A Queensland bushwalker who crawled through bushland for two days after breaking his leg faces a long recovery.
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Neil Parker, 54, says he had to "carry" his leg for two days before help arrived after plunging from a waterfall in bushland north of Brisbane at the weekend.
"I had to carry my leg, and legs are very heavy when they're not connected to anything, and trying to pick it up and get over rocks," Mr Parker said before undergoing surgery on Wednesday.
"I would get about a metre, a metre-and-a-half before I needed a break."
Mr Parker, who is an experienced guide with Brisbane Bushwalkers, splinted his leg with snake bite bandages and walking poles from his kit.
He said adrenaline kept him going after feeling his foot "break in half" and the "whole bottom of my leg came loose" in the fall.
Mr Parker said he wasn't carrying an emergency beacon and his mobile phone was wrecked.
He said he fell while climbing a waterfall he's climbed a number of times in the past.
"I slid about 20 feet, cartwheeled and slammed into the rock and then landed in the creek on the bottom," he said.
Australian Associated Press