 that year “we were disappointed not to be able to find it. Another visitor had queried its whereabouts in the [log]book, and we could only assume it had been vandalised”.