Puddles and leaves sustain man on survival trek LARRY Read had been walking for 2 1/2 days in the punishing heat that comes with the full force of a Kimberley wet season when Nick Blegharn and other residents of the Ringers Soak Aboriginal community saw him staggering on the side of a dirt road. Mr Read said he'd been drinking from puddles and chewing on mimosa leaves as he made his way along the dirt road locals call "The Duncan," trying to get help for his five young nieces and nephews and his brother, John Gillboy, left behind at their broken-down car.