Sarah was amused by the quicksand she stepped in on a South Australian beach. Then ‘reality set in’

“I’ve literally had my real, live Indiana Jones moment,” Sarah Darbyshire says of the frightening moment she and her dog stumbled into quicksand . The Holdfast Bay council has put up signs warning about the treacherous, liquefied patch on Glenelg North beach in South Australia . Indiana Jones famously used his bullwhip to save himself from tricky situations, while in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull he is thrown a snake (an animal he is notoriously afraid of) to pull himself out of quicksand. Darbyshire says she was videoing her beach walk with her maltese dog, Mr Bean, to show her daughter how the hills they had been climbing a few days previously had been flattened. Sarah Darbyshire with her dog Mr Bean at Glenelg North beach in South Australia. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/The Guardian At first, she was amused by the sucking sand. Then, “reality sank in”. “I couldn’t believe how quick I went down. Pulling one leg out, you just went in deeper,” she says. In a video, her feet and her dog can be seen sinking into the sand. “Shit,” she says repeatedly, along with “oh my God”. Recalling the moment, she says: “I know I meant to say ‘this is not how I’m going to go’”. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email While Darbyshire managed to extricate herself without a snake or a bullwhip, another woman – Madz June – needed four police officers and five firefighters to pull her out at the same spot. …